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http://99designs.com/logo-design/store/1152 http://99designs.com/logo-design/store/1152 This is the Windows logo rotated 1/4 counter clockwise and skewed sligh

by phsr 17y ago

http://99designs.com/logo-design/store/1152 http://99designs.com/logo-design/store/1152 This is the Windows logo rotated 1/4 counter clockwise and skewed slightly...Hopefully they have some sort of way of reporting/dealing with issues like this (aka image stolen from somewhere else)

jfornear 17y ago
It looks like there's a "Report this logo" link at the bottom of the page
- phsr 17y ago
  I reported the logo, as its 5am there, I dont expect to hear from them til later, but I'm curious of the process for an artist that gets ripped off. Something like the example I listed is easy to take care of (we know windows had it first)
  - lox 17y ago
    Thanks we got the report and are on it. We do have an approval process for these logos, but sometimes things like this slip through the cracks. We take reports seriously and act on them as quickly as we can. - Lachlan, CTO, 99designs.com
  - wildmXranat 17y ago
    It seems to be gone now.
efsavage 17y ago
Note the submitter's username...
leftnode 17y ago
Ironically from a user named be.unique.
adoyle 17y ago
At least they are equal-opportunity. http://99designs.com/logo-design/store/2372 http://99designs.com/logo-design/store/2372 is pretty close to Ubuntu. Even if you're working on a design with designers working from scratch, you have to watch out for things like this. One of the designs someone did for one of my projects wound up being pretty nearly a copy of the Space Imaging logo.
- tjr 17y ago
  I wonder where the line is between being a copy of another design and not. Just in this 99designs logo store alone we have examples of thousands of logo designs. If someone where to sit down and make a new logo design, what are the odds it would be noticeable similar to one of these? In programming, we have "design patterns" and such, that no-one would argue "hey, you copied me!" over. What about design patterns in logo design? I'm not a logo designer, but I find it hard to believe that each and every logo design is, or plausibly could be, designed entirely from scratch.

by phsr 17y ago

jfornear 17y ago

It looks like there's a "Report this logo" link at the bottom of the page

phsr 17y ago
I reported the logo, as its 5am there, I dont expect to hear from them til later, but I'm curious of the process for an artist that gets ripped off. Something like the example I listed is easy to take care of (we know windows had it first)
- lox 17y ago
  Thanks we got the report and are on it. We do have an approval process for these logos, but sometimes things like this slip through the cracks. We take reports seriously and act on them as quickly as we can. - Lachlan, CTO, 99designs.com
- wildmXranat 17y ago
  It seems to be gone now.

efsavage 17y ago

Note the submitter's username...

leftnode 17y ago

Ironically from a user named be.unique.

adoyle 17y ago

At least they are equal-opportunity. http://99designs.com/logo-design/store/2372 http://99designs.com/logo-design/store/2372 is pretty close to Ubuntu. Even if you're working on a design with designers working from scratch, you have to watch out for things like this. One of the designs someone did for one of my projects wound up being pretty nearly a copy of the Space Imaging logo.

tjr 17y ago
I wonder where the line is between being a copy of another design and not. Just in this 99designs logo store alone we have examples of thousands of logo designs. If someone where to sit down and make a new logo design, what are the odds it would be noticeable similar to one of these? In programming, we have "design patterns" and such, that no-one would argue "hey, you copied me!" over. What about design patterns in logo design? I'm not a logo designer, but I find it hard to believe that each and every logo design is, or plausibly could be, designed entirely from scratch.