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You appear to be using the logo form of Sparkasse, a relatively large German bank. http://www.sparkasse.de http://www.sparkasse.de

by redbad 13y ago

cdvonstinkpot 13y ago
That logo design came from a Crowdspring contest where I paid over $4,000 for a package of designs. There was no way I could've known it was lifted from their design. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I'll contact Crowdspring & let them know- maybe I can get my $4,000 back.
- attheodo 13y ago
  You paid over $4k for a logo and you don't know what to do with $3k? Oh boy.. I'd say spend them all on a bullish equity and get a good ol' day job
- jjsz 13y ago
  Next time use 99designs.com/.
- yogo 13y ago
  $4k for a logo to put on a website that looks like that? I hope this thread makes a fantastic case study for others. There are small businesses out there that are generating revenue, making profits, and wouldn't blow that money on a logo. This should have come in later when improving your brand image as part of some marketing initiative.
- lobster_johnson 13y ago
  The logo is arguably the least important part of your business, especially in terms of prioritizing the sequence of necessary investments. You should not be spending so much money on design this early.
- Cardeck1 13y ago
  I must ask..What do you do for a living?I mean, in all honesty, you look like a gardener trying to build a spaceship. You have no idea what you're doing.If it was a contest how come you paid for the package?
- gus_massa 13y ago
  The logo is not equal. I think that it was not copied. Your logo has rounded sides, but the bank's logo has vertical sides with rounded corners. Maybe it was only an honest similar design based on the letter S. Anyway it's too similar and it can make the bank's layers unhappy. (But in this moment, the logo is not your biggest problem.)
- timharding 13y ago
  Our entire cash outlay, pre-revenue, not including founders time, was about £1,000. We bought a VM, a domain name, a copy of Flash to build an little interactive game our domain required and paid some admin fees on content we acquired. We made up our first logo, 10 minutes in Photoshop—it was as ugly as sin but it didn't matter. We lived with a VM because there was going to be no load on our servers until we had traffic. The really expensive bit was the time me and my co-founder put in. To a degree, if you don't factor lifestyle (and you should), we're still recouping that.
genwin 13y ago
Considering the simplicity and mostly just an "S" I'd have to see almost exactly the same logo to think it's infringement. These logos are not so similar.

You appear to be using the logo form of Sparkasse, a relatively large German bank. http://www.sparkasse.de http://www.sparkasse.de

by redbad 13y ago

You appear to be using the logo form of Sparkasse, a relatively large German bank. http://www.sparkasse.de http://www.sparkasse.de

cdvonstinkpot 13y ago

That logo design came from a Crowdspring contest where I paid over $4,000 for a package of designs. There was no way I could've known it was lifted from their design. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I'll contact Crowdspring & let them know- maybe I can get my $4,000 back.

attheodo 13y ago
You paid over $4k for a logo and you don't know what to do with $3k? Oh boy.. I'd say spend them all on a bullish equity and get a good ol' day job
jjsz 13y ago
Next time use 99designs.com/.
yogo 13y ago
$4k for a logo to put on a website that looks like that? I hope this thread makes a fantastic case study for others. There are small businesses out there that are generating revenue, making profits, and wouldn't blow that money on a logo. This should have come in later when improving your brand image as part of some marketing initiative.
lobster_johnson 13y ago
The logo is arguably the least important part of your business, especially in terms of prioritizing the sequence of necessary investments. You should not be spending so much money on design this early.
Cardeck1 13y ago
I must ask..What do you do for a living?I mean, in all honesty, you look like a gardener trying to build a spaceship. You have no idea what you're doing.If it was a contest how come you paid for the package?
gus_massa 13y ago
The logo is not equal. I think that it was not copied. Your logo has rounded sides, but the bank's logo has vertical sides with rounded corners. Maybe it was only an honest similar design based on the letter S. Anyway it's too similar and it can make the bank's layers unhappy. (But in this moment, the logo is not your biggest problem.)
timharding 13y ago
Our entire cash outlay, pre-revenue, not including founders time, was about £1,000. We bought a VM, a domain name, a copy of Flash to build an little interactive game our domain required and paid some admin fees on content we acquired. We made up our first logo, 10 minutes in Photoshop—it was as ugly as sin but it didn't matter. We lived with a VM because there was going to be no load on our servers until we had traffic. The really expensive bit was the time me and my co-founder put in. To a degree, if you don't factor lifestyle (and you should), we're still recouping that.

genwin 13y ago

Considering the simplicity and mostly just an "S" I'd have to see almost exactly the same logo to think it's infringement. These logos are not so similar.