This is a guest post by Alexandru Cruceanu – co-founder of Top Design Magazine – online outlet about everything design. He likes to write articles and to share his obsession for graphic design.
I really don’t know if it’s inspiration or theft but it sure is fun to observe all these “similarities”:
1. Google and Goojje:
2. VOLVO and Quicktime
3. British Paints and Pagan Osborne
4. NBC and Nebraska ETV Network
5. Belfast City and South Hams Food & Drink
6. Blackburn Market and Barrow
7. Britney Spears’ believe
8. Quark, Alcone, Scottish Arts Council and Artworkers:
9. DoshDosh and David Airey
10. Carrier and Ford
11. BMW and BYD
12. FDA and SEGA and CNN
13. Toyota (Japan) vs Jincheng (China)
14. PEPSI and Korean Airline
15. One Spa, One, Penzeys One
16. Sun Microsystems and Columbia Sportswear
17. Sinar Mas and Airbus
18. Unilever and Swiat Zdrowia
19. Bacardi and Swiss air force logo:
20. Quiznos Sub and New Quest
21. Starbucks’ Coffee and Boulder’s Coffee Lounge
22. Harrods and Holland’s Café lounge
23. The Common Guild and Commonwealth Games
24. Victoria School of Business and Technology and Apple
25. Nike and Li-Ning
25. Bonus
This is something you won’t find anywhere else – the Oltcit romanian car had almost the same logo with Star Trek! The Oltcit was a Romanian car developed in co-operation with Citroën in the 1980s. It is a small three-door hatchback, based on the Citroën Prototype.
Oltcit logo :
Star Trek logo:
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Catalin Red February 8, 2011
The Oltcit logo rulz :)
Fredrik February 8, 2011
wow thx for that article
paramah February 8, 2011
Oltcit rox ;)
Aaron Richardson February 8, 2011
Some of these can’t be legal.
Nice article!
pearl February 8, 2011
nice one dude. a few surprises in there.
Jody Collins February 8, 2011
You can add the Beats By Dre logo to #3.
Sepp February 9, 2011
The swiss air force badge is definitly not the Official one. You can make these (Company badges) easily on your own in the swiss military and someone was rather drinking Bacardy than flying.
Sherry February 9, 2011
Ok the Bacardi and the Swiss Air Force one totally got to us – so we went on a mission trying to find another instance of that particular patch. We couldn’t find one, but we did find a NATO ISAF that is similar: http://www.bathead.com/German/NATOISAFKabul.jpg
I do love the Oltcit one, WIN!
Erin February 9, 2011
The Nike and Li-Ning logos didn’t really feel “almost identical” to me.
Anyone else agree/disagree?
Rob February 9, 2011
tot mai faina decat Dacia ;)
designbastard.com February 9, 2011
Omg crazy how much some look like eachother
Fernando February 9, 2011
incredible!!!
Mike February 9, 2011
Where is the NBC logo from? Never saw that.
What is the original source of #7 (“Believe”)? Only Britney Spears’ Believe is noted.
Arizona web designer February 9, 2011
I agree I dont feel the Nike logo is anything identical to the one posted.
Fábián Gábor February 9, 2011
Bacardi and Swiss air force are way too similar to be just a coincidence…
Split February 10, 2011
Quicktime and Volvo, what do you find identical in these logos? The circle form? One is the lettre Q of Quicktime the other is the Male Gender sign (http://www.psdgraphics.com/file/male-gender-sign.jpg)
Goojje is a copy/parody of the google logo.
Nike and Li-Ning: nothing identical here.
Swiis Air Force seems to be a FAKE : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Air_Force;
Pepsi: You should take the old logo for compare!
Starbucks Coffee: just some more copies -> http://www.brandchannel.com/home/image.axd?picture=2010%2f9%2fstarbucks+logos.png
Apple and VSBT: it’s no because apple uses an apple as their logo that no one else can use an apple in other way… The fruit apple is not a trademark of “Apple”!
Bubka February 10, 2011
Die Hälfte der Logos sind Fakes, was machen die in der Liste? Hat der Autor die jemals geprüft? Das mit dem Nike-Logo hat nicht den Hauch von Ähnlichkeit…
Ray February 11, 2011
Really cool! The best example is the Bonus: Star Trek vs. Oltcit. Wtf is Oltcit???
Michael February 11, 2011
This is an amazing comparison …i can’t believe that there are no rules to limit this!
Anders February 13, 2011
Oltcit was a licence built Citroën Visa – therefor their logo is in some way okay…I guess :o) Half a Citroën logo plus an “O”.
illz February 15, 2011
5 6 8 9 12 are basic shapes. bound to happen.
Atlanta Designer February 16, 2011
How is the google rip-off not illegal? It is the same font, shadow, color, etc.
Andrei February 16, 2011
“Citroën Prototype Y” ‘coz there are many many Citroën prototypes
Rana April 2, 2011
God how can we protect our ideas for life time and if I am one of these brand owners what shall I say to convince this duplicator that this is my logo and you mimicking it ????