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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25 Almost Identical Logos http://www.inspiredm.com/2011/02/08/identical-logos/ via @RomeliaArp check swiss airforce… embarassing
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The Oltcit logo rulz :)
wow thx for that article
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Check dit trouwens, http://www.inspiredm.com/2011/02/08/identical-logos/
Oltcit rox ;)
Some of these can’t be legal.
Nice article!
RT @Arjen93: Check dit trouwens, http://www.inspiredm.com/2011/02/08/identical-logos/ < Die was voor @jazzdebruin
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nice one dude. a few surprises in there.
Joe la pompe http://www.inspiredm.com/2011/02/08/identical-logos/
You can add the Beats By Dre logo to #3.
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.
RT @szymonblaszczyk: Logos & all these “similarities” http://www.inspiredm.com/2011/02/08/identical-logos/
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!
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The Nike and Li-Ning logos didn’t really feel “almost identical” to me.
Anyone else agree/disagree?
tot mai faina decat Dacia ;)
25 Almost Identical Logos http://www.inspiredm.com/2011/02/08/identical-logos/
Omg crazy how much some look like eachother
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incredible!!!
Where is the NBC logo from? Never saw that.
What is the original source of #7 (“Believe”)? Only Britney Spears’ Believe is noted.
I agree I dont feel the Nike logo is anything identical to the one posted.
Bacardi and Swiss air force are way too similar to be just a coincidence…
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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”!
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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…
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http://www.inspiredm.com/2011/02/08/identical-logos/ gut geklaut ist halb gewonnen!
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Really cool! The best example is the Bonus: Star Trek vs. Oltcit. Wtf is Oltcit???
25 logos quase idênticos … http://www.inspiredm.com/2011/02/08/identical-logos/
Logos que le copian a logos http://www.inspiredm.com/2011/02/08/identical-logos/
This is an amazing comparison …i can’t believe that there are no rules to limit this!
RT @_bruno_almeida: 25 logos quase idênticos … http://www.inspiredm.com/2011/02/08/identical-logos/
Altijd knap, ‘inspirerende’ logo’s… of theft, kiest u maar: http://www.inspiredm.com/2011/02/08/identical-logos/
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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”.
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Wereld(on)bekende logo’s als inspiratie of diefstal? > http://www.inspiredm.com/2011/02/08/identical-logos/
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25 very similar logos… Coincidence?
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logos parecidos, muy parecidos http://bit.ly/g50z4s << via ateneu popular
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5 6 8 9 12 are basic shapes. bound to happen.
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How is the google rip-off not illegal? It is the same font, shadow, color, etc.
“Citroën Prototype Y” ‘coz there are many many Citroën prototypes
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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 ????
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