This isn’t exactly another copycat. Anyone remember the post back in March about some outfit holding ebay logo auctions, using purloined designs from our site as examples of their work? (Read the comments section for the lovely chat I had with the site owner). Suitably chastised, they removed the graphics from ebay but, and as hard as I find it to believe, they then turned around and added them to their main website ‘portfolio’. Just pinched the image (without noting the irony) from our logo copyright page. Didn’t resize it. Didn’t rename it. Just threw it up on their site. How did they find this image in the first place? Well, just so happens it’s on the front page if you do a Google Image search for the keywords ‘logo design’.
You can color me gobsmacked. If that wasn’t bad enough, the other set of logos featured in their portfolio’ (well, technically it isn’t their portfolio) were pinched from Australian web and design company Netstarter. How did they end up pinching logos from some Australian design company? Well, the image from Netstarter is number one when you run a Google Image search using the keywords ‘logo samples’.
Ironically, on the same page they make this somewhat startling claim -
We have created and maintained over 10,000 custom logo’s for businesses ranging from the self employed to larger corporations with thousands of employees.
See, that’s where I get kinda lost. If a company, that supposedly offers design services, has created tens of thousands of ‘custom logos‘ then why, on a logo design portfolio page, do they only feature 27 designs, all of which were designed by somebody else? I realize I’m a stickler for details, but…
For related tomfoolery, see our Logo Design Copycats section. Found some of our work being displayed on a website that isn’t ours? Tell us about it.
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This information is Incorrect. That section of our website was already in place when the ebay auctions were started. When I learned of the mistake I immediately pulled the info from the ebay pages. I didn’t even think of the website until I received sarcastic letters from The Logo Factory reminding me. Further more our company name and website is being used without our permission here on this blog. We are taking measures to have it removed.