“Crime doesn’t pay”? LogoGarden proves an old saying wrong by obtaining 2 million dollars worth in financing, even after having been rightfully accused of design theft all over the internet.

Lately, LogoGarden has been all over the internet, including our blog. You may remember our article on this infamous company (http://blog.logobee.com/?p=961) in which we discuss its habit of lifting logo design from other logo designers and offering it to their clients for cheap.

This is an update to that twisted real life tale, and the happy ending every honest logo designer desires is still all too far away. The villains have not been vanquished, they prosper more than ever. Instead of bringing them to justice, all the attention the internet community has paid to their thieving ways has not only bumped them to the first page of the Google search for “logo design”, but… also granted them 2M dollars as well? Where is justice in this world?

Indeed, as evidenced by this article: http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/logogarden-closes-2-million-financing-201800835.html, LogoGarden has recently received 2 million dollars worth in financing from FCA Venture Partners V “to [take] growth to a new level.” Now, that’s all fine and dandy, but I can’t help but question the reasoning behind FCA’s investment. Mainly, why in a name would you give 2 millions to a group of thieves who have in the past attempted to sell the WWF panda of all things to unsuspecting customers?!

Has FCA Venture Partners even checked the internet at all before investing such massive amounts in LogoGarden? Surely if they had done that, they would have found that LogoGarden’s selection consists primarily of hundreds of stolen and ever-so-slightly modified logos, including some from famous designers – as I mentioned previously, complaints against their thievery are all over the internet! Surely that ought to have alerted them, right? Truly, I don’t have an explanation for this. What an enormous blunder on part of FCA!

And it is so having stolen countless logos from innocent hard-working designers, LogoGarden was rewarded with 2 million dollars and lived happily ever after. The end. As member of LogoBee, a logo design company which actually CREATES logos rather than stealing them, which has had at least six logos swiped by LogoGarden, I am depressed, revulsed and offended to learn that a 2M dollar financing has been offered to a bunch of thieves.

 Keep this article away from young kids, for the moral of this tale is not child-friendly: LogoGarden has proven that crime DOES pay.

Is any design that looks somewhat like yours necessarily stolen from you? When to be genuinely alarmed, and when to calm down?

As you might know, Logo Bee has been at the receiving end of logo design theft and we have no mercy for thieves. For instance, LogoGarden, the company that has swiped a multitude of logo designs straight from other designers and sold them to clients barely tweaking a line or two. Nevertheless, there is only so many concepts in existance, and the same general idea for a logo might appear in two unrelated works by accident. Continue reading »

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Some alleged logo design companies, such as Logo Garden, blatantly rip off logos from other logo designers and sell them as their own.

You wouldn’t steal a purse.

You wouldn’t steal a watch.

But would you steal a logo?

For “logo design company” Logo Garden, the answer, sadly, is yes. Design association AIGA.com alerts us that this company’s list of logos for sale consists primarily of stolen logos. The list of victims includes designers such as Bill Gardner and LogoBee itself. Heck, Logo Garden even goes as far as taking a stab at ripping the WWF panda and the famous Democratic donkey. Continue reading »

Can you hear the bells toll?

Today, the logo design profession has died. Alright, fine, it has not died yet per se, but a very severe blow has definitely been dealt to it. If something is not done, this blow could even turn out to be mortal.

What happened, exactly? Well, it appears that the US Department of the Interior has decided to crowdsource a logo design. We have already spoken of crowdsourcing in our blog previously. So you know the dangers. You know the immorality of it. You know that, despite that, it’s currently the most popular way to get logos. And now, you know that even the US Government, of all things, is at it.

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Risto-Jussi Isopahkala’s project “Logo Tourist” invites us to see famous landmarks in a whole new light.

Risto-Jussi Isopahkala’s project “Logo Tourist” invites us to see famous landmarks in a whole new light.

What if the Eiffel Tower was made not of metal bars, but of pieces shaped like Xerox’ iconic pixilated X-shaped logo, crowned with Budweiser Anheuser-Busch’s logo, with the A and the eagle? What if the Louvre was made of AIG, GAP, Caterpillar, Adidas logos?

What if you built an entire city made of nothing but the symbols of the most successful brands? Continue reading »

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Each logo design was created by LogoBee designers using Adobe Illustrator. They are provided free of charge for you to download in scalable vector format (Adobe Illustrator CS3). Click the picture of a logo to download it.  For more freebies, check out LogoBee’s first free logos collection here:

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Logo #7: A series of hills with a church in the distance, a single star gently shining in the skies above. The outwards shape of the logo suggests a cross or perhaps a star. Peace and quiet are conveyed by the smooth colors and curvy lines of the logo, making it an ideal choice for a church. Continue reading »

Back when it was announced that Rio de Janeiro would host the 2016 Olympic games, their candidate logo was quite frankly a bit strange. In fact, I don’t quite understand what was it meant to represent. My best guess is that it’s probably a weird hybrid between a heart and some kind of flower. Of course, it might also have been some kind of insect. Or two headless people hugging a reversed pine tree. Seriously, people should not be taking lessons from the London Olympics logo already discussed on this very blog. Non harmonious shapes, strange coloring and awkward positioning, Rio’s candidate logo was not quite as bad as London’s pile of scrap, but close up there. Continue reading »

In part 1 of this blog post series, we looked at the process of developing a brief for a graphic logo design project. Asking the right questions in order to build up a scope for the project is a crucial first step for the graphic designer, who needs to obtain enough information about the company, its values and the image it wishes to portray, to be able to develop a striking and instantly recognizable logo. There inevitably comes a point in this process however, where the designer needs to start actually designing, so what happens next?
While each graphic designer has their own modus operandi, the design process generally starts with a good old fashioned sketch. Forget your Photoshops and your Illustrators for the time being, a graphic designer’s real best friend at this stage is a 2B pencil and a piece of paper. Continue reading »

It’s always a risky move for any corporation to change its logo, and when internationally known clothing retailer Gap tried it recently, they soon learned that the customer is always right!
With industry experts suggesting that Gap was feeling out of touch with its client base in these times of economic crisis, a Gap spokesperson said that “after 20 years, it was time for change”. It was out with capital letters and a serif typeface, and in with Helvetica logotype and a blue gradient box design element – to the outcry of graphic designers and members of the public all over the world.  Continue reading »