Attention: similar Comic Genesis logo found

Faceless · Post by **Faceless** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 7:59 am

I was searching around the internet for a website on 3D modelling and I found a site that has been on the net since 2002 it seems, and is very well established.

Just look at that classy logo in the top left: http://www.cgsociety.org/

After looking at that wonderful logo, I started to think... Doesn't that look a little like ours? And what should we do about this?

... Ignore it?
... Make a new logo?
... Destroy the website?
... See if they'll allow us to use our similar logo?

I'll leave this to open discussion with you guys.

Cortland · Post by **Cortland** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 8:10 am

I wouldn't worry about it. Their design is significantly different from the ComicGenesis logo, so they wouldn't likely win a suit over branding confusion. The font is definitely similar, but that's even less likely to be a problem.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 9:17 am

Nothing to see here people.... move along....

CaptainClaude · Post by **CaptainClaude** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:37 am

I dont like it, I dont like it one bit...

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:56 am

Faceless wrote:I was searching around the internet for a website on 3D modelling and I found a site that has been on the net since 2002 it seems, and is very well established.

Just look at that classy logo in the top left: http://www.cgsociety.org/

After looking at that wonderful logo, I started to think... Doesn't that look a little like ours? And what should we do about this?

... Ignore it?
... Make a new logo?
... Destroy the website?
... See if they'll allow us to use our similar logo?

I'll leave this to open discussion with you guys.

DESTROY!

Vorticus · Post by **Vorticus** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 11:18 am

legostargalactica wrote:
Faceless wrote:I was searching around the internet for a website on 3D modelling and I found a site that has been on the net since 2002 it seems, and is very well established.

Just look at that classy logo in the top left: http://www.cgsociety.org/

After looking at that wonderful logo, I started to think... Doesn't that look a little like ours? And what should we do about this?

... Ignore it?
... Make a new logo?
... Destroy the website?
... See if they'll allow us to use our similar logo?

I'll leave this to open discussion with you guys.
DESTROY!

KILL! MAIM!

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 11:18 am

I thought it looked oddly like our own. Strange.

CaptainClaude · Post by **CaptainClaude** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:02 pm

It's pretty much identical, cept we dont have a red circle thing, and they dont have the glowing.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:09 pm

The glowing is the special!

CaptainClaude · Post by **CaptainClaude** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:23 pm

I hates the glowing.

RPin · Post by **RPin** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:33 pm

I called for the attention that the logo looked similar to this brazilian company, but heck, this is almost identical.

Tough luck we have...

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:09 am

[Looks Joel's way...]

We weren't doing any copying, were we?

Plothole · Post by **Plothole** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:17 am

I seriously doubt that he did. Its just an unlikely coincidence, nothing more.

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:26 am

Jackhass wrote:[Looks Joel's way...]

We weren't doing any copying, were we?

No we were not. I have all the designs that led up to the final one as... Well, not proof, I suppose, but evidence.

Damn, but that is awfully similar. I was expecting a superficial resemblence and was all ready with a speech about how, really, no logo is completely unqiue and there's bound to be something similar to everything somewhere.

But that... Goddamn.

I did check, on the off-chance, to see if I could find when the logo was introduced. I figured if it was recent, it'd have some mention of it. Anyway: no. Couldn't find anything.

Seems to be convergent evolution. Makes sense. The letters must be that way around to be read as being those letters and CG is THE term for such artwork... Someone just happened to think along the same lines.

- Joel Fagin

ShineDog · Post by **ShineDog** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:11 am

its in there court now i guess.

Fadri · Post by **Fadri** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 3:17 am

Covergent evolution... Wow... O.O

Somewhere, far away in the Universe, an alien race which seems exactly like the humans could exist!

And they could design the same CG logo as well!!! xD

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 8:15 am

Fadri wrote:And they could design the same CG logo as well!!! xD

Twice!!

Princess · Post by **Princess** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:29 pm

we should steal their logo, I think it is swank

Crazy Chris · Post by **Crazy Chris** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 8:35 pm

Vorticus wrote:
legostargalactica wrote:
Faceless wrote:I was searching around the internet for a website on 3D modelling and I found a site that has been on the net since 2002 it seems, and is very well established.

Just look at that classy logo in the top left: http://www.cgsociety.org/

After looking at that wonderful logo, I started to think... Doesn't that look a little like ours? And what should we do about this?

... Ignore it?
... Make a new logo?
... Destroy the website?
... See if they'll allow us to use our similar logo?

I'll leave this to open discussion with you guys.
DESTROY!
KILL! MAIM!

PIE!

Post by **STrRedWolf** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 9:35 pm

I too see the similarities, but they're rather generic to me -- I've seen similar in college chemistry departments. Nothing new, any trademark is probably diluted by now.

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