{"id":2073,"date":"2016-04-29T20:08:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T20:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2016-06-20T11:43:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T11:43:55","slug":"logo-look-alikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2016\/04\/logo-look-alikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Logo look-alikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few days ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spencerchen\">Spencer Chen<\/a>\u00a0posted this picture on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spencerchen\/status\/725114098107609089\">Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spencerchen\/status\/725114098107609089\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2074\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/logo-inspiration-1024x293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/logo-inspiration.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/logo-inspiration-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/logo-inspiration-768x220.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and commented:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nothing is original, esp. in <a class=\"twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/design?src=hash\" data-query-source=\"hashtag_click\"><s>#<\/s>design<\/a>. (btw, these are NOT the logos of Medium, AirBNB, Flipboard, and Beats)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. Spencer&#8217;s photograph contains the names of\u00a0the institutions those logos belong(ed) to: a publishing company, a drive-in, an oil company and a city in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>These, however, are the logos of Medium, Airbnb, Flipboad and Beats:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2079 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Medium-logo-e1461960362700.png\" alt=\"Medium-logo\" width=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Medium-logo-e1461960362700.png 350w, https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Medium-logo-e1461960362700-300x250.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2075 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Airbnb-logo-e1461960399757.png\" alt=\"Airbnb-logo\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Airbnb-logo-e1461960399757.png 936w, https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Airbnb-logo-e1461960399757-300x272.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Airbnb-logo-e1461960399757-768x696.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2078\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Flipboard-logo.png\" alt=\"Flipboard-logo\" width=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Flipboard-logo.png 250w, https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Flipboard-logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Flipboard-logo-160x160.png 160w, https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Flipboard-logo-320x320.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2077\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Beats-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Beats-logo\" width=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Beats-logo.jpg 716w, https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Beats-logo-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A nice reminder that no\u00a0idea is guaranteed to be original!<\/p>\n<p>If\u00a0the\u00a0nature of creativity interests you, consider checking out these:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"XZIyDTG94E\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2012\/04\/everything-is-a-remix-presumably-also-this-title\/\">&#8220;Everything is a remix&#8221;, presumably also this title<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2012\/04\/everything-is-a-remix-presumably-also-this-title\/embed\/#?secret=XZIyDTG94E\" data-secret=\"XZIyDTG94E\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;&#8220;Everything is a remix&#8221;, presumably also this title&#8221; &#8212; twentyone\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"qigzqcNvHL\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2012\/05\/creativity\/\">Creativity<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2012\/05\/creativity\/embed\/#?secret=qigzqcNvHL\" data-secret=\"qigzqcNvHL\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Creativity&#8221; &#8212; twentyone\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few days ago, Spencer Chen\u00a0posted this picture on Twitter: and commented: Nothing is original, esp. in #design. (btw, these are NOT the logos of Medium, AirBNB, Flipboard, and Beats) That&#8217;s right. Spencer&#8217;s photograph contains the names of\u00a0the institutions those logos belong(ed) to: a publishing company, a drive-in, an oil company and a city in Germany. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2016\/04\/logo-look-alikes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Logo look-alikes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[17,29,38,195],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-note","tag-art","tag-creativity","tag-design","tag-originality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/logo-inspiration.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pPwF-xr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2130,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}