Microsoft Design Ripped off Logo
Wow Can you believe this. Check out the original Ubuntu Logo
Now look at this Logo from Microsoft Alumni Network Homepage
Thanks to my buddy John Henshaw over at Sitening.com for pointing this out in a local Nashville User Group of Web Designers and developers that I am a part of. After seeing this I had to post it to my blog.
Now I know as designers we barrow design ideas but you never copy someone’s logo or design. Quite often I will go to web sites and look at logos or Movie Trailers at the Apple Quicktime section of the site. It is great to get the ideas burning and turning in your head. There is one thing that you should stay away from or at least try your best to stay away from. DON’T BLATANTLY STEAL ANOTHER COMPANIES DESIGN OR BRANDING. This is totally unethical and also a violation of copywrite. Hopefully Ubuntu can do something about it that. MSA should be forced to change it. As a community of designers or consumers for that matter, we should do what we can to get this in the public eye. Please digg this store. Just because they are Microsoft and this site is a “Organization of Whatever” (not the .org) does not mean that gives them the write to do whatever they wish.
I am not one to normally write a blog post of this kind but thought that it was important to point out.
I would encourage you to do your part. Get this story some attention. Also if you have two seconds write a quick NICE and I do stress NICE but informative email to Microsoft about this matter. Here is the address.