Some days ago Google launched Google Venture to seek and discover great companies. We were a little bit surprised by the similarity of their logo with our WPEngineer logo. Even some of our readers, thanks Bastian, notified us, that the new logo looks familiar. But don’t get me wrong, I really like their Google Venture logo and the background, maybe they took our logo and made it just a little tiny better. 😉
But I don’t want to start any speculations or accuse them, that they copied our logo, not at all. Even though, they weren’t inspired by our logo and had the idea out of the blue, at least we can say, we set a trend. 😀
What do you think?
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18 responses to “Google Got Inspired By WPEngineer?”
Yo me imagine lo mismo cuando lo vi
It remembers me to Opera’s dev banner for Opera 10:
http://www.opera.com/browser/next/
You know what they say…. Great minds think alike…
Agreed.
They may have dropped you a few dimes for the ispiration. If they can’t pay for their own logo, where will they get the money to fund the ventures ? 🙂
Hard to say. The “drafting design on blue paper” is a pretty common motif on some design sites. Hard to say which one I like better. I just found your site through a tweet but I’ll definitely stick around and see what you have.
Hey, I got another one : )
http://www.apple.com/de/iphone/preview-iphone-os/
“The “drafting design on blue paper” is a pretty common motif on some design sites.” [2]
😉
@Neri, gracias 🙂
@Sascha, yeah, like I said, looks like we set a trend 😉
@Constandinos, thank you for the compliment!
@Stefano, so true 😀
@Rick, thanks for sticking around, hope you will like our future posts
@Basti, funny, looks like all big companies going this way now, thanks for the link Basti!
Nah, I don;t think so.
It’s no snowflake IMO.
Sorry, didn’t want to be rude… xD
Hey Claudia, you were rude not at all, don’t worry 🙂
If the “G” were half colored with a pencil look and the “O”s looked like the gear in your .com, I’d be screaming bloody foul. However, it seems pretty innocent although similar.
By the way, I have always loved your logo. I have visited and bookmarked your site several times and find it funny that it takes a post about your logo to bring me out of the woodwork. I like the way your logo matches the RSS feed icon and the tag at the bottom of the page. Very pleasing to the eye, but in a completely different way than a website such as webdesignerswall.com.
Well, I think it is indeed inspired, but as you can imagine: Inspiration comes knocking your door when others think alike (as Constantinos already mentioned). By the way, I like the “plagiat” better because it is less a scribble than a header 🙂
You can go way back – http://cocoaradio.com/ and the very similar UPA 2007 logo http://crawlspacemedia.com/portfolio/usability-professionals-association/. I developed the UPA logo and then was told about the cocoa radio logo, having never seen it I about fell off my chair how similar the 2 were. Both created independently and yet almost a match.
@jharr, indeed, they are pretty similar, funny though. Just FYI, we also think that Google created their logo without knowing ours. I think it’s just a common style nowadays.
@frederik, I really like the “plagiat” too
@brett, thanks for the compliment. Glad a post like that made you write a comment. 🙂
Where the design mean something for wpengineers, I can’t really see a meaning of the “blueprint-engineered” stuff for a venture capital firm.
Typical of the Google’s tasty way of approaching business…
OH!
every day I learn something. The inventor of blueprint are wpengineer and they have the original of this kind of corporate design.
jajaja
Probably Google knows you but i think exist a lot of logo that using this graphical resource and much better than you, but i can understand you and it’s so estimulating see other logos from a big company like google that seems a lot but apperf before you.
@jordi, true, it’s motivating that big companies goes the same way. And true, of course this kind of style existed way before WPEngineer was even an idea. 🙂