Would you..
- Started 18 years ago
- Last post 18 years ago
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- Baskerville
want to work for a company who had (whether they realise it or not) ripped off a very famous design.
I was sent this company's site, and their project for a property called 'the mill' looks unmistakably like the very famous logo design for the Post production house with the same name.
The property version is worse and more obvious as it includes a bar over the top of the M. It immediately put me off going to see this company:http://www.icodesign.co.uk/themi…
original:
http://www.the-mill.com/index.ph…what worries me most is that a design company either hadn't seen the famous mill logo before (lack of design awareness) or even worse that they HAD seen it and decided to rip it off, badly.
I can't remember who desiged the original but I'm pretty sure it won awards, anyone remember who did it?
- rafalski0
So, there is an agency in London that has a decent looking site presenting pretty neat (I didn't say original) work and hasn't heard of the mill? OK..
I'm not sure who did the original logo but chances are we'll soon get to know this from people who did the site http://www.the-mill.com
- vespa0
didn't engage do the mill post production?
if in an interview situation i'd make a joke about it and see what they say...
- Mishga0
Shit happens...remind me the quark logo...
And you're right..the lack of awareness is unforgivable...
But..if they pay well....go for it.
- Baskerville0
I'm in the middle of a large amount of interviews at the moment and I've been shocked by certain things in the London design industry,
Some studios are rude to the point of making want to leave the interview. The arrogance astounds me sometimes. As if they would be doing you a huge by letting you work for them. I see jobs as a 2 way thing, you're both doing eachother a service.
One company I contacted and sent my details and website to offered me a placement! When I politely declined saying that I was a mid-weight designer, they said "well if you need a placement in the future" I imagine they hadn't even looked at the work.
Oh well, I've had some really positive ones too, people who seem like genuinely nice interesting people with no chips on their shoulders.
What a crazy business.
- Mishga0
I was tacking a look at your site (great work by the way..you shouldn't have trouble looking for a job.. ) and the Dunhill logo looks pretty much like the The mill logo...don't you think???
- Baskerville0
I was tacking a look at your site (great work by the way..you shouldn't have trouble looking for a job.. ) and the Dunhill logo looks pretty much like the The mill logo...don't you think???
www.joshualeigh.co.uk/... [jpg]
Mishga
(Apr 4 07, 02:32)haha, that's funny
except for the fact that I only re-drew the dunhill logo and that is predates the Mill by about 80 years.
- rafalski0
some words with nicely spaced ascenders are just asking for that kind of blocky treatment, ie
dublin
:)
- neue75_bold0
At Concrete we used to start each project by openly discussing who/what we were going to rip off...
- HumanMale0
That sounds like London Baskerville... if your not an arogant prick you just ain't cool.
- Mishga0
At Concrete we used to start each project by openly discussing who/what we were going to rip off...
neue75_bold
(Apr 4 07, 02:51)You seem to be proud of it...
(i would...)
- neue75_bold0
it's a certain reality of certain places and spaces, certainly... doesn't really bother me, as long as there is a sense of authenticism, or at least knowing that you could've come up with the idea originally...
;)
- letters20
Baskerville, why don't you bring it up in the interview? I mean, it will only benefit you to display your sense of integrity and also general design awareness. Talk to them about it, and see what they have to say for themselves. I am sure their response will give you the exact feeling/criteria to understand if you want to work with them.
As for The Mill logo itself – I was under the impression that Made Thought worked on it – but perhaps they have only worked on some of the brand collateral.
- Baskerville0
so who designed the Mill logo then?
One of the things I hate about my current job is that other designers are prepared to rip stuff off. I would never do it, and I'm having trouble using a pattern someone in my studio has 'designed' as it's a direct rip off of a pattern in the Stella McCartney store. I just wish the client knew (they are a very big client)
- neue75_bold0
I thought North did?
- Baskerville0
should have known! North good, that's cleared up.
when will north get a proper wesbite.
- kelpie0
when they need one?
- neue75_bold0
I mean, I would try anything once...
- NuBoy0
I think it would be a great idea to bring up the similarities, as depending on the CD response, you'll know that you will be working with designers that have no morals and no originally.
It sounds like the company i work for, their motto is 'LET'S RESKIN THAT GAME....fu*king muppets!!' but only 5 days left!! Woo-Hoo!
Best of luck Baskerville
- ********0
Pretty sure it was Mason who was at north... but now at bibliothequé...
Was originally design as MillFilm and then used for the mill...
Don't think that other one is really a rip, more coincidence... not a lot to play with with really is there