Feeling Robbed
Monday, July 30th 2007
2 o 3 weeks ago I stumbled in town here upon a logo which looked really similar to mine, I didn’t take it seriously and haven’t thought about it too much, in fact I found it a bit amusing. Now this week I saw the logo again and this time I noticed what the logo was for. The logo was attached to stands on wheels (like those hot dog stands in NYC but smaller) which 2 people in white working-suits rolled around through town. They talked to people about how to recycle their trash and not to throw the trash just on the floor but actually use the garbage cans.
So all this made me look at the logo a lot more careful and so I noticed a website address next to the logo and I checked it out at home and this is where all the thing came falling upon me.
The logo is for a group which calls itself “Interest Group for a clean Environment” now I don’t have anything against a group like this, in fact I support things like this but what pisses me off is that they’ve created pretty much what I’ve planned for my little thing here.
I mean Soap stands for clean or better yet cleaning, I’ve been talking about environment a lot in the last year and I’ve been complaining to all my friends about the littering of todays youth, especially on weekends when they are drunk. So I’ve had this idea of creating 12 different ads all about littering based on the The 12 Kinds of Ads. But now they’ve been faster than me. The company exists since May ‘07 and I’ve created my logo on May 27th.
Would this company or this group exist in a country far away from here I wouldn’t mind but they are from right here, I feel like if I contact them and talk about helping or co-helping, they accuse me of stealing their copyrighted logo and idea and everything.
So what’s to do now? I will be gone for 2 weeks (enjoying some free time with my girlfriend) and in those 2 weeks I will have time to go back to the drawing board and come up with maybe a new logo and a new concept of the whole page (if there was one now). I’m sad of course because I was happy with where I was going with the whole thing but I can’t keep on doing this when there’s a group which does the exact same thing I wanted to do with an almost identical looking logo right here in the same country and town.
Ok enough complaining, I’m off for 2 weeks, oh and if you wanna see what I’m talking about? Click here: IGSU - Interest Group for a clean Environment