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Aug 27, 2017 · 1 min read

I think what you meant was “all logos are derivative.” Unless you’re designing in a vacuum all your ideas and concepts are amalgams of everything you’ve ever seen or experienced all tucked away in your subconscious. Never mind the published examples pointed out by other readers of this article (namely Trademarks and Symbols Vol I & II).

Go instead to the reference books that chronicle English heraldry and Japanese Crests and you’ll see the source of many present day logos in designs hundreds and thousands of years old.

Access the Encyclopedia of Symbols by Carl G. Liungman and you can draw connections all the way back to prehistoric cave paintings.

This happens because there are a finite number of ways letterforms and geometric shapes can be combined before they start repeating themselves.

Then of course, I’m going off on a tangent here, it is possible (even in a vacuum) for two people to come up with the same or similar ideas at the same time — just ask Edison and Tesla.

You must realize I’m being facetious and yet there is some truth to both what you have written and I have commented.

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