I found the AirBnB logo in Trademarks and Symbols of the World published in 1988

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70 points·tylermauthe··7 comments

So last month it was the Tokyo Olympics emblem[1], two days ago it was Google's new logo[2], and today it's this.

Is the world ever going to come to grips with the fact that many tens of thousands of thousands of logos and trademarks are registered each year [3], and it's fairly inevitable that some of them will look alike?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=tokyo+olympics+thea...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10176974

[3] Or a lot more, I'm just going from this: https://oami.europa.eu/tunnel-web/secure/webdav/guest/docume...

> Is the world ever going to come to grips with the fact that many tens of thousands of thousands of logos and trademarks are registered each year [3], and it's fairly inevitable that some of them will look alike?

"This logo was designed by Akisato Ueda for a Japanese drive-in called Azuma in 1975."

So, not a big deal methinks. US Code calls for the standard to be confusingly similar and in the same industry.

High resolution version for comparison can be found here [1] and airbnb logo over here [2].

1: http://www.graphis.com/logos/cc1c717c-4b40-11e2-ae70-f23c91d...

2: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Ai...

Did people forget Automation Everywhere Logo?

http://images.bwbx.io/cms/2014-07-17/0717_airbnb_630_INLINE....

Did the Azuma one expire? Or did the company go out of business?

More likely nobody knew of it. It's the sort of design treatment of a A that multiple people could come up with it independently.

This is an outrage

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