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typesoup
11-05-2006, 04:38 AM
Okydoky. Whilst perusing a web and logo design company's rather exhaustive portfolio, I came upon an immediately and unmistakably recognizable graphic: the Photoshop CS2 feather. It was incorporated into another unrelated logo and was displayed in their portfolio. They didn't even bother to alter it in any way, including angle, colorization, feather detail, nuttin'.
So, I'm still flap-jawed. Any comments/suggestions/reality check, etc.?
That one sort of takes the cake, what designer doesn't recognize that? LOL Maybe you could email a note to Adobe's corporate office?
morea
11-05-2006, 12:04 PM
^ yeah, I think that's what I would do. Good call, EC.
Danger_Mouse
11-05-2006, 01:16 PM
I saw a website recently that did the same thing. Someones portfolio website with not only the adobe feather, but the adobe logo.
The more I think about it, the more it offends me. Monday I am going to find the website and email it as well as adobe. I feel like a RAT but its just really pathetic, arrogant and ignorant on their part and insults us designers.
typesoup
11-05-2006, 02:28 PM
The closest I could come to finding an appropriate Adobe section to contact was piracy which didn't quite fit, so I posted on the user-to-user forum. Someone responded with something that had entered my mind, which is to make sure this isn't actually the company that designed the icon for Adobe.
On the other hand, if I had designed an icon for Adobe or any other highly visible company, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be using just the feather on some obscure company logo. Even if it were the case, I'd imagine Adobe has a proprietary use of the image.
If this is misappropriation, how daft does someone have to be to lift such a ridiculously high profile image?
*doink*