WTF?

(This post was part of an elaborate April Fools prank. Dan Cedarholm reacted graciously. Thanks to the many many people who participated! Cheers!)

There’s been a lot of noise on the internet lately about people stealing other people’s ideas. Most of it has left me rolling my eyes, and thinking “Come on. Are designers supposed to come up with something new every time we design something?” I mean, sometimes we’re super busy, or the NCAA finals are on, or our client just really likes Joyent’s website. Should designers miss out on life because we’re stuck at our keyboards trying to do something “original” (with air quotes)? Well, that all changed this morning…

I woke up today and discovered MY new identity had been stolen by no fewer than 10 (Ten) reputable designers and developers, some of whom I’d actually considered “friends” (more air quotes).

The following people are no longer invited to my birthday party:
Garret Dimon
Sean Madden
Jonathan Snook
Shawn Grimes
Steve Smith
Patrick Haney
Sean Sperte
Jina Bolton
Scott Boms
Nathan Smith
Brian Warren (Et tu, Brute?)

If you know of anyone else who’s stolen my logo, please link to it in the comments? Frankly, the whole thing’s left me feeling just a bit ”foolish”.

Heheh. A true inspiration, my friend.
Do you do logos for others? If so, how much?
I've got a $50 bill here says you have some work to do today! Is that enough?

Posted 04-01-2007, 01:23 pm, by Luke Dorny

Luke, knowing Mark's intensely busy schedule and supreme design skills, you'll have to do better than $50. Actually, I think you could convince him to do it for free, just ask real nice...

Posted 04-01-2007, 03:58 pm, by Scott

I know Mark loves to do work on spec, so you can just promise him you might pay him the $50 when he's done.

Posted 04-01-2007, 04:53 pm, by Andrew Hedges

Yeah... but only if you like it.

Posted 04-01-2007, 04:59 pm, by Mark Bixby

I think that new silhouette on your website looks more like me than it does you. You stole my entire HEAD! :o :D

Posted 04-01-2007, 05:23 pm, by Chung!

I ran out of creativity on mine... I will pay no more than $189.95 for your logo!

Posted 04-01-2007, 09:19 pm, by Ian Smith

Could someone please inform Mr. Bixby that he stole my logo first? I can't tell him personally because I'm just not talking to him right now.

Posted 04-01-2007, 10:31 pm, by Brian Warren

So, what is SimpleBits' opinion about their logo's increasing popularity?...

Posted 04-02-2007, 03:12 am, by Respiro, the logo design guy

Man, I missed out on all the fun. It's not every day you can plagerise somebody else's work and get away with it, even for a day. I'm all about the brackets.

Posted 04-02-2007, 05:10 am, by Blake

I hopped on the web yesterday and said, "Oh that's funny, Mark Bixby finally made another post!"

Posted 04-02-2007, 12:02 pm, by JD Graffam

I thought i would have abit of April Fool fun. Mostly mocking my own desire to know who looks at my site...

http://www.designforte.co.uk/blog

Posted 04-02-2007, 03:24 pm, by Chris

I'd be thrilled to find out people were stealing from me. Seriously. That's like a whole new level of prestige. ;P

Posted 04-12-2007, 08:32 am, by Joshua Sallach

Ha ha, thats quite funny. Did they return the favor this year?

Posted 04-22-2008, 01:46 am, by Gabbo

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