Right-wing political organization steals its logo (No Labels)

[Hannah Bell]

The newly formed national political organization called No Labels should have perhaps followed the advice of its own name.

The group, which proposes “a new way of looking at politics” to get past partisan gridlock and which recruited Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and other luminaries to speak at its opening today, has also unveiled its Web site. It includes a grabby graphic...If the graphic looks familiar, that’s because it bears a very, very striking resemblance to one that is at least five years old — and belongs to someone else.

The older graphic was created by the designer Thomas Porostocky and included in a book compiled by the graphic artist Milton Glaser titled “The Design of Dissent.” Since 2008, Mr. Porostocky has been using it as the logo of his own political organization, More Party Animals...He (Porostocky) added, “To be honest with you, I’m pretty surprised that something like this was even attempted considering their relatively high profile. It’s just an extremely lazy and careless way to launch your organization.

But the man who designed the graphic for No Labels, Dave Warren, a 30-year veteran of Madison Avenue, said that he came up with the concept completely independently.



(Update: He's since confessed he stole it.)

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/a-label-perhaps-poorly-chosen/?pagemode=print

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/oh-thats-why-it-seemed-familiar/

The No Labels party claims they did not steal the logo and came up with it independently from the More Party Animals organization.

Perhaps.

Or perhaps the corporate CEO's who are running the No Labels party are modeling themselves after Bill Gates, who always operates under the premise that what is somebody else's is actually his.

http://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/bloombergs-no-labels-party-steals-logo.html