February 8, 2000

I'm really bummed out right now. I had a logo designed for me, and it's really cute. I like it a lot. It took a while to narrow down the choices to it. Also importantly I spent a fair chunk of change having it done because I'm really quite awful at graphic design myself.

Anyway, my logo designer emailed me this morning. Seems she just got an email from someone, another soapmaker, who has been using some of the same artwork used in my logo for about two years. And she's not happy about finding it elsewhere.

So I'm kind of depressed about this whole thing. Here are the sides as I see it:

1. I don't want to have someone else's logo be similar to mine, any more than she wants mine to be close to hers.
2. But the clip art is publicly available and anyone can use it, so it would be somewhat unreasonable for someone to expect that I have to change.
3. I'm peeved that I paid a chunk of money to have the logo done and now I have to start all over and go through the process again and possibly pay more money.
4. But, my logo designer can't be expected to know every single time someone else uses the same bit of clip art in a logo somewhere.

   Ugh. I don't know what to do about this. What a disappointment.

   Update: Fri Apr 28 15:15:33 CDT 2000

   Well, after this happened, I ended up asking my logo designer to make some minor changes to it. So she changed it around, and it looks really cute now, I think. Here it is:

   

   I really like the wash of colors in the moon. So I'm happy, despite a few days of confusion and irritation, I still have a wonderful logo.