Mirko Borsche (@smalkgb) are geniuses.
According to the famous quote by Oscar Wilde, they are.
❝ Talent borrows, genius steals. ❞
Today is the day we're really proud to have been ripped off by one of our favourite studio from Germany.
They litterally took the Witches Arise Font we designed with Elsa ( → http://www.thinkink.fr ) one year ago, changed the name to Benjamin Font and used it for their client Die Weltwoche.
It was not hard work as the font was freely distributed through the site of the movie it was designed for → http://www.aninsaneportrait.us/
Check the images below, even the PDF to present the work is an exact copy of the one we made.
They just changed the letter "Q", the "K" and enlarged a little bit the "H".
Were these letters that bad? Maybe. Or not.
One thing we have to admit is that they use it very well (check the double spread for the Weltwoche magazine).
Oh, and today we have to decide which studio will be our next favourite.
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by pleaseletmedesign
2 comments
May 18, 2010
pleaseletmedesign said...
We got mail. From the Bureau:Hello!
I am writing you concerning the thread you published recently about our font "Benjamin". Yeah, I used your type as reference,
but as you can see on our website (have a look on the Weltwoche Magazine) and on the images below, I developed the font further and as the printed version it has very less in common with your font "Witches Arise": I corrected the strengths and made it looking more legible and less "jumpy".
The Font you've seen on our website was not the finalized version. Our mistake to publish a middle step of it. We removed the thread from our website.
Greetings from Munich.
Alexis
