You're right, it's definitely a bit of a rip-off, but

1) The Ministry of Sound logo is imitation of an official government ministry logo anyway, eg https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/the-office-of-th... or https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations

2) The Ministry of Sound changed their logo: http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_logo...

1. They used the same state emblems to create a completely different design.

2. Doesn't mean other people can use their "old" logo (which they're currently still using).

FWIW, I'm no fan of MOS (one of the reasons I posted is because they're notoriously litigious, even suing Spotify over the order of user playlists), but I'm also no fan of design work being so blatantly ripped off, particularly by companies that can easily afford to hand work to a real designer.

Actually, a lot of the force of your criticism disappears when you realise that they are both derivatives of governmental logos used in the UK -- not surprising since both bodies are British.

The Ministry of Sound logo is a derivative of the crowned portcullis logo of the Parliament of the UK - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingd...

> they are both derivatives of governmental logos used in the UK

No they aren't. The MOS logo uses emblems of the British state (crown and portcullis) to create a design that's completely different from that of any British state institution, as demonstrated by your own example.

The logo of "Ministry of Testing" is not inspired by any Government emblem, it's literally just the MOS logo with one word changed and a ninja instead of a portcullis/speaker.

A company that makes $100k/month and brags about its "uber cool" design should be able to do better than that.

@MinistryOfTesting incase you need better logo let me know would love to make one for free :) mail @ eyuva.com

They're pulling $50k+ per month and you want to make them a logo for free?

And people wonder why so many clients feel entitled to free creative work.

It's either a fiverr logo or somebody tried their hand in Photoshop

Since Indiehackers has now changed the URL of the Ministry of Testing logo, breaking it in the parent post (it's still on the Indiehackers page, with a new URL), here it is on Imgur, alongside the Ministry of Sound logo:

http://i.imgur.com/qsfhevt.png

In case anyone thinks I broke the URL for nefarious reasons, it's actually because all assets are fingerprinted based on my last deploy, and I just deployed :)