Sometimes when you’re setting up a completely new company, you need to draw on existing sources for inspiration — anyone in business knows this. It’s perfectly OK to learn from the best.

But after our recent article on a pamphlet drop by NBN Tasmania, some readers have suggested the fledgling Taswegian company might have gone a bit far with its logo. Does anyone else think that this:

Looks surprisingly similar to this? That’s not the Australian Broadcasting Company by the way — it’s the American one.

The bad scan of the pamphlet which NBN Tasmania dropped around the early stage NBN rollout communities appeared to show the NBN logo in black and white, of course, but in normal form it’s a lovely Telstra-esque shade of light blue:

However we’re fairly sure this version isn’t authorised — either by NBN Tasmania or 4chan /b/.

Oh dear.

Image credits: NBN Tasmania, ABC and, we can only assume, Robotic Buttocks

Related posts:

1. NBN Tasmania drops “ready to roll” pamphlets
2. Oh dear: For once, Conroy was right
3. Oh dear: What colour should Tassie’s NBN cables be?
4. Oh dear: Telstra comes to the mountain
5. Oh dear: Conroy’s like a boss

1. Anonymous
   Posted 16/04/2010 at 5:38 pm | Permalink | Reply

   Slow news day?

   • Anonymous
     Posted 16/04/2010 at 10:19 pm | Permalink | Reply

     Fridays always are, now do a barrel roll

2. Jenna Pitcher
   Posted 17/04/2010 at 2:18 pm | Permalink | Reply

   Do a barrel roll!

3. Peter Holland
   Posted 19/04/2010 at 6:52 am | Permalink | Reply

   thought that the logo looked more like NBC.

   • Renai LeMay
     Posted 19/04/2010 at 9:47 am | Permalink | Reply

     Really? You can see the NBC logo at NBC.com, I thought it looked fairly different ;)