UPDATE: 9:45PM…Erik Lacitis at our news partner, The Seattle Times has made contact with both the artist who submitted the winning design and Envestnet for their reaction. You can see his story and their statements here.
UPDATE: 4:00PM…Received the following update from Meghan Pembroke at the City of Everett…
We’re in contact with the designer and will be discussing internally possible next steps.
UPDATE: 1:00PM…The City of Everett just released the following statement after our inquiry on the logo…
It’s been brought to our attention that the logo that was selected as the winning design in the City’s logo competition is similar to an existing company logo. All designers who participated in the contest signed an artist agreement confirming that their submissions were original and did not infringe on any other person’s copyright or service marks. The City is looking into the issue and will respond accordingly.
We’ll continue to follow-up. The original story was posted this morning. LD
Recently the City of Everett revealed the winner of its new logo contest. Here it is…
This design beat out 850 others to win $5000 for artist Sean Hamilton of Seattle.
Today a reader sent MyEverettNews.com the following logo for a national financial advisory company Envestnet. Here is their logo…
The logo for Envestnet, a financial services company listed on the NYSE.
We’ve reached out to both the City of Everett and Envestnet for their reaction to the resemblance. We’ll let you know what they say. Do you think Everett needs to go back to the drawing board?
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December 9, 2014
Everett, Everett Government