Modern-day logos that look awfully similar to older logos from different companies

Spencer Chen, VP of marketing and business development at Alibaba Group, has responded to complaints that AliExpress has hosted design pirates by tweeting images from a 1989 book called Trademarks & Symbols of the World: The Alphabet in Design. Do they look familiar?

Nothing is original, esp. in #design. (btw, these are NOT the logos of Medium AirBNB, Flipboard, and Beats)pic.twitter.com/JNDsM0rhod

- Spencer Chen (@spencerchen) April 27, 2016

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