Earlier this week, Brooklyn Brewery noticed that Dallas' Eno's Pizza Tavern seemed to have taken some artistic liberties when designing their logo. Namely, that they copied the iconic Brooklyn Brewery logo, designed by Milton Glaser. The folks at Eno's told us they hadn't yet heard of any problems with the design, but according to the Dallas Observer the restaurant was soon in talks with Brooklyn Brewery regarding the infringement allegations. And would you look at that, now Eno's has a different logo on their website!
Brooklyn Brewery has since removed the blog post, but they previously wrote, "It appears that Eno’s Pizza Tavern in Dallas, TX exhausted a great amount of energy and resources to develop an original logo for their business. Or perhaps they were drinking a bottle of Brooklyn beer and noticed that reflected in a mirror, a backwards B resembles an E? Either way, those smoke and mirrors don’t fool us!" A reader also provided the overlay above, and the shoddy linework suggests someone traced the B.
In other logo news, graphic designer Milton Glaser was honored at the Library Dinner of The Brooklyn Historical Society earlier this week. Glaser wasn't able to attend, but described his first meeting with Brooklyn Brewery co-founders Steve Hindy and Tom Potter: "They had a name for their beer, Brooklyn Eagle, perhaps for the venerable and respected newspaper that reflected Steve’s background working in journalism. I said, 'Call it Brooklyn! Why do you want to be represented by a bird, when you can own the whole borough?' The rest is history."
