Squeegeelution

In 2011, our friend Chris T. Wilson was a window cleaner and had the idea to make a cool print for t-shirts he could wear while washing windows in the upper Ojai Valley of Southern California. One day, he took at least 100 pictures of his fist holding different sized squeegees in various positions and poses. He then used photo editing software to make a design and Squegeelution was born! He printed shirts and J. Racenstein picked it up right away and bought 100 shirts in various sizes.

The design was then licensed to us (Window Cleaning Resource) in 2014 to use as our corporate logo. As time went on, unfortunately, every few weeks other window cleaners were taking the design and using it as their own logo or design. Now, most of them were probably doing this innocently and without malicious intent. They or their graphic designers find the design somewhere online and then, thinking it is free clip art, paste it up on their company websites or on Facebook.

Intentional or not though, these companies are using Chris's copyrighted art. This has given him a hard lesson in intellectual property law. He's learned about the Berne Convention and what creative rights are protected under the international treaty.

The SqueegeePower, Squeegeelution, Squeegeelicious design has officially been submitted to the US Copyright Office for official registration. It's copyrighted and trademarked by us (windowcleaner.com) for exclusive use. Unless you have permission from Chris or Alex Lambrinides or windowcleaner.com to use the design, do not use it. Realizing your art was taken without permission is a terrible feeeling. Time and effort went into creating this design, Chris Wilson should be the only one receiving all of the accolades and profit from it.  Taking someone else's art is not only lazy and unoriginal but it is STEALING and punishable by law.