You know a design is popular…

June 23, 2010 by Collin

… when two different sites “borrow” it for their posts/articles. Even if it doesn’t really fit.

While we were watching the new Alice in Wonderland tonight, Heather decided to try to find my “Alice” design I made a few years back for Illustration Friday by doing a Google image search. She didn’t find the design:

… but she did find my old, original “Fizzle & Pop” masthead:

… being used by two different sites. The first was placed in an article on someone named Jill Stanek’s blog from May of 2007. She appears to be the type of person… Hmm… Let’s just say I find her intolerance annoying and leave it at that.

The second is on this page a ways down. It’s a slow moving page and a ways down on the right, so I took a screenshot for those unwilling to wait:

The site itself appears to be about military strategy.

I have no real problem with these people using my design without asking. As large as the internet is, it’s bound to happen and not everyone can just make what they like when the mood strikes them. It’s just really weird seeing something I made so long ago, and looked at so many times back when I posted with some regularity, used for these two things.

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In other news, she found a few sites mentioning a couple of my t-shirt designs. I made #9 (my favorite number, actually) on a list of the “Funniest Unofficial Star Wars T-Shirts” at Teenormous.com. I’m #12 AND #36 on their list of “The Best Zombie T-Shirts“.

My “Kill Brain” design was favorably reviewed at www.best-tshirts-ever.com. Browsing around the site I found they also reviewed my “Portal” design here.

Fun stuff.

—- EDIT —-

Dave over at www.best-tshirts-ever.com commented and asked for a list of my shirt designs. I’ve sent him an email, but I may as well post them here too in case anyone wants to take a look at them. Like I told him, in hindsight I’m no longer that keen on some of them. But here they are, frogs and all, sorted by submission date, first to most recent.