Found you!
My friend stumbled upon this little gem and sent it my way:
The title of the album is an obvious rip of the logo I created for my college grad show back in 2009:
The idea behind the logo is not that unique, but the logo was silk screened and converted to a vector and has a very unique grunge look. If the designer who saw this thought it was so creative, they should have gone and reproduced it, not copy and pasted it.
I have never had to deal with an issue like this before as most of my art stays off the net, but this logo was all over facebook. This obviously isn't a big name artist, but they are using my logo on their album cover and not crediting me or my design team in any way. Ridiculous!
Worse than just terrible clipart
The original is a identity created for a children's hair product brand. The terrible illustration was found in a picture frame sold at a Real Canadian Superstore. I have to think that the other pieces in the "illustration" are probably stolen as well.
There are way too many terrible designers/illustrators in the world.
Stolen
rue21 rips off video for tee design
Above: A fan-made video for Sam Sparro's 2009 song "Black and Gold", done by Kris Martinez. Underneath: rue21's new tee design.
This specific font was even called out in the comments of the YouTube video.
RESIDUE COMICS’ R. Lootine vs. XLARGE clothing
- XLARGE "CHUMP TEE" t-shirt released Fall 2010, looking a lot like artwork created by Residue Comics' R. Lootine years earlier.
Below is artwork that I created for a t-shirt design in 2005. The design is still available on stickers and patches. I often use it as an avatar for Residue Comics online. Notice, they even stole my character's proper name!
"Chump-on-a-Bike" by R. Lootine, c2005.
I made another version of this image for t-shirts in summer 2010. Better keep an eye out for copies of that one too!
[ed note: this one is just begging for a lawsuit, or at least a DMCA notice. The rip even has the exact same moovles and sweatles and dust fart details as the original.]
Vice magazine caught ripping off tshirtslayer.com content for Nike advertisement.
Legendary tshirt and battlejacket forum recently had a couple of it's entries ripped off by Vice magazine doing a flip-out booklet for Nike promoting their ulgy-as-shit plain jackets.
The response from Andy Capper editor of Vice magazine ? Apparently they don't give a very high priority to asking if they can use peoples content first.
