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Tom Brazelton is a 34.43 year old boy, has been a member since September 27, 2003, has scored 1,139 submissions, giving an average score of 2.22, helping 3 designs get printed.

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Oct 17 '06 by Tom Brazelton
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Familiar?

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Uh, does this design look familiar to anyone else?

http://www.threadless.com/product/237/Ask_Me_How_I_Became_A_Pirate

ecky_ducky on Oct 17 '06 at 9:05am

Why? Because there is a speech bubble involved?

ecky_ducky on Oct 17 '06 at 9:05am

And a briefcase?

Bramish on Oct 17 '06 at 9:07am

It's pretty much completely different other than that they both feature a silouhette guy and a speech bubble, which is hardly an entirely original concept.

Tom Brazelton on Oct 17 '06 at 9:07am

Yeah, pretty much.

Not saying "Ask Me How I Became A Pirate" was the most original concept in the world, but the two designs mirror each other pretty closely.

Actually, the detail on this one is better, though.

ecky_ducky on Oct 17 '06 at 9:08am

No wai Bramish, this is TOTALLY plagiarism!

TOTALLY!

ecky_ducky on Oct 17 '06 at 9:08am

They don't mirror each other!

One's about pirates, and the other's about being secretly juvenile!

Tom Brazelton on Oct 17 '06 at 9:09am

Being a pirate isn't juvenile?

I didn't say the concepts were similar. I think the execution is.

Bramish on Oct 17 '06 at 9:10am

I can see where you'd draw similarities.

Tom Brazelton on Oct 17 '06 at 9:11am

Don't get me wrong - I like the concept and design of this shirt.

It's just - when I saw it - I said "Whoa, de ja vu!"

AWorldApart on Oct 17 '06 at 9:12am

OMG, your right! I MUST report this to Threadless IMEDIATLY. Whoever made this design way to go PLAGARISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

deboraborialis on Oct 17 '06 at 9:24am

I see similarities.

PeteyPie on Oct 17 '06 at 1:38pm

LOL this is why threadless is getting so ridiculous.

oh - a tshirt with a speech bubble on it has been printed. from now anyone with anything remotely similar is copying! same goes for anything with robots, hearts, tree outlines, food with faces....

when will it end??? it will end soon, when every submitted idea is seen to be copying something that is already printed.

Nodus on Oct 17 '06 at 1:41pm

At first I thought it was part two in a series of clipartworks from the same artist.

sonmi on Oct 17 '06 at 1:49pm

there is too much spazzing out in this blog!

phones on Oct 17 '06 at 1:50pm

haha

p_Resize on Oct 17 '06 at 4:59pm

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Tom Brazelton on Oct 17 '06 at 6:08pm

I second sonmi's post.

All I'm saying is that they're similar. I never claimed plagiarism.

Do you guys ever get tired of being so ironic and detatched?

jet approves on Oct 17 '06 at 6:13pm

I thought of "Ask Me How I Became a Pirate" when I saw this one too. People need to calm down. It's not a big deal.

Luke... on Oct 17 '06 at 6:15pm

well, it is just like every other silhouette design, in that it is done with silhouettes....geesh, them silhouettes are everywhere, could somebody turn a light on for cryingoutloud

Solmu on Oct 18 '06 at 8:58am

If you weren't claiming anything why even bring it up?

Tom Brazelton on Oct 19 '06 at 10:56pm

Because I thought it was worth discussing. I wanted to know if I was the only one who saw similarities or not.

Does that not meet your criteria for blog posts? I didn't know we needed to run them by you first.