Virgil said:
I don't think our artistress shops for headphones at Hot Topic very often, so perhaps the fact that someone was using a skull as their logo didn't get noticed. I think she'd be more of a Sennheiser kind of girl anyway.
We use stock art as the base for many designs - you're probably just seeing the similarity between different designs that take influence from the same sources. There's only so many ways one can stylize a skull after all. We've also had stock people from our weekly issue articles appear in other magazines. It's pretty funny when it happens.
That would make sense. There are so many ways to style any thing true, but at the same time I myself just find it a shame that things couldn't be a bit more original. The way the image is shaped and being viewed looks so similar it could be mistaken as the same image. You can't own a 'style' true, but you can make that style your own. That's just me though.
All I'm saying is they look so similar that I noticed, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. I do like the designs on most of the shirts, I do feel moved to buy them (good job guys) but that one stuck out to me. I'm not a troll by any means- stock art is fine and well and all, but when designing things like shirts or logos you have to do some research on who else might be using it- that 'stock' image might have been ripped off, someone might think you were trying to rip someone off, or better yet you might get your name or image stuck to something that you reaaaally don't want your name stuck to. This time it was headphones. Tomorrow it might be Neo Nazis, who knows?
EDIT: I don't shop at Hot Topic either. I found these guys at Best Buy and Circuit City a while back. They aren't exactly unknown, just somewhat new to the scene: http://www.skullcandy.com/shop/headphones-c-42.html?gclid=CLq7nqXEpZcCFQoHswodq22k_Q
