This one was definitely not intended as a skull and crossbones image, yet it bears a remarkable resemblance. Can you guess what it is?
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Ok, so after having been out of town for a week, things are finally moving again. This time around we have the Cupcakes and Crossbones variation, which seems to be quite popular in the US.
This is a t-shirt design (who would've thought?!); from the description on their website:
"This head hunter inspired design puts headhunter tattoos, spears, barongs, fertility symbols, skulls, swords, shields, and axes to piece together the Skull-&-Bones."
By Herr Jimmy, Wednesday, 19. September 2007, 21:41
This one looks like a mashup of #54 and #15. But it is actually the logo of "the German Jamie Oliver", TV cook Tim Mälzer. It is being used for his TV shows, DVDs, T-shirts, etc.
Spending all your money on diamonds and fancy shirts will leave you with no money for food and you might end up looking as hungry as this young lad does.
Apparently not only too much coffee, but also excessive gaming will kill you -- I've even seen a piece on TV about this recently. Don't say you haven't been warned!
By Herr Jimmy, Wednesday, 5. September 2007, 15:05
Y'all know Sideshow Mel from the Simpsons, right? The guy wearing a bone through his hair.
Well, two minutes of photoshopping, and there is another skull and crossbones variation. ;-)
Ok, just for the heck of it, another heart variation. There are literally billions of this kind out there so this might be the last one involving a heart I'm posting, since they're basically all the same.
A coal miner skull with pick and shovel. I was gonna do something similar with a construction worker, but you get the idea anyway, so there's no need for that anymore.
This is being used by a hairdresser in Munich. Seen on German TV yesterday.
(Before I saw this, I was going to make a different image involving scissors as well, I'll probably do that in the near future.)
Another one of my favorites. Simple, but very effective. Headphones as the skull, and some cables as crossbones. From a flyer for a German techno party last year.
I love when two widely known symbols merge and form something new. This variation of the skull and crossbones is of course a take on the arrow through heart symbol. On the other hand, it's just one more of millions of skull-and-crossbones variations involving a heart.
Ok, so this one is the classic symbol we all know. I consider the above image the most prototypical version of the skull-and-crossbones symbol, thus all variations are more or less derived from this.