But that didn't "take" the design anywhere. They just straight up copied it and are selling it.

They weren't "inspired". They wish they had made the frame and had the rights to sell it...so they made the frame and are selling it without the rights.

The last 10 years of "inspiration" has been worse than Pop Art.

- Take something old that was unique and that people liked
- Copy it
- Change the color (or not)
- Hype it up on the internet
- ???
- Profit

And the ??? is really:
- Sell it to people who have been primed to like certain things for no other reason than that they "should" like it because of some unknown to them aesthetic that they don't have or even "get". But, by buying said item, the not only prove that they "get it" they also have "it". (But they still never "got it". But don't tell their friends that.)


The inspiration:




The problem is that it is ridiculously easy to copy, produce, and distribute any product today. So, it happens.