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In the past, people's last names often reflected their profession, such as Smith for an ironworker or Baker for a bread and cake maker. However, nowadays, there are many cases where people end up in jobs that match their name, like an artist named Painter or a chef named Cook. These names are called "aptronyms".

Thinking about that, DesignCrowd came up with a challenge for digital artists to imagine celebrities in professions amusingly appropriate to their names. From Tom Cruise working on an ocean liner to Orlando Bloom watering flowers, we believe these images will make you giggle. 

More info: designcrowd.com

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Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher

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Ozymandias73
Community Member
3 years ago

R.I.P. princess.

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Bored Panda reached out to Clancy Clarke, the Head of Marketing at DesignCrowd to learn more about this platform. Clancy introduced DesignCrowd as a graphic design marketplace that allows customers to fulfill their creative needs via our community of over 1 million designs from across the globe. "Our goal is to help people running small businesses, startups and teams or people with side hustles and passion projects get high-quality designs for a price that fits their budget. DesignCrowd also runs and operates BrandCrowd a design platform that allows those same users to create stunning designs themselves - everything from logos and business cards to facebook posts and instagram stories."

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    #2

    Orlando Bloom

    Orlando Bloom

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    Why?
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I hope he's not allergic.

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    #3

    Jude Law

    Jude Law

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    gmf
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    But being English, it would've been more fun if he'd been in the full wig and ermine

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    Clancy Clarke revealed that DesignCrowd operates using a crowdsourcing 2.0 model - whereby designers are rewarded more often for submitting great designs. "Customers can expect to receive between 50 and 100 designs from multiple designers. The more active you are in providing feedback, the more designs you're likely to receive."

    #4

    Ellen Barkin

    Ellen Barkin

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    ADHORTATOR
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I am a simple man: I see an english mastiff, I upvote

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    #5

    David Letterman

    David Letterman

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    The Original Bruno
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    No! No! No! I want to see him rip the letter T off his chest, and turn the Late Show into the Late Shot! (For YEARS I've been waiting for someone to do Dave as LetterMan!)

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    DesignCrowd has 2 types of contests - paid contests and community contests. 

    According to Clancy Clarke, the paid contests are paid for and run by customers - that is, they write the design brief, provide feedback to designers and select the winning designers. 

    "Community contests are either launched internally or via the designers themselves. The community contests work on a 'scoring' system that utilizes votes from other designers. There's no monetary prize for community contests - it's simply a chance for designers to show off their imagination and creative skills."

    #6

    Heath Ledger

    Heath Ledger

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    Mama Penguin
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    The Heath bar though lol

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    #7

    Tom Cruise

    Tom Cruise

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    Joy
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Trying to work out if he looks really quite alright or really really wrong 😳

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    #8

    Patrick Stewart

    Patrick Stewart

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    The Alpha Geek
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I'd like some tea, Earl Grey, hot.

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    #9

    Dane Cook

    Dane Cook

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    Joshua David
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Well I can say that he played a small but hilarious part as a cook in 2005s Waiting. Hilarious.

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    #10

    Kevin Bacon

    Kevin Bacon

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    Ozymandias73
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    More baccccccccccoooooooooooonnnnnnnnn!!

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    #11

    Will Smith

    Will Smith

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    Vic
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Ah! Slap stick comedy.. no wait slap rock comedy..

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    #12

    Sarah Jessica Parker

    Sarah Jessica Parker

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    PeepPeep the duck
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited)

    Hahahahah this one 😂 😂 I like how they made her taller, she wouldn’t be able to reach half the peddles without some killer heels 😂

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    #13

    Elijah Wood

    Elijah Wood

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    Joy
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Looks like he already has.

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    #14

    Gerard Butler

    Gerard Butler

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    Disinforminationalisticalities
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    That's a disproportionately large head.

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    #15

    Jim Carrey

    Jim Carrey

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    Michael Bell
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Fab-you-lous!

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    #16

    Keira Knightley

    Keira Knightley

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    SheamusFanFrom1987
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Lady Kiera, Knight of the Roundtable, at your service. Thou enemies shall feel the wrath of the mighty Caliburn XP

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    #17

    Charisma Carpenter

    Charisma Carpenter

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    funkybluegirl
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    She'll always be Cordelia Chase to me.

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    #18

    Alec Baldwin

    Alec Baldwin

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    Badulesia
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Nice one ! :)

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    #19

    Winona Ryder

    Winona Ryder

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    Jesse
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I see horse I upvote

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    #20

    Simon Baker

    Simon Baker

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    Steve Zhang
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    These are so good!

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    #21

    Brooke Shields

    Brooke Shields

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    Kelly Shields
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Yes!!!

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    #22

    Reese Witherspoon

    Reese Witherspoon

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    Bryna Tracy
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Can we see her Withouterspoon?

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    #23

    Billy Crystal

    Billy Crystal

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    El Cucuy
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I was expecting to see him in a meth lab. lol

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    #24

    Minnie Driver

    Minnie Driver

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    The Original Bruno
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Looks relatively full-size to me. A little skinny, maybe...

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    #25

    Teri Hatcher

    Teri Hatcher

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    User# 6
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    This one is rather disturbing...

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    #26

    Penélope Cruz

    Penélope Cruz

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    Badulesia
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Cruz means cross in spanish, not cruise

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    #27

    Sigourney Weaver

    Sigourney Weaver

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    LAS
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    technically that's spinning, not weaving

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    #28

    Larry King

    Larry King

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    Kirby Kaz
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    It's the holy hand grenade of Antioch!

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    #29

    Chevy Chase

    Chevy Chase

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    Lisa H
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Should have had him chasing a Chevrolet truck.

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    #30

    Christian Slater

    Christian Slater

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    Dee
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    ?

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    #31

    Tyra Banks

    Tyra Banks

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    Joy
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    There's a DJ called Rob Da Bank and I'm hoping it's his real name.

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    #32

    David Cook

    David Cook

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    Kristen T
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I adore you David Cook! I love that you made it on this list! ❤️❤️❤️ Now get in the kitchen and make me some food. 😂

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    #33

    Ban Ki-Moon

    Ban Ki-Moon

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    Disinforminationalisticalities
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Ah, Mr Ban-Ki Moon. A bought and paid for, corrupted to the bòne member of the deep state. And before you comment on this...YES, I AM A CONSPIRACY THEORIST.

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    #34

    Alicia Keys

    Alicia Keys

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    Louise Clarke
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Her name fits part of her job already as she plays piano.

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    #35

    Rachel Hunter

    Rachel Hunter

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    Vic
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Shouldn't she be holding a Rachel by the neck, instead of that poor bird?

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    #36

    Kevin Spacey

    Kevin Spacey

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    Joe Publique
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited)

    Why can't Kevin Spacey win at blackjack? 'Cos he keeps hitting on 17. Why did Kevin Spacey quit his music career? He kept playing in A minor. What did the woman say to Kevin Spacey on the beach? Can you move please, you're in my son. What do Kevin Spacey and Walmart have in common? Boy's pants are half-off. What time is bedtime at Kevin Spacey's house? When the big hand touches the small hand. Meeting Tom Hanks made my day, but meeting Kevin Spacey made my hole weak. Seriously, downvote away, but F*£$ Kevin Spacey.

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    #37

    Oliver Stone

    Oliver Stone

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    darqemm
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Is that Oliver stone??

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    #38

    Sean Combs

    Sean Combs

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    Ozymandias73
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    That's a brush

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    #39

    Billie Joe Armstrong

    Billie Joe Armstrong

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    Pheebs
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    This is all sorts disturbing. That head looks like it’s nearly headless.

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    #40

    John Goodman

    John Goodman

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    Your Neighborhood Alien
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Good man ≠ priest. Anyone can be a good man

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    #41

    Kevin Bacon

    Kevin Bacon

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    Disinforminationalisticalities
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Why was Kevin Bacon done twice?? With the same damn joke!! Did you forget you had already done this??

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    #42

    Howie Mandel

    Howie Mandel

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    The Original Bruno
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Now that you ask, How he Mandel on a Mandolin?

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    #43

    Christopher Walker

    Christopher Walker

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    Susan Green
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Christopher Walken.

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    #44

    Amanda Seyfried

    Amanda Seyfried

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    Dee
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    ?

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    #45

    Oprah Winfrey

    Oprah Winfrey

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    Lorrie Rothstein
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Don't get it.

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    #46

    Steven Tyler

    Steven Tyler

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    Lorrie Rothstein
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Doesn't make sense. Tyler is not taylor

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