Copying is the way design works
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Copying is the way design works
You can copy the output (like an idea, design, or website) but you can’t copy the inputs.
Great taste is developed. Their life experience, who they worked with, who they studied and were inspired by, what they built, where they failed.
Craft comes from 10,000 iterations.
-Lee Rob
Graphic design, the discipline of aesthetic production, is facing a crisis as it reconciles with catastrophic effects of network technology on its profitability. Even prolific designers who produce work with a characteristic original aesthetic are quickly copied. As their work is pillaged and reproduced downstream (leftstream), it becomes increasin... See more