Copying is the way design works
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Copying is the way design works
Lessons:
1. Imitate
Copywork is a great way to build the design muscles.
2. Remix
Start tweaking and fuse you'r imagination into it.
3. Invent
The “adjacent possible” is drawing connections from seeminlgy unrelated concepts/things and placing them together.
Dan gives the best breakdown of any designers process, that actually reveals the little nuances the nitty gritty parts of the process .
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Austin Kleon)
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On the Shoulders of Giants
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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
Toby Shorin • Report: The Diminishing Marginal Value of Aesthetics
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Steal one percent each from a hundred sources and connect those sources into one creation. That is how to steal properly. But that also requires a man to widen the input sources while understanding how to direct them into his vision.
Bruno De Campos • River Through the Heart
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David Rudnick on his creative strategies and insistence on original work: "My struggle is not to maintain authorship. I think authorship's presence is paradoxical in design. Design to me is a synthesis of the message that must be shaped and the audience that must receive it. If one starts with an analysis of both message and audience, then authorsh... See more
Toby Shorin • Report: The Diminishing Marginal Value of Aesthetics
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