Ripping/Copying
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In music there is a phenomenon like Mashup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mas…)
For more on this, download the excellent documentary Good Copy Bad Copy
http://creativecommons.org/weblo…I don't think it has to do especially with styles/trends, other than the creative copying of another work might become a style for others. In this way, you are creating something new for the lazy to rip-off, thus making in entirely different from the original source.
It's an interesting topic, if you dive a little deeper than the usual 'rip-off or accident'. In the most original cases, where two works has so much in common, it's mostly a matter of chance and the work is often so based on an idea, that you can trace it back to its source of inspirations.
The incident of finding works of art that resembles my own in an almost frightening way, is in a way very uplifting; that there is something bigger than the ego. An idea that somehow needs to be realised. I have this feeling sometimes when I see other peoples art or design; that I like it very much, but somehow have an urge to add something – to make it different, new, personal..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App…)
The idea of appropriation has long been used in art, but mostly it doesn't reveal new ways of seeing in design. Mostly it is seen as a rip-off or laziness. I'd love to see designers sample more.I watched a TED talk with J.J. Abrams, creator of Lost TV series
http://www.ted.com/index.php/tal…
where he wonders why filmmakers always rip off the monster and not the characters or stories in those movies. I think Jaws is his example.Why not sample Build, Sagmeister, Paul Rand, whoever.. but in a new way? There is a chance, a small one perhaps, that it'll reveal new directions, new ideas that has nothing to do with style. Not plagiarism, but inspiration/association.
The cliché Picasso quote 'Good artists copy. Great artists steal'
has to do with the leaving the monster behind.Maybe I'm just rambling.