Ripping/Copying
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The Designers Republic 'ripped off' a lot of japanese pop culture icons to tell a message. For the positive examples, maybe we should call it an influence, inspiration, sampling..
Copying is interesting, especially when it involves the hands of a human being and not just a computer. When there is a real brain involved. What interests me is that you can see 100 of similarities in the print design that gets featured here on this site and many other design portals or blogs.
Maybe some of them are simply copying some ideas from another source, but mostly the end result is still interesting – which then inspires other people to copy that. There is a lot of this in the graphic design that goes around online and what goes around, really goes around..
If that many designers feed off design to make design, then maybe for design's sake we should believe in the good of copying?- The design community that lays together, stays together.Anders