designers are way behind...
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- 10mtl
Why is everbody so hysteric about who´s ripping who?
Seems like most designers are really stingy with their ideas.
Everything has to be unique and never seen before. Why?
We are all working in a cultural context which we are stealing from every day.
Your ideas are not all your ideas. They build on something you saw before.
It´s about time graphic content is free to re-use, like music is for a long time already.
- kpl0
You know, that's exactly what I think.
So stop ripping me off.
- silencer0
lol kpl!
- radar0
Theres an angle - you could be like the PuffDaddy of the design game and just remix classic design.
- silencer0
yeah thats cool I'm gonna rip that idea.
- dopepope0
while I agree with some of your points, 'everything' designers create isn't derivitive of something they've seen necessarily, it can be derivitive of NOTHING they've ever seen. Hence their originality.
- josimarX0
how about sending me the .fla of your scrollbar 10mtl? that's what I call sharing... thanks pal.
(my scrollbar on my site doesn't have a thing where you click on the bit behind the bar and it jumps to it... looks quite similar to yours though, but I don't think I ripped you off.)
- brooke0
Okay--I have to get it off my chest.
I'm sick to death of the shit I see on Threadless.
Every
damn
thing
looks
exactly
the
same!But not just Threadless. I have only one or two favorites on NT, and everything else is the same old pooh.
- Spix0
we took you serious for a while, but now we hate to see you smile.
- 10mtl0
Or you could be the DJ Hell of design, "rip" a whole decade´s aestethics and make something extremely contemporary.
sampling in music is not just remixing. it´s a respected process of producing art for about 20 years now.
why is design so far behind?
- josimarX0
i agree about the threadless thing. all pish. too many tees that have shit-ly drawn stuff and meaningless phrases like 'mega-compute 2004' or some crap.
- radar0
can i use that OldPooh™
- dopepope0
...this coming from a vector tracer.
oh snap!
Hi Brooke.
- silencer0
Off topic, but how is silver server hosting Tenmetal?
- silencer0
I meant to say, are they good hosts?
- brooke0
I don't trace vectors. :)
Hi Joey Joe Joe !!
- TransFatty0
duh.
- illdesign0
fuck it, just sample. i do. I sample everything from 8bit videogames to swedish design posters from the 50s and mash it all up... now steal my ideas fockers.
- Mimio0
There's plenty of variety out there. The interplay of ideas is in full effect and has been for quite some time. 10mtl, your analysis of "the current state of affairs" is more of a reflection of your choices in material. Time to push or get out of the way.
- radar0
I prefer the Design MashUp!
- Spix0
we are not abnormal, we got our morals.