Plagiarism
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- MLVR
I just saw a program on Swedish television discussing plagiarism. Always when this topic comes up concerning graphic design I get dissapointed because I think they treat the wrong issues.
Often I think the discussion seem to focus around stealing styles. e.g. Büro Destruct is just a tDR clone. But the style they've been accused to rip off is on their hand inspired by neo-tokyo.
Is it really wrong to be inspired by other artists and styles? In comparsion with music where you've got heaps of genres practised and explored by heaps of artists the design scene seem to lack concrete genres.
Some of the styles/genres I can think of is "David Carson Trash/Grunge design", "tDR neo-tokyo typography oriented design", "Muller-Brockman swiss grid design", "70s power flower design". never mind the names I gave these styles. Why don't we have more genres within the dicipline of graphic design and why are the ones we got always referring to time epochs or famous practicians of a certain style?
Also in art they have named the different epochs. Modernism, Cubism etc. Picasso pretty much invented the cubism but it's not called the "picasso style" nor is it named after one of the other big practicians, Braque.
I know this is a broad topic that is hard or perhaps impossible to have the right answers to but I think that if graphic design got their own genres there would be less talk about stealing or borrowing styles and more focus on the craft and the communication behind. And therefor easier to decide wether something is plagiarism or not.
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- mevsthem0
All your design belong to us.
It's kinda like that.
- johndiggity0
keep pushing the analogy of bands and design outfits. it is certainly a reasonable similie, and makes sense when you think about it. it also reinforces the notion of design being connected to a time period, making it relevant to that specific point in time's audience, yet like music, it also dates it and therfore categroizes it on hindsight.
i don't think there is such a thing as timeless design, no matter how hard you try. the fact that music has been around a lot longer than our field can show us the possibilities we can expect.