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- Geith
the truth.
It is my firm belief that when information is shared, everybody wins. In the design world, people often tend to practice the opposite. People hoard their design tricks and secrets like a dragon hoards treasure, often getting indignant when someone else copies his or her 'style' or 'look.' I call bullshit on that. Humanity learns through imitation and repetition. We all have built in systems that allow us to imitate others at an early age, and this paves the way for language development which in turn leads to everything else.
'Design' and 'art' are never conceived in a vacuum. Like revolutionary movements, the people that become figureheads are only those who know how to harness an already existing momentum. Other people lay the groundwork and only a select few get the credit. As such, when it comes to 'design' I believe that if we can help each other, we should. That's why I'm putting a shitload of my personal design resources on the internet for free for anybody to download. Yes, I could sell them to a stock company for money.
But I'd rather give back to the design community which has inspired me, not take more. It is my hope that others will be likewise inspired to open up their resources and share their sketches and partially realized ideas. Many already have. I hope that we can stop worrying about who's ripping off who, and concentrate our energies on enriching our own lives and the lives around us.
- tangereen0
i agree with this sort of gesture, and i think that current copyright laws stifle creativity and growth.
i once heard of a children's program that had homer simpson on a tv in the background, and they were told to either reshoot their video or pay $30,000 for the rights to have homer in their video in the background for 10 seconds. would you pay $30k for 10 seconds of homer in the background of your video? they had to go back into production because of this.
on the other hand, unfortunately, there are people who would steal designs wholesale and call it their own.
there's got to be some sort of balance between the two of them. we should still try and maintain a culture of creating art for the public domain. i mean, look at disney -- they made their fortune rehashing other people's stories -- cinderella, little mermaid, aladdin, mulan, etc. but their work is probably responsible for the very existence of the animation industry.
- uberdesigner0
I agree. open source clients.
- Monokai0
I think this is a step in the right direction: http://creativecommons.org/