On Copying and Stealing Designs

The notion on the great artist, Pablo Picasso's quote, "Badartists copy. Good artists steal" is lost on many. And revolving aroundthe graphic designer circles is the quote "Good artists copy, greatartists steal" known as Picasso's quote, still. Anyway, it might justbe safe to assume that Picasso have not quoted this words exactly buthe did have an "expert's assessment and statement" regarding copyingand stealing art styles and techniques.

The artistic world waswidely influenced by Picasso, being the first living artist to befeatured in the Louvre. Many have their own opinion and interpretationas to what he really meant on the quote. With the onset of digitaltechnology and digital art, it is understandable that the modern Webgraphic design also has an interpretation for it.
In an article byCameron Moll, the Creative Director for IDI athttp://www.sitepoint.com/article/copy-great-designers-steal he hadendeavored to uncover a possible explanation in three levels of design.These three levels involves some aspect of copying or stealing, showsincreasing design maturity, adapts Picasso's quote to modern graphicdesign. The interpretation by Moll was segmented in such a way that donot imply that they are the only levels of design. it is but a guide toassist the improvement of designers' design and lead to their maturitywith regards to copying and stealing designs.

The first levelexplains a well-imparted principle of starting out by copying otherwell-created designs. Web designing could relate this principle fromthe advice of Web copywriting guru, Gerry McGovern for writers: havinga model for the kind of article that they need to do, dissect andanalyze them and copy.

Copying, not creating have surprisingpositive effect, too, that of maintaining conventionality. There's afamiliar and intuitive effect for the users when most sites haveessentially the same layout and information architecture by most sites.A Web designing career involve time constraints and budget limitationsso much so that copying is almost mandatory.

The second levelexplains that the best resources where designers can steal are fromthemselves. They can tap into loads of their past designs that werenever used or completed, or from their designs that have already beensuccessful in order to reinvent a new design. This kind of stealing isquite helpful in molding their own distinctive design style to use as aselling point for clients.

The third level involves stealingfrom discreet sources. Albert Einstein is noted for quoting, "Thesecret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." Fordesigners the easiest way to do this is to use sources already hidden.Even great artists can't be accused of stealing if their rare jewels ofinspiration are from lost, bypassed, forgotten ideas which they havesuccessfully incorporated with their own distinctive style. To graphicdesigners, they have to really research and rummage for the necessaryunused and forgotten ideas applicable for their design.

Onemust be careful in copying from well-known sources, though. It is bestto copy the inspiration and not the exact output. To fully summarize,all graphid designers out there, there's no problem in copying, evenPicasso, in one of his quotes told about the necessity of copying.However, it is best to be careful in what you copy and how you copyit.

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