Monday 24 October 2011

Pirates Are Good...

Probably the most inspiring bullet-point taken from my lectures in Design and Communication so far has been my tutors quote regarding originality...

Don't try to be original, try to be good.

It's an interesting point to be made; if you're inspired by another persons work, and you think that you could use the design and make it better, isn't it in the interest of the client to do that? All architects borrow influence from either their predecessors or contemporaries, and all those ideas are generally derived from nature or other artistic forms. The best designs are the ones that have grown from grass-roots rather than just appeared. He was basically saying not to hesitate jumping onto somebody's concept if you believe your developments can improve the outcome.

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