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Inspiration and creativity is all about absorption and influence from many places and having it filter through your understanding and experience. Then your take, your perspective, voice and aesthetic sense flavors what you are communicating in your designs.
In that sense, every idea comes from somewhere. Nothing comes from nothing because we are humans that are moved by and driven by context.
Fresh ideas vs original ideas is where we land.
The wheel has already been invented—that’s an original idea. How that wheel is expressed, context for use, and the materials that create it is what makes it fresh.
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Senior Analyst 1—appreciate the compliment, thank you!
I’m a writer as much as a visual creator. I love words, nuance of meaning, always have, it helped me build a decent vocabulary, but the biggest part—a desire to communicate precise meaning. It’s a critical need in today’s world and I’m way better as a writer than in-the-moment speaker. I seek clarity in words before contemplating visuals when exploring ideas.
Nailing the exact feeling by word choice and sentence structure is as important to me as a clean, high res image, photoshop masking undetected, every pixel considered.
It’s a passion.
I do agree with the notion that there are no completely original ideas anymore, but I think that truth has always existed and not just now. everyone wore suits, 100 years ago, and people still wear suits today. The forms evolve, but the essence remains.
What’s changed is our obsession with dissecting and labeling every creative act as a reference, a remake, or an homage.
We live in an era of “reference, reference, reference,” and while that awareness can be insightful, it also limits the liberty and freedom in how we express ourselves.
There’s this of facade of originality that is constantly referred to in cultural conversation and it’s turning to this ever following microscope thank to socials and the pulse in society …..on where ideas come from instead of what they feel like.
I believe that people in the past simply did what felt right for them in their time, without needing to justify it as “new.”
If our generation could lean back into that sense of instinct creating not to appear original, but lean into the feel of realness and then maybe we’d rediscover what originality actually means
I don’t look at this as a bad thing. We are all repeating cycles and trends from years ago but remixing them for new audiences to keep them fresh and alive. Core functions are similar if not the same.
No, silly take. There will always be new ideas.
I’m sure many times in history someone could’ve made the same hot take and gotten some head nods.
I think you could take any piece of work and relate it to something else that has already happened. Calls into question how inspiration happens. There are still new and interesting ideas, even if we are obsessed with where they came from.
This is such an impossibly broad claim, it just kind of sounds like whoever’s saying it is giving up and/or trying to justify plagiarism. Everything comes from prior influence, and to the degree you add originality to it or not is what counts for the most, IMO. To posit the question in such stark, black and white terms I think is too shortsighted.