Met with a senior designer the other day, and we talked about several design ideas I had, while I asked for criticism and guidance from another self-taught designer.
He had this to say:
"If you see a website you think is cool on coolhomepages.com or whatever blog you read, feel free to try and copy it yourself. Change the colors up a bit, slap a different logo on there and have at it. It's the only way to learn to get the page to do what you want it to do, and you'll learn a lot about composition."
I wondered what he meant in terms of the scope of this plagiarism, as I am very worried I have to come up with an original, stunning design for every brochure-based webpage I do, which is not only a time-killer, it's HARD.
I am by no means a brilliant designer, yet. I don't ooze good ideas like some people I know of but I am getting there.
He went on to say some things about learning the design process, and that "you don't just start drawing and shit out a masterpiece", and I guess this is true.
I never learned to draw and so recently I am learning about the emergent property of design and it honestly is much easier than I thought. For most of my life I really just thought you started drawing a face by drawing the left ear and ending up at the right ear, like a printer does. It's difficult to really wrap my brain around the fact that we are not computers, we do not print out masterpieces and we do not logically follow a set of instructions to it's conclusion and then act upon that conclusion. The fact that there are emotions involved, and an element of chaos- it bothers me. I am not sure why.
So, to wrap up and explain myself, I am not sure about using other peoples work directly, but I think I am now OK with stealing some of their ideas.
Liz out!(I always wanted to say that)
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