Steal, Make Sense

I’m an Interactive Media Design student, lately I finished a UNESCO World Heritage website. Website: http://madrabbit-art.com/

The idea of my website is ‘stole’ from some retro art style of website. Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon gives me an idea of being a great artist (or a designer) is ‘stealing’ from others idea and transform and combine it into self work. “Inspiration” in a term is a very broad way to describe it, hence, I can say that I inspire by a design instead of saying I copy from a design. A good designer will copy from other design but a great designer will ‘steal’ it what he/she wants. He also said that there is no such thing of completely original as we live in a remix culture, example like the idea of collage art.

                                                  The home page of my website

                              These are the references I took for my website design

 Collage art itself is not an original things, it also took element from different places and placement played by the artist. What’s really makes it original is something new to the public, but after the repetition of the work, it loses its originality.

Our lecturer told us to find references from other designs, do mood board and cites all the sources we used, before step into designing stage. As a professional designer, we can’t skip these progresses of making a website. We learn techniques and mistakes by doing research then we can do a better design. 

Source:

YouTube, (2014). Steal Like An Artist: Austin Kleon at TEDxKC. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oww7oB9rjgw [Accessed 27 Dec. 2014].