From the evolution of many different references. Don’t get it? Then read on and you shall find out. Though I’m sure some might have already guess what I’d be talking about.
You know how many designers or clients or people put forth the claim, “that’s original..” Well, it isn’t really. I think we’ve come a longer way from decades ago to claim something as original anymore. I think originality has become extinct on its own. We might’ve gave birth to originality ever since the discovery of anything new but in the world of design today, I’m truly believing the word original shouldn’t exist anymore.
Commenting or stating someone’s work online for original shouldn’t be taken as a totally new idea. It should be understood as an evolved idea or concept that has been churned out from the designers mind through the process of their senses. There isn’t just one method to generating an idea. Some people think about an idea, get lost, have a new idea, get lost again and end up finding a better idea for the first.
What I’m getting at is the last step of such a process, which is the Illumination process. The state when our mind just hits it off with something unique though it’s really just an evolution of what we’ve thought about with extras added after the absorption from our surroundings.
If you’re already very much confused, all I’m trying to say is that though designers might have works that resemble someone else’s, they’re not exactly a copy. A copy would mean every single element has been repeated and this is the same though elements have been rearranged in a minor manner. For instance, if someone used my design but moved the search to the left, it should be considered a copy. If the person shrunk the search, placed it to the left and improved it in design then that is an evolution of an idea.
I hope you’re understanding this post of how originality today is more related to evolution than the originality years of before. We’re inspired by other peoples works. We’re inspired by our surrounding. We then use our senses to help evolve an idea we have into something we might call original if we, ourselves, haven’t come across it. On the Internet today in terms of design, I don’t think there’s really anything ‘oldly’ original.