Good designers copy

As a graphic designer your pretty much taught the same way. The only way to survive and keep up with other designers is by taking ideas and manipulate them to your liking. Of course you need to be careful on what you take and manipulate since there are copyright laws. As long as you change something enough to your own design then you will be protected.

Its funny they mention Picasso since most of his cubism work is almost replications from Georges Braque. If you look at when the pieces were done Braque would come out with a painting then a year later Picasso would almost replicate it. It’s interesting though how Picasso became the more famous.

Web site ideas

For the most part I’m wanting to get across the style that I’ve picked up and carry it through the design of the site. It will mainly consist of the urban grunge style that will help display and aid my gallery.

The first one I call, “Indiana Jones,” carries the earth tones that I love to use in most my stuff. I also love vintage looks so I brought in a nice paper texture a used a lot of vivid light filters, masks, and lighting effects. For the site I will want an about, gallery, and a contact page for the 3 main pages. For the main page it will concentrate on news and updates. Updates being a nice flash animation that will do fades of the new works that I have lined up or have been doing in my spare time. The gallery will break off into 5 categories: logos, photoshop, illustration, traditional, and video.

My second one is “Dark alley” and is a more dark and grungy theme. The dark grays also give off class and simplicity.  This will have the same layout as “Indiana Jones” just a different skin.

Finally “heavenly rooted” is a clean style using a white theme with some root design in the background. Looping a more organic, circular toolbar on the left helps keep the design flow smoothly.