On the left is the inspiration. On the right is what I came up with.
Inspiration is an odd thing, I don’t know if I’ve ever fully understood what to do with it. Obviously it’s usually the thing that spurs me to begin, but how does it shape and mold what I do?
I needed to create a one-page for a story that I was planning on pitching, and I wasn’t too sure on how I wanted it to look.
Scrolling through some of my old twitter likes, I came across this post which contained the above image. I liked it and decided to get to work.
The original design for my one-page was much more in line with the inspiration, but as I am not that same designer nor is the project the same as the example, my design evolved into something different.
To look at the two images, there is a clear correlation between them. They share a number of the same building blocks, but at the same time they are different. The flair and decoration is different, although the structure and foundation twin each other.
I think this is how you use inspiration.
It’s sort of about recreating what you like. Not creating something identical, that would be plagiarism, but trying to remodel it in your own way.
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