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"How to be more creative" gets searched 81,000 times per month on Google. That's a lot of searches, but creativity isn't actually very hard at all (+ it's quite fun). Let's talk about it.
Originality is just undetected plagiarism.
Everything you see is either a remix or a combination. This can be especially true in the digital age, where technology makes it easier to borrow from others and incorporate their work into our own.
While it is true that technology has made it easier to share ideas and creative works, this does not mean that originality is lost or unattainable.
Rather, it means that the boundaries of creativity have been expanded and that we now have the ability to draw upon an ever-increasing source of inspiration from the works of those who came before us.
In this way, we can pay homage to those who have gone before us while producing something that is truly our own.
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This way of thinking challenges us to think more critically and deeply, both about the works that have come before us, and about our own creative pursuits.
By examining the art and ideas of the past, we are able to draw inspiration that can be used in order to craft something new. This, in turn, gives us the opportunity to find more inventive and innovative ways of expressing our own ideas and contribute to the ongoing conversation between the past and present.
Take this color application and visual language from TwoByEight on Dribbble.
Change up the layout and some of the visual language, and change the hue to blue.
Take this layout from Christopher Doyle & Co.
And this style of photography from Aimé Leon Dore
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