Eat. Sleep. Design. And Repeat.

The troublesome (a pretty annoying) part of creativity, particularly in design, is that one person's idea is another person's as well. The likelihood of an idea being twins or quadruplets are essentially quite high. Why? Because we live on the same planet. Our inspirations comes from the same sources. Searched high and low, unique concepts are hard to come by, but when they do, they will hit you hard in the face and the stomach that the only thing you can do is spill a smile. The most irritating factor of it all, like the chicken and the egg situation, which one of the two was created first, provoking obvious questions, such as, "Was it copied? Was it stolen? Was it influenced by it?"; they come pouring out, quite generously and vocally. Gasp! OMG! WTF! Ew! Ouch! Uh... No!

For the designer, who obviously went through a semi-thorough research didn't come across it, know nothing of its existence, is now deemed a copycat and a "criminal". And, needlessly, have to (must) restart or at least dig extremely hard in their brain's crevasses to find an adaption or alteration. 

 

Sometimes our brains play games as well; popular online sites like Pinterest, Tumblr makes so easy and forgettable as we're saving ten thousand images into our "Inspiration" folders that the memory of something we saw gets rendered into something we think we thought of on our own. It happens. Like everything else in our lives. Was it dream sequence or did it actually happen? Was it her who told me the story or was it his? 

 

Solution? Nothing scientifically. Just basic sense: delete and startover; erase and startover. Pour me another coffee and sleepless nights. Thanks.