HOW INSPIRATION KILLED, THEN ATE, CREATIVITY

August 13, 2010 - Permalink

via viget

This is a terrifically true article, especially recently coming from design school.

I wanted to add something to it. Being inspired by other design work takes away those “what if” moments. Instead of being free and uninhibited towards new ideas, you see ideas that already exist completely in the real—complete, whole, finished.

It’s hard to think “what if” when we’re pre-occupied by thinking about what is.