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harvey · 05-05-2003, 05:36 PM

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Originally posted by UnseenWorld
What I find depressing is that so much design looks the same, especially those dizzying and busy pink and blue splash pages for the teen sites. How about some originality?

I'd say 80% of times is because of the client that doesn't want to risk with anything out of the standard, like in the teen example you mention. Show most people in this board something out of these guidelines and they'll go like an angry mob trying to lynch you just because you used red and black (just an example) colors for a teen site, no matter how good is it. So, most designers go with the crowd just to avoid to redo everything and make the page looks like all other pages in that niche. Furthermore, one of the most common requests to a designer is "I want a site that looks like [put site here]" or even blatants copies (there was a thread about some program which stolen all or almost all the designs from ARS, TCG and the suchs). When I've time, I try to make something original and show it first to the client or as an option. Sometimes it goes thru, sometimes not. But if I'm busy, simply go to the sure shot and it ALWAYS gets accepted. In short: not all the burden must be put on the designer's back

harvey · 05-05-2003, 05:39 PM

btw, the post above should've been: 50! (speaking of originality)

harvey · 05-05-2003, 05:43 PM

another thing: did you notice in the last days a bunch of requests for premade templates? Even if they're spam driven (one of them is for sure), you see several webmasters here interested in going with crowd, fuck originality, so, who's guilty about this lack of originality?

Brujah · 05-05-2003, 05:45 PM

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Originally posted by harvey
another thing: did you notice in the last days a bunch of requests for premade templates? Even if they're spam driven (one of them is for sure), you see several webmasters here interested in going with crowd, fuck originality, so, who's guilty about this lack of originality?

Me. It's my fault.

05-05-2003, 05:39 PM	#52
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05-05-2003, 05:43 PM	#53
harvey Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: 127.0.0.1 Posts: 9,266	another thing: did you notice in the last days a bunch of requests for premade templates? Even if they're spam driven (one of them is for sure), you see several webmasters here interested in going with crowd, fuck originality, so, who's guilty about this lack of originality? __________________ This post is endorsed by CIA, KGB, MI6, the Mafia, Illuminati, Kim Jong Il, Worldwide Ninjas Association, Klingon Empire and lolcats. Don't mess around with it, just accept it and embrace the truth