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Learning Through Stealing: how to become better...

Sara Cannon
November 01, 2015

Learning Through Stealing: how to become better at your craft.

In art class we were taught to copy the masters such as Da Vinci, Van Gough, and Caravaggio. This taught us skills like technique, form, & contrast. The same principle applies to learning any skill – steal from the masters and learn from it.
In this design-focused talk, we’re going to explore a few methods of sharpening our skills and intuition. Design, code, & user experience can all be improved when we take a deeper look into successful implementations. We’ll analyze some methods and steal a few things along the way – learning how to truly make it our own.

Sara Cannon

November 01, 2015
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  1. - T. S. ELIOT Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal;

    bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. “