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Wilson Miner
CreativeMornings, 2015
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With a spoonful of self-deprecating humor and some colorful language, digital designer Wilson Miner recalls past experiences to explain that appropriation, though it gets a bum rap, isn’t all bad. Miner delivers an entertaining warts-and-all presentation to highlight the relationship between appropriation and collaboration – an exceptionally apt topic for the digital age. getAbstract recommends Miner’s talk to creatives and anyone whose work involves collaboration.

Summary

When Wilson Miner was in eighth grade, he submitted a poem to his school’s literary magazine. However, he hadn’t written the poem. Rather, he had taken the lyrics from the song “White, Discussion” by rock group Live and tried to pass them off as his own. The student editors recognized the work and rejected Miner’s submission. When he reflected on why he’d done this, Miner explained that he wanted to have written that song so badly that he convinced himself he had done so.

Appropriation means taking something someone else created and making it your own either by pilfering it, like Miner...

About the Speaker

Wilson Miner is director of digital design at The California Sunday Magazine. He previously worked as a designer at Facebook and Apple.

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