Pastiche Synchronicity Or Conceptual Appropriation reworking the idea

Many practitioners produce pieces of work that sometimes have a similar concept, or designers re-contextualize other peoples ideas and concepts.

When you mimic and imitate many elements of a practitioners known piece of work, this is called Pastiche. Personally, I see this to be copying. It's taking most of the elements of a practitioners work, and reproducing the design, there's no development with the concept and drastic changes to make it differ from the original idea.

(Above showing painting by Leonardo Da Vinchi)

http://www.monalisamania.com/art.htm

The Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinchi, is one of the most reproduced art work of all time, done in different types of mediums. Above is an oil painting done by Richard Krause, where it's clear the artist has imitated the artwork closely making slight changes.  

Synchronicity is two or more notions coincidentally created, without being aware practitioners have synchronised the same ideas that are unrelated. This could happen when designers potentially have the same thought process about a direction there exploring. Whilst developing there ideas they coincidentally come up with the same concept, having no intention of copying, and are unaware someone has thought of the same idea already by chance. 

Conceptual Appropriation is where a designer is influenced by a practitioner, and imitates there work to a certain extent but reshapes the idea in their own style to re-contextualize the design by extracting specific parts of the design and adding their own twist on it, to make their work differentiate from where the designer was influenced from. "It's not where you take things from, it's where you take things to," it's about how much you take elements of the idea, develop it in a different perspective and adapt it to the audience your aiming at. Conceptual Appropriation is used by many designers to enable them to develop there own ideas further by being influenced with different aspects of practitioners designs.

http://www.noblahblah.org/?tag=si-scott

This is an example of Conceptual Appropriation, where I was influenced by Si Scott with the use of his own detailed pattern to create a visual outcome. Here I have taken the concept of using a pattern to create a visual image, but I have illustrated and developed my own pattern in a much less detailed way, differentiating my art work in comparison to Si Scott.