”Same same but better?”

This project is an investigation into copying versus inspiration of design, with particular emphasis on jewellery.

Most commercial design companies uses designed original products to develop their own products. Many products becomes copied but the companies clame that they are solely inspired.

Is there an established boundary between copying a product and just being inspired by one?

What happens when an independent designer uses the commercial companies design method by copying their products to create new, maybe even better, ones? 

I have invited 11 professional and indipendent jewellery designers to each make a unique piece of jewellery, that are inspired or copied from a mass produced, low price, commercial brand jewellery.

This project will be exhibited at Röhsska Museet together with my own work on the same subject.

The exhibition runs from 1st Oct – 9th Nov 2008 at Röhsska Museet in Gothenburg.

http://www.lammgard.se/designmuseum/tillfuts.htm