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Re:Show HN: Want to learn design? Try Design Lab. by dorian-graph on Friday May 11, 2012 @11:54PM (#3962687)
> In my experience, of the best ways to get started in design is to replicate other people's designs as perfectly as you can, just to get the hang of designing something good.

In the movie Finding Forrester and aspiring writer is unsure of what to write and has been sitting in front of a typewriter for what seems a few hours.. An experienced one gives him one of his works and tells him to type it. He says sometimes the simple rhythm of typing can get us from page 1 to page 2.

Emulation is wonderful.

Re:Show HN: Want to learn design? Try Design Lab. by pazimzadeh on Saturday May 12, 2012 @12:22AM (#3962746)
Interesting! I got the idea from Hunter S. Thompson, who apparently recopied The Great Gatsby before writing Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson#Early_journa...