Kyle Meyer’s interesting statement in that there’s no trend in design but “merely an illusion of one” because there’s a large group of people who he refers to as “stylists” in the design field.

Stylists are people who are technically proficient with the tools of the trade to create design, but lack knowledge of the design process. Rather than applying the process they simply find something they find cool at the time and reproduce a spin-off of it.

Drawing inspiration from other people’s work assumes that you follow along the lines of any element that you might have found appealing and make it your own without the feeling that it will compete or be compared with the original. I think we’re all guilty of being a ‘stylists’ at least once.