a graphic design tragedy

I am still exploring steps and moments of transformation. When does your thing become my thing. The first few investigations deal with high/low art intersection and appropriating high art conventions.  I am interested in appropriation being accepted as a valid form in fine art and what happens when design adopts high conventions and tools. The later investigations are more varied.

Part 1

I am concerned first with appropriating the substrate, but still using design imagery and reproduction technology.

Then simply framing an appropriated design solution.

This last investigation involves appropriating not only the substrate but also the tools and creating a painting from a design. While this was intended to be about appropriating fine art conventions it also became about craft and lost graphic design conventions.

Part 2

Just a quick sketch about lineage and annotating/citing/acknowledging whence things came from in an overt way, with a borrowed convention.

Part 3

Is this transformed enough to be different or would you say one was borrowing from the other? What if there is nothing new?  (Unless Beruit ripped me off) This is not about appropriation but coincidence and the serendipity of design, or that and we both cribbed Brodovitch and Brockman.

Part 4

In this sketch I am attempting to appropriate google conventions to create the hint of a narrative about appropriation. This kind of idea can be pushed further and starts to communicate a point of view.