Designers are inspired by the work of others.
We're not talking plagiarism here, but that "Ahh! Cool - sorta like that!" moment when you get a clue of what direction to start your own traveling... A Go-By example gets adapted to different needs and warped by different circumstances; the final design will resemble the original inspiration in some ways, differ in others. Design is an adaptive art.
Inspiration discussed a few days ago with a colleague? Piranesi. Famous for beautiful etchings of Roman ruins and of imaginary prisons...
I suspect Piranesi's visions influence many designers of "dark" material like Sweeney Todd or locations like the Phantom's lair - possibly Tim Burton's Batman? certainly my own Man of La Mancha's prison:
photo by Mark Oristano, courtesy of WaterTower Theatre
There was a show of his work at SMU's Meadows Museum a year or two ago, the etchings themselves both amazingly detailed and obscure, murky, almost black in their deep, shadowy, frightening, endless...
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