TED Talks Daily 3 ways to create a truly original design | Lope Gutierrez-Ruiz
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Mar 24, 2026 AI Snips
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Why Globalized Design Starts Looking The Same
- Global platforms make creative work converge into the same palettes, retro typography, and illustration styles, turning originality from a nice-to-have into a necessity.
- Lope Gutierrez-Ruiz says connected sharing pushes design trends to look alike across places that once felt visually distinct.
Build Teams From Different Lives Not Similar Portfolios
- Truly embrace teams made of people with different backgrounds, lifestyles, and subcultures to widen how problems get researched and solved.
- Lope Gutierrez-Ruiz's studio partners are a journalist, philosopher, and DJ, and staff live anywhere from the Caribbean to Tokyo to Croatia.
Search Adjacent Fields For Better Creative Solutions
- Look for solutions in adjacent fields instead of the problem's obvious category, because nearby disciplines can unlock fresher forms.
- Lope Gutierrez-Ruiz treats data visualization as animation and editorial work as branding, then used typography to rethink an MIT science poster.