‘…Design is what occurs when art meets industry, when people begin to make decisions about what mass-produced products should look like…’ – Stephen Bayley
‘…all that we do, almost all the time, is design, for design is basic to all human activity…Design is the conscious effort to impose meaningful order…’ Victor Papanek
What is design to you?
To me, the clear separation between design and art is the involvement or a brief with restrictions that take in account branding, target audience and marketing ect. With this line of separation you can argue that an artwork commissioned by the city council would be ‘designed’ art and another piece of work by the same artist without a brief and is the artist true expression without restrictions would be art.Of course there are always overlapping cases, but to me this is how I seperate the two.
I agree with the first part of Stephen Bayley quote, that ‘design is what occurs when art meets industry’ yet disagree with the rest. The example of a commissioned one off piece of art that was designed/briefed by the city council is not a mass produced product. But clearly this artwork would of be designed to meet the exceptions of that community, and a budget and deadline would of been discussed.
Design can be simplified further to ‘meaningful order’ as Victor Papanek states. For example I’ve designed my computer file structure of all my artworks and design files. I design my outfit for the day, I make a conscious decision to colour coordinate or plan my outfit around the weather.