April 25, 2005

Design is art with a purpose. You know we spent 4 years in school trying to figure that out, in the end no one told us what design really is. Design is a collective of things; what design represents changes over time. Something as vague as design cannot be described in a chunk of text. I prefer the short but emcompassing definitions; such as "art with a purpose." I see design as art, with a function attached to it. Most people distinguish "art" and "design" with this criterion as well; art being the raw and pure expression of emotions, and design being the visualization of rational and logical thinking. But what if the purpose of a design is to express purely raw emotions, then what is the distinction between art and design?