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Being an interior designer, I have to please my clients by adjusting my designs to their tastes. Sometimes, no matter how much I dislike my clients' visions, I have to make them [the visions] come true because I am paid to do so. All I can do is give them suggestions, since interior design is a profession dealing with designing of residential or commercial interiors customized to suit the budget and needs of the user(s) and the function of the project without sacrificing its aesthetic beauty, which can be achieved through thorough research and analysis, careful planning, considerate and practical selection of resources, and accurate implementation. What am I trying to say? In short, design, unlike art, is driven by money.
In art, the artist usually doesn't care whether or not he or she sells his or her work. As long as he or she expresses himself or herself in the artwork, everything is just fine. If the artist gets commissioned, however, it is still considered art, but if the client dictates to the artist what the artwork should look like, then it is considered design.
Now, to be able to sell your design, it must have the function your client needs. In interior design and architecture, we usually follow Louis Sullivan's dictum, "form follows function." For example, if I were hired to design a café, I wouldn't make it look like a library. Unlike art, design must always be practical and must always fit the requirements of the client as they are paying you to comply with them [requirements].
Let me summarize the last four paragraphs. Money + Function = Design; Freedom of Self Expression = Art.
What I just wrote above is just my opinion on this… issue. Just in case you have any comments on it, I would be more than willing to listen.
Many people can find the difference between art and design but I think it's just a process in the history and it is changing and we should try to realize this kind of change.
Firstly, I think the most improtant thing should not be what is art and what is design.Both the art history and design history are still developing and actually we don't known what is art and what is design(at least I think so when I consider very carefully about this issue).
Secondly, I think what is art and design depends on the artists and the designers and I think no one will doubt that both the artists and the designers belong to the human.
So, the key point is what kind of a person one should be. I think all the developing process of the human-being's history is a process of the construction of humanity.
I think what is the real humanity is a key issue that the research purpose of both art and design want to known.
Everyone's real humanity should be completely equal and it should not just care about itself and also should not just follow the other's request. It should alway try to looking for the truth and always try to help the others to achieve the goal of the truth.
Art and design have become more and more indistinguishable when we have a look at the contemporary art history and design history(art and design after 1945)and our reality nowadays.The Definition of art and design are changing.
We should change the things which should be changed.
The artists should not just simply express themselves, their expression should also based on more social responsibilities.
The designers should not just serve for the clients whatever they want. They should also keep their independent role. Don't work with an asshole and don't become a craftman without any independent thinking ability.
A kind of role as the combinition of artists and designers should be a more contemporay way today.
I imagine that there will be no boundaries between art and design, between artists and designers in the future,which will be a more brightfull world. All of the so-called money and functions should work for the highest ideal.
I think my imagination could be realized as long as no one will learn to become an asshole and no one will continue to connive the assholes anymore.
Good thinking.
There are designers however who are paid to design based solely on their own vision ... and in that case design does equal art.
I guess it's all in how you qualify the question.
... and in that case design does equal art. That should be and in that case art does equal design.
Yup! Music, Dancing, Acting, Cooking... anything that requires skill is considered an art.