Its my impression that we need to rethink the whole premise of what we
sanctify as design and as art. Even in this conversation there seems to be a
blur. There is plenty of "art" that lacks intention, is filled with the
desire of commodity, and design that is reaches or touches the sublime.
There is a strange parallel betw the crisis that occurred with Minimalist
artworks and happenings in design today.
Is it possible that at the threshold of the 21c we have in fact finally
entered a new terrain where we must re-inscribe or very seriously reconsider
what moves one. What is art? What is design?
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:21 AM, NICOLAS MAKELBERGE <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Thanks for the "design is the opposite of everything else a designer
> doesn't do to earn a living." Glenn :)
>
> Hi
>
> Initially I would like to define design as boring as any human endeavor
> wich results in something created with
> any material imaginable.
>
> For a "design" to become art I guess it has to mean a lot to us. Something
> we truly cheerish in the profoundest sense. Something which helps wants them
> to continue living, gives them hope and an experience of the beauty of the
> world and a sense of meaning.
>
> Art is goosebumps :) Few things "designed" give us goosebumps, those that
> do, are designed by true artists.
>
> Best
>
> N.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 4:21 PM
> Subject: the opposite definition
>
>
>
> Gunnar wrote:
>>
>> People use the phrase "art and design." Can anyone tell me what that means
>> or includes?
>>
>> Can't what design means to us individually - be left to our own
>> imaginations?
>>
>> i deliberately used the phrase 'art of engineering' (it could have been
>> architecture, etc) to blur the fact that design/art/engineering/creation
>> can become 'as one' in the process of creation.
>>
>> 'design is the_art_of exceptional engineering'
>>
>> Does a definition indeed have to actually define? - many things mean what
>> we individually intend them to mean.
>>
>> 'style' would be a very good example of that. 'talent' would be another.
>>
>> a designer has a 'natural' talent for style. :-)
>>
>> we could even use the reverse scenario:
>>
>> design is the opposite of everything else a designer doesn't do to earn a
>> living.
>>
>>
>> Best, Glenn Johnson
>>
>>
>>
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