Terrence:
Design and Art are related disciplines and always have been. They tend to
use similar abilities--such as sketching, modeling, aesthetic acuity, and
conceptual thinking. There is also overlap. For example, if an artist is
asked to create a piece of public sculpture with some very specific
constraints--scale, budget, even content, the artist is doing a design
project? If a designer creates a one-of a-kind piece of furniture to
communicate a unique philosophy or perspective is this not an "Art" project?
I would say that the relationship between Design and Art is analogous to
the relationship between Physics and Math.
-Ben
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Benjamin G. Pratt
Professor, Design
The University of Wisconsin-Stout
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