Hello again
I just wanted to add a little to what i said earlier about artists not understanding designers- of course what I meant to say is that some artists don't understand 'design' thinking (and therefore put it down) just as some designers don't understand 'art' thinking (and ditto).
I would also like to say (following on from the great comments below) in my rather unguarded, arguably too emotional way, that for sure, academic 'disciplines' are ways of differentiating cultural and professional practices, pedagogy, literature, tools and methods etc.
They are also manifestations of the senses - of neural pathways. They are ways to inhabit one's body and live life...
I for one don't want to live in a body that doesn't feel moved and influenced by art...
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>>> Terence Kavanagh 13/06/10 10:17 PM >>>
Colleagues
Just to return to the beginning of this thread:
David Pye in 'The Nature and Aesthetics of Design' [Barrie and Jenkins, London. 1978] is worth consideration in this respect. It's still, I believe, a great read.
"Design is neither a problem-solving activity nor an art. It is both. All arguments about what designers ought to do seem bedevilled by the habit of a mind which thinks 'either...or'
either all intuition or all logic, either all artist or all problem solver. This is extremism, and extremism in any cause whatever, good or bad, is evil". [p.94]
and....
"But many times the two parties to the controversy, the artist and the problem solver, are both together in one skin. Every good designer is made up of both. Nor does he think of art as God and problem solving as Mammon, but thinks of the two as inseparable parts of one whole, like the mind and body of man, each dependent on each other and each affecting the other. He does not think there is room for both. He knows there is need, absolute necessity for both". [p.95]
and off the top of my head.....
I reckon that Lowey; Glaser; Montezemelo [not strictly a designer- more a design leader]; Sotsass; Ive; Mellor; Koolhass; Hewlett; Miyake; Wrikkala; Day [Lucienne and Robin] to name a tiny few, would agree.
[You won't have difficulty adding your own favourites to the list!].
Best wishes
Professor Terence Kavanagh
Dean of Faculty for Social Sciences and Humanities
Chair of Design and Applied Arts
Loughborough University
PS: As with most design schools in the UK we are holding our undergraduate degree shows and I refer you to the web-sites: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/service/publicity/degreeshows/ & http://www.twentytendesign.co.uk/
and...
I strongly recommend:
http://pmbryan.com/
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