On Aug 22, 2013, at 5:25 PM, George Torrens <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In the UK, there is the Chartered Society of Designers, who do have some legal mandate to bar those who would call themselves a Chartered Designer. The Society have a clear set of criteria for membership and subsequent Chartered status.
So the law doesn't prohibit non designers from practicing design but rather prohibits non members from pretending to be members of the organization? Not quite the same thing.
> As my colleague Dr Evans has already indicated, common sense suggests that in a commercial market, those who have such credentials will be considered to be able to deliver a realised design solution and make a living as a professional designer.
But his wish didn't seem to be that people with credentials would be held in some consideration. It seemed to be that those without credentials would be prohibited from designing.
That stance always confuses me. When someone says I can't practice law or medicine without a license, I have a pretty good idea what I can't do. When someone says I can't design without a license, I have no idea what I can't do.
Design is a fairly broad term so I'll try the area I'm most familiar with--graphic design. Could an unlicensed person be allowed choose a typeface? Decide on a visual hierarchy? Would someone be arrested for selecting paper without a license? Does this only cover practicing design in the sense of working as an independent contractor for a client or would an administrative assistant at a law firm be prohibited from making the company newsletter? Would the IT person be allowed to make visual decisions about their website or would that be limited to professional designers?
It strikes me that design is like writing in some sense. Nearly everyone can write. Most can't make a living as a professional writer. And most who make a living as a professional journalistic writer couldn't make a living as a professional novelist. Most novelists would starve as advertising copywriters. . . Some people get pissed because they went to school for six years to learn to be writers and a high school dropout says "I'm a writer" but I suspect that the solution isn't to pass a law making it a felony for an unlicensed writer to be caught in possession of Microsoft Word.
Gunnar
Gunnar Swanson
East Carolina University
graphic design program
http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cfac/soad/graphic/index.cfm
[log in to unmask]
Gunnar Swanson Design Office
1901 East 6th Street
Greenville NC 27858
USA
http://www.gunnarswanson.com
[log in to unmask]
+1 252 258-7006
On Aug 22, 2013, at 5:25 PM, George Torrens <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Gunnar,
>
> In the UK, there is the Chartered Society of Designers, who do have some legal mandate to bar those who would call themselves a Chartered Designer. The Society have a clear set of criteria for membership and subsequent Chartered status.
>
> As my colleague Dr Evans has already indicated, common sense suggests that in a commercial market, those who have such credentials will be considered to be able to deliver a realised design solution and make a living as a professional designer.
>
> It is true to say everyone could be a designer, but not everyone could make a living being a designer.
>
> Best wishes
>
> George
>
> Mr George Edward Torrens
> Lecturer
> Year one tutor
> Loughborough Design School
> East Park Design School
> Loughborough University
> Loughborough
> Leicestershire
> LE11 3TU
> Tel. +1509 222 664 Mob. +780 196 1673
> Fax. +1509 223 999
> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/george-torrens/7/3b/524
>
> ________________________________________
> From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Gunnar Swanson [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 22 August 2013 22:01
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Design Thinking Unique to Design?
>
> On Aug 22, 2013, at 4:56 PM, Mark Evans <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> It saddens me that ‘designer’, like ‘architect’, is not a professional title protected by legislation (in the UK Under Section 20 of the Architects Act 1997). But, come the revolution for which I have just become its self-styled leader, one day, it may well be. Viva la revolution; viva le designeur!!!
>
>
> If "designer" were a professional designation protected by law:
>
> What would qualify one to be a lawful designer?
>
> What would be prohibited to a non-designer (i.e., what is the act of design that would be protected by the legislation)?
>
>
> Gunnar
>
> Gunnar Swanson
> East Carolina University
> graphic design program
>
> http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cfac/soad/graphic/index.cfm
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Gunnar Swanson Design Office
> 1901 East 6th Street
> Greenville NC 27858
> USA
>
> http://www.gunnarswanson.com
> [log in to unmask]
> +1 252 258-7006
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]>
> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design
> Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]>
> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design
> Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------
PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]>
Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design
Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|