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
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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
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