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Re: background vs design

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Terence Love <[log in to unmask]>

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Tue, 16 Sep 2014 21:30:30 +0800

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Hi Carlos,

 I think I agree with the general tone of what you are saying if I
understand you right.

The origin of the 'Art and Design' terminology, in the UK at least occurred
sometime soon after the start of the industrial revolution. The ability to
mass produce products resulted in the need for products to not just work but
also be attractive to wealthy customers. That is to align with the
appearance of the interior décor of expensive houses and the fashionable
clothes of the wealthy within. This led to the employment of industrial
artists who added 'designs' to the surface appearances of products, machines
and any creation of the industrial revolution whose appearance needed
beautifying. Much of the training of that time  needed by these industrial
artists creating designs on the surface of products was similar to that
needed by artists and private schools started up to teach 'Art and Design'
that were very closely associated with Art education. The design of the
products beneath their surfaces was the exclusive preserve of engineering
designers.

There is a separation line between designers that use mathematics and those
that do not. Typically, those that are not taught mathematics as part of
their education in design activity are those that were previously seen as
'Art and Design'.

I've suggested (strongly!) that it would be helpful to move that boundary
and have increased mathematics education in those design fields in which it
is absent.

The other way, there has been a fairly strong thrust to include Art and
Liberal Arts education in the design realms that use mathematics for at
least 40 years.

It will be interesting to see how increased involvement in meaning making
sides of design changes meaning making, and how meaning making becomes
adopted in more mathematical sides of design.

My guess is they will come together in computer automated design software
within the decade and perhaps a lot sooner.   I can see this as a sort of
'select the product type and click the words that you associate with the
meaning you want to communicate, and then choose one  of the 5 design
solutions that have been automatically produced for you by the software'.

The interesting design work will be designing the software. . . .

Best wishes,
Terry

 

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Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2014 6:02 PM
To: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related
research in Design
Subject: Re: background vs design

Dear Terry,

On 16/09/2014, at 07:15, Terence Love wrote:

> knowledge'.  I was suggesting that clarity  and theoretical embodiment 
> (if that is ontologically possible) about this difference is still 
> developing in Art and Design.  It seems to be clearer in for example 
> textile  and fashion

In discussing this particular topic, I think we must ditch, once and for
all, the term "Art and Design". The mere act of using this expression
obliterates centuries of human history. It's bad for Art. It's bad for
Design.

For starters, Art has a very specific place in culture, regardless of the
way you look at it. Its motivations and implications are absolutely
un-conflatable with any other human activity. Its history, though
intertwined with every other aspect of culture, is unique.
We should be aware that there is a huge semantic problem with the english
word "Art", because it is used as a label for every pictorial expression, no
matter how far removed it might be from actual "Art".

I know that some people might pick up the "semantic" thread and pull on it
in, to try to unravel my argument. Well, there's another problem with saying
"Art and Design": it stopped being used 20 years ago. The cool kids don't
use it anymore. And given the fact that communication is based on
convention, when you use a dialect of your own, nobody will understand you.

> The above difference occurs in say Graphic Design,  in the difference 
> between 'color theory' (type a)  and 'the use of  color theory by a 
> human while designing' (type b), or in typography  the difference 
> between 'information about leading, font metrics, kerning and 
> typefaces' (type a) and  'design activity involved in setting text so 
> that when it is printed it feels like it has a  clear information 
> hierarchy and the page has even greyness in the body blocks' (type b).


Again, this is a type of remark that shows you are not focusing your efforts
in understand what design is, and how it is possible that something like
"Communication Design" can exist.
I don't see any problem in the existence of:
—Aerospatial design
—Architectural design
—Communication design
—Engineering design
—Fashion design
—Graphic design
—...

The problem you seem to have in understanding communication design is
probably related to the immaterial nature of communication. That's what is
DESIGNED in communication design: meaning (as it was already pointed out by
a few people in here).
And that type of work, i.e., design meaning, is done at a systemic level.
The example you tried shows you are reaching out to that systemic quality of
design, but your puzzlement shows you didn't reach it.

You can take comfort in the fact that you are not alone in this puzzlement.
Great minds before you already showed that same failure to understand the
interconnectedness of matter and information that renders communication
possible.
Saussure and Peirce, for instance. They couldn't come to grips with it.

But that was 120 years ago. Shall we move on?


Best regards,

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Carlos Pires

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