Today I was thinking about this concept for many different reasons. As a trained Graphic Designer and a closet artist and poet the topic while in school tended to come up a lot. At the time I wasn’t too clear on the real difference’s between the two. However I feel that recently I have experienced the real difference between these two forms of visual expression. I found an interesting article on the AIG site you can read it hear it dates back to 2006, but I don’t think these types of articles ever loose there relevance.
I think for me the simplest way to differentiate the two is that Art has no rules, it represents freedom. Design on the other hand has some rules. And to me though the differences seem slight, freedom vs. not freedom is huge.
After reading that article I read through some of the comments and discovered how people just think to much about all this and have to have big words and smart fancy historic things to say about everything. But at the end of the day Art just is and I think that is how it should stay. That is what keeps it sacred. Especially now in a world were everything is so superficial, commercial about money, status, needing things. It is refreshing and maybe hopeful that art is something we as humans can create that will keep its integrity and ours.
I am reading a wonderful book right now, Tao of Pooh. It is funny how certain books come to you at a time when you feel you need them most. And how fitting that it should be this one. “A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own learning.”
