Designer or artist

Design is there to make what we want to do, easier to achieve. It’s about creating answers. It’s a means to an end.

Art is there to make us stop, and think, and feel. It’s about creating questions. It’s an end in itself.

Looking at good design, you can feel a mix of the solution being posed, the designer’s personality, and the experience you might have using it in your own projects.

Looking at good art, you can feel a mix of emotions from your own life, arranged by the artist’s feelings, and the experience reveals something to you, about you.

Sometimes, we can mix the two.

But it’s always worth knowing the answer to this question: Am I being a designer, or an artist, in this work?