I ask you... What is the difference between
Art and Design?
Whilst creating decorative prints I was asked to recall the limits set within each. This you may be thinking appears easy at first and you may real off many a definition:
DESIGN - problem solving, creating solutions to improve the quality of life, part of everyday life
ART - aesthetic, personal, and everyday phenomena
The list is endless, personally I think there are many blurred boundaries in which they overlap. For example, after looking into the work of
Claire Coles I have become interested in the process of wallpaper design. Surely, like most fashionable items, interior design contains many artistic designs and processes.My current project is
entitled '
place, object, space' which I believe wallpaper can be applied specifically to. Walls create a space of their own, and become an object in the process. Surely wallpaper designs start with drawings and collections of source materials, colour palettes etc. So how do large scale paintings, prints, collages etc (all considered 'art' pieces) differ from wallpaper (design).Wallpapers are created for a specific purpose, fit specific dimensions, and often created a mass market. Wall paper designs go back in history an awful long way and were considered a sign of wealth and status. The earliest wallpapers in England were created as individual sheets, printed with black ink, on pale paper with geometric designs, printed with wood blocks.
Take a look around, wallpaper has developed DRAMATICALLY and has become a successful form of industry, linked closely to furnishings and fashion.
You can argue however, art (for example sculpture) can be created for a specific site/space, like wallpaper.
What do you think....?
Screen Print and Soft Ground Etching 
Soft Ground Etching, with 'Stop Out Varnish' mask
Carbarundum Plate 
Carbarundum Print (wallpaper impression) 
Can you see the elements within my logo?
