When it comes right down to it, design is about making decisions, right?
This goes beyond just graphic design. I was sitting in a certain room in my house staring at the linoleum tiles on the floor when I re-realized that everything in our lives are designed. From the linoleum tiles and layout of my house to the public policies and laws of the community. The former involves architecture and interior design, while the latter is design of something more ideal than physical.
When congresspeople make laws, they are designing the way we live and behave. They made those decisions; that’s design.
When we choose to go out instead of staying in to study for a big test, we’re designing the course of our future; there’s a decision made there as well.
When we figure out what we want to eat for dinner tonight, we’re designing the future of our bodies. Another decision.
While I still agree with Michael Bierut that “[n]ot everything is design. But design is about everything,” since it is stated in a different context, I now also believe that almost everything involves decision making of some sort, and therefore it is design.
Am I stretching this relationship too far? I’ve been trying to push for the fact to other people that design is more than style, and I want to get a good, satisfactory definition of “design” and “graphic design” for myself first.
Flush.
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