A visual investigation of the invisible boundaries set between design and art. This project is an exploration of how the boundaries of art and design have the ability to be blurred through intermedia, the use of design practice and medium in art and design visa versus, exhibiting design as art and the role of commercial design. Through the questioning of the self and other in design practice this project explores design and art as disciplines, critically probing where the boundaries in art and design practice lie.
A series of screen-prints, that were created from numerous receipts taken over the period of six days and complied into type, shape, form, line and texture prints that question the place of the creative within the design. When all six screen-prints are put together in the correct order the viewer will be able to see a secret message that reveals the word ‘design’.
The use of social media has become fundamental in presenting both artists and designers work alike, it is often how both parties gain commercial work, yet it is also a place for designers and artists to show their skill set. With some design now being produced for social media, the medium of the poster is social media and the medium of social medium becomes design.
This project reflected upon medium as a means to distinguish between design and art practice, this was explored through a conceptual design book that played with the use of various mediums and typographic symbols. The concept design book explores whether there was a definite boundary in the mediums used by designers and artists, using a 130mm by 130mm small scale format, in which the viewer can flick through the typographic symbols in list format.
