While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.
Interpretation
Artists have the freedom to engage with others, whereas designers have a responsibility to consider their impact on people.
This quote highlights the distinction between artists and designers in terms of their roles related to society. While artists may choose how they relate to their audience or community, designers are inherently required to be considerate and responsible in their work, as their creations directly affect the lives of others and the environment they function within.
In practice
During a lecture on design ethics, this quote can be referenced to emphasize the accountability designers have in their work.
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.
Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.
Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. Theyβre able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and ideas that people can understand.
We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.
When I came to El Bulli, right away I knew I was becoming part of something incredible. It was like watching the Big Bang happening right in front of me.
Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is over quickly. Style is forever.
I am a member of the Muskogee people. I'm a poet, a musician, a dreamer of sorts, a questioner. Like everyone else, I'm looking for answers of some sort or the other.
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