Art technicians: The industry’s dirty secret, or all part of the process?

Re:Art technicians: The industry’s dirty secret, or all part... by mattkevan on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:10AM (#17565866)

The Design Museum in London has pretty much everything Jony Ive ever designed in their permanent collection.

They certainly are art in this context.*

And I'd argue that Apple are one of the few tech companies that genuinely view their products as art objects, as well as being boxes of mass-produced consumer technology.

* There's a wider question about whether the mere act of displaying something in a gallery makes it art, but its one that many fine art postgrads haven't been able to get to the bottom of yet :)

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Re:Art technicians: The industry’s dirty secret, or all part... by flanban on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:44AM (#17566168)

I would argue that the fact it's in a design museum rather than an art museum makes it design in that context.

Speaking very broadly: Designers manifest other people's ideas for money. Art is more when you bring your own ideas into the world because you want to.

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