Art to Design

Few years ago, I had a debate with my friend who was a graphic designer in a design firm on the topic of art and design. Be more precise, our argument was “is designer an artist or is an artist a designer?” She insisted on by implementing graphic art to her work is design. I disagreed with that. My stand was design is more than just art. Art basically satisfy human emotions, but design is more complicate than that. Of course, art works can be part of design, but definitely not all of it. Factors of human behavior are what we need to achieve on designing objects. My definition: If we create something making your eye shine and your emotion high, that’s art. But design, despite of that, we still need to consider the usefulness of objects. It doesn’t mean designed objects have no taste of art. Surely it is also important we apply the sense of arts on to the design. It absolutely helps us to use things often with better feeling. But making things ease to use is our goal for design, isn’t it.