Apr 20, 2023
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
… hence the difficulty reconciling art, moreover design and business. Design must work to demonstrate its value by its function and be unambiguous. Art, on the other hand, does not have to work as a universally understood message; ambiguity in this image making is a beautiful thing.
