Art/Design Superflex, M/M, Rick Poyner, Experimental Jetset, Kees Dorst--------Combined

Design and Art have always shared a common ground. Some say that Art is Design and others think it is vice versa. In the older times Art and design were one and the same. There are many visually and practically stunning pieces from these times where design fundamentals and art fundamentals worked in unity. Earlier modernist, such as Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, mentioned in Experimental Jetset, wanted to implement on this idea of uniting art and the everyday. This synthesis of art and design would discard the idea that art is just an added decorative layer. Instead, art would be fully integrated in every activity that we participate in. This makes much sense as art and design usually departs from each other along the lines of mere "function". Kees Dorst mentioned how "artist do not aim for any practical application but strive to influence the feeling or thinking of an audience." And she also nailed this subject of design/art when she stated that "artists have effectively turned their self-made challenge into a design problem."
What can be understood from the 2 aforementioned quotes is that designers can learn a great deal from artists and vice versa. This idea itself should be enough to suggest that the merging of art and design would be profitable to both sides of the party. By incorporating elements of art into design, designers can learn how to better influence the feeling and thinking of their audience. By incorporating design fundamentals into art or the processes of creating art an artist can learn to more effectively impose their self in their artworks.