I, Design (PART 1)
PART 1
Known as a “Pattern with a Purpose”, design is a natural tendency with specific and often methodical approaches to arriving at a goal.
But what drives us to design? What is this innate urge to find order out of chaos? And why can designers never agree on what is “Good” design?
For if this is something so universally experienced and naturally occurring, why is there no utopian constant for design?
Perhaps we should sneak a glimpse behind the doors of time, before the waking of design. Back when the world of man was eclipsed by the birth of its capricious brother known as “Art”.
Image 1 - Altamira Cave Painting
Art began as a form of visual replication in a time before the invention of photographs. As artists began to refine their craft, they grew tired of the dreary forms and sincere lines which seemed to plague the aesthetics of our reality.
Image 2 – Winged Victory or Nike of Samothrace
Then as if upon a single night, as an artist lay upon his bed in midnight weary, he had a vision of empyreal vistas and heavenly hosts. A figure of Man perched upon clouds in divine rapture and angels of chubby delight swooned as the colours depicted the spectrum of a supernatural habitat. Thus did man transcend the aesthetics of his mortal coil, and sought to depict the angels and celestials with glorious oils.
Image 3 – Sistine Madonna
Naturally the first artists were slammed by the first Art critics.
“How could those tiny wings propel an infantile glutton as such!”
They would say.
“Why does heaven look like Saturday night at the Louvre?”
Some would enquire.
“And why does this Michelangelo guy keep telling us that he’s a sculptor? His paintings are much more realistic!”
And the painter would simply sigh at the mess of critique and chew on his paints. Maybe even slice off an ear lobe or two.
Amidst the seeming chaos, a strange denominator arose among the Art folk. Though no one could decide whose Art was “Better”, the artist’s fame and the value of his works would skyrocket after his often miserable and sometimes suicidal demise. Perhaps the work of an artist was like the seed which hid in ripened fruit on a dying tree. When the artist falls and collides into the ground in tragic rupture, the seed springs forth, takes hold in the cold earth and rises hence to a glorious becoming. Is good Art more prevalent in the absence of its maker? Or is good Art the derivative of scarcity? Anyway, man realised the painfully meagre conditions as an artist of Art, and soon a strange creature would take centre stage in the play and shape the very face of commercial entities.
Behold the birth of the designer! Moulded in the likeness of his predecessor, this hungry entity clad in a black shirt and blue jeans combination seemed motivated by a most peculiar motive, he was driven by money! “How absurd an idea,” the Art folk grumbled, “Everybody knows artists feed on passion alone.”
The very idea that Art would be driven by commercial influences was the birth of Design, as this new form of Art would distinguish itself through its purpose as an application of Art.
To Be Continued….
Appendix
Image 1 - A bison from the Altamira cave ceiling is one of the oldest paintings in pre-history. It caused a dispute in the late 19th century, as many people did not believe prehistoric man had the intellectual capacity to produce any kind of artistic expression. Source – Wikipedia.org
Image 2 – The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace,[1] is a second century BC marble sculpture of the Greekgoddess Nike (Victory). Since 1884, it has been prominently displayed at theLouvre and is one of the most celebrated sculptures in the world. Source – Wikipedia.org
Image 3 - Sistine Madonna, also called The Madonna di San Sisto, is an oil painting by the Italian artist Raphael, one of the three great masters of the Renaissance.
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This is what your artist is for. Take your ideas, basic dsiegn and anything you have to him/her, and he’ll be able to draw up something for you. This should be worked into the cost of your overall tattoo. There are no sites that I know of because this is part of the artist’s job. And if there are, they certainly won’t be for free. The only thing I can think of is that sometimes on deviantart.com I’ve seen people saying under their dsiegns that they do commissions for tattoo dsiegns, so you could have a hunt around in the tattoo dsiegn section and see if you could find anybody who does it. But once again, it won’t be for free, so you really may as well just see your own artist where you won’t have to pay (or only a deposit) and you can sit and have a proper chat and watch him drawing and direct him as he goes.
well I prefer more urgfiative stuff personally but I can paint in any given style. I think these are good examples of their kind but, their main success is derived from their interior decorative value. vis: house wall decorations. This I admit I dont seem to achieve, mine are stand alone’ specimins perhaps.Two ingredients seem to make for artistic success, One is interior decoration value, the other investment value, outside of those categories you are going to at least have a big struggle.