This is my thought about the intersection between art and design:
Artists and designers are often mistaken to each other. In some situations, artists can actually be considered as designers and vice versa. They say that artists do art, which is personal products, and they make art to express their own feeling and thought and emotion. In the other hand, designers design their products not for themselves, they make products to serve public purpose, public need, and their aim mainly is to sell their products well, which is a financial reason. Thus in theory, artists and designers are totally different, and I even heard many people say that, designers, in fact, are liars, who tell lies and trick their customers by visual means ( meaning their designs). However, that theory seems like to be true only in the past, nowadays, we can easily point out many artists who make art to sell, and designers who turn their designs into masterpiece. Let me show you some example today, about my favorite artists and designers:
Takashi Murakami (left) and Kanye West
About artists who sell their products, it's clearly to see everywhere now, such as painters sell their pictures, photographers sells their photos, my favorite artist in this subject is
Takashi Murakami (TM). TM is a famous Japanese contemporary artist who is considered as an Andy Warhol of Japan, he got his Ph.D in Fina Art from Tokyo Uni., he does sculpture, he paints, he holds exhibitions all over the world, he is, undoubtedly an example model for Japanese new art. But that's not enough to TM, with an entrepreneur mind, he also joins into the world of advertising industry, TM becomes a designer, he makes his art to sell. His paintings are now be mass published everywhere, in any form ( T-shirt, video games, anime, toys and even chewing gum... ). TM designed cover for Kanye West's "Graduation" album, and collaborated with Louis Vuitton to make an advertising video and designed LV new bag models combining LV luxury and Japanese cute manga character styles. Takashi Murakami and Some example of his works:
Takashi Murakami's homage to Francis Bacon
His $10,000 bag for LV
For more information about Takashi Murakami, you can
visit his company offical english homepageor Takami at the Brooklyn Museum blog article
here 
John Maeda
A example for a designer who has masterpiece products, the most significant individual is John Maeda, you can visit his website at: http://www.maedastudio.com. Being born in Seattle, John Maeda is considered as both an arist and a computer scientist inside the form of a designer. Look at his design and feel the complexity and simplicity he has achieved:
Who can say that they are not masterpieces? Such graphics are not only considered Designs but actually Art. That's the reason why John Maeda is highly appreciated and as a designer, he also has opportunities to hold exhibitions all around the world, because people want to enjoy his designs as art. Now, JM is president of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) ( http://www.risd.edu/president/ ) and is still considered one of the leading designer over the world.
In conclusion, they are 2 significant people represent two types of model reflecting the "no frontier" distance between art and design. In my opinion, Art and design are like two siblings, who have both similarity and difference, however sometimes, people might mistaken them, let say, when two siblings look too alike, or they are twins. After all, they are still differentiated and considered as two individual people (visual type).
Do Thuy Linh _ s3183636
After painting it in Photoshop :
Morning mountains and sky in the countryside..
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