The Art of Design

The art of design is a social message, like a drinkable postcard to send to Africa. The art of design is tangible art. Design is the medium, it gives to art the comprehensibility of its form; everyday objects are canvases to draw ideas on. A rosary, a hat, a mirror, a book. The art of design is a piece of furniture of Mimmo Paladino made for those that just want to be left alone.
The art of design is when design stops trying to invent new shapes like when Alessandro Mendini does not design a new armchair, but instead decorates an already existent one. "In many cases I adopt the method of an artist... I am convinced that resolving the function is easy, but that resolving the expression is very difficult."