Are There Designs On You?

designthe arrangement of elements or details in a product or work of art

The answer would be yes, even if you are wearing a burlap sack. There would be a hole center top for your head, holes on the sides for your arms. That sack has a double design and use history: someone came up with a practical sack shape made of durable material to contain something. Then someone cut three holes in it to make a garment for you, and aesthetics be darned. However, embroider it with an all over design of red roses and trumpet vine - it has become a work of art in the eye of the beholder, at least.

Design is found in many places. You have a certain hairstyle, designed in the latest cut, curl, or straight manner. You may be wearing earrings or other ornaments on yourself in various places according to the latest trends, either requiring piercing or not. Tattoos, plain or intricate are designs as well as products, and many of them are also art.

The utilitarian items we see around us at home, as well as the most complicated and beautiful ones that we see and use, or covet, anywhere, have been and are designed. What designed item in your living space most pleases your eye? What have you given or thrown away because you didn't like its appearance? What kinds of design catch your eye?

Design is everywhere, it threads its way throughout the Arts, together with its necessary sibling, Technology.