Design as a Conversation

Indeed, the sun is down. Above is a clip of Yoko Ono and Lady GaGa combining their talents of singing and creating what you see above. When I first listened to this video clip, I was in design class. I was quite confused in the beginning to why we were listening to this and how it tied into design. Mr. Housefield, my design teacher, later explain a main quality that this clip signified and that is crucial to design in general, communication. Communication is normally seen either verbally or written but not typically associated with visual images transferring information from one to another. Design needs communication to maintain a conversation with the intended audience based on the design presented, conveying the designers view of the world, of a specific topic etc.
Being a source of communication, design is such a broad topic to start a conversation with. Design can be a great source of conversation such as using the example above. One might start to talk about the design of Lady GaGa's extravagant clothing, or the design of the lyrics that are being used to converse between Lady GaGa and Yoko Ono. Conversation dealing with the design of many things is simple, starting with simply looking and analyzing at the design of an object. Questions that can run through people's minds looking at a design might be "What is this used for?", "What was the designer thinking when he was creating this design?" or "What does this design stand for?" Design is a simple way to convey what one is thinking or what one believes, commencing the conversation between a designer's audience. Having a visual design, it makes a conversation easy to have because one's opinion can be backed up with parts of the design, the color, the shape, the images that are being portrayed, etc. Design is a conversation between a designer and the world, commencing the conversation with the design.

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