What is the difference between art and design? It is a recurring question for which I could have a new answer every month.
Art is signed, design is not.
This is this month’s answer, and you can read more about it on Otl Aicher’s The World as Design—there is a chapter on it called “the signature”.
Illustration by Silvia Fernández Palomar
Think about how you disagree with this statement.
Think about what a signature means.
Think about the opportunities that not signing your work brings to your current project.
Think about other differences between art and design.