记得有一次去杭州,我去拜访一位曾做过媒体主编的设计师。我抛给他一个问题,关于“设计与艺术”的身份认定。他不假思索否定了自己身上的“艺术家”属性,在他看来,设计与艺术面向的主体不同,设计是要满足使用者的诉求,将机能服务于形式;艺术倒自恣得多,情感是自我的,表达的亦是自我。多年过去了,这段对话成为一段影像,不时在脑海中回放。对面不断变化的设计业态,我时常感到迷思,甚至困惑:到底设计与艺术是怎样的存在与关联?它们的互为影响又是如何产生的?…… I remember once going to Hangzhou, I went to visit a designer who had been a media editor. I throw him a question about the “design and art” identity. In his opinion, the design is different from the subject oriented to the art. The design is to satisfy the demands of the user and serve the function in the function. The art is more and more uninvited and the emotion is Self, expression is also self. Years passed, and the dialogue became an image, playing back from time to time in my mind. Opposite the ever-changing design industry, I often feel puzzled, or even confused: in the end design and the art of what is the existence and relevance? How do they affect each other? ... ...