Since Design 1 has been focusing so far on the “BIG” questions of design, the “who, what, where, when, why, and how,” I feel it appropriate to say that “the who” is us students, “the who” is you reading this blog, YOU can design, and YOU can design anything you want to design. Designing is limitless and nothing can be designed to perfect. There is always something to change, always improvements to be made. Design is ever changing. This leads me into my subject today: Andy Warhol. It might sound a little cliché for me to say that I have a medium to large obsession with Andy Warhol. Sure, every artist, designer, even none artistic student has a poster of his art tacked up to their dorm room wall (myself included, though now I live in an apartment, but my Warhol posters from my dorm room last year have moved with me), but I can say with 100% conviction that I LOVE Andy Warhol’s work. Warhol crossed the barrier between design and art and made the two basically synonymous. As you can see from my previous post about my AP Studio Art portfolio, I researched a lot of Andy Warhol’s work, including going to a gallery in San Jose that had an exhibition of his pieces on, before starting my own collection. Warhol designed art that changed the course of art as we used to know it. For me, Warhol answers the question, “Who makes design?” He shows society that anyone can make design, and that designing something does not only mean designing a building or designing a chair. He designed art and made people rethink what design and art are. Since design is made by humans, everyone and anyone can design something.
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