OUGD601 / COP3 / Reading / Howard Risatti - 'A Theory of Craft'

'when critical judgements are made about craft objects they tend to revolve around the fine art notion that functional things cannot be beautiful and therefore cannot be art.'

'This relationship [between craft and design] is important because the design profession, which rose to prominence in the wake of the industrialized machine production, has transformed craft's fundamental relationship to function by taking over production of most of the fuctional objects of daily use.'

Chapter 17: Craftsman Versus Designer

'If the [designer's] plan is realised as a physical entity, it will be by someone else or, more likely, by a machine during the second stage of the operation.' p171

'design is a dialogue between conception and what can and cannot be abstracted into a notional system on paper or computer.' p172

'Designers are compelled to conceive objects for mass production...' p.173

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