August 21, 2012 - What is Design?

Above is the Chicago Cathedral, and buildings such as this do well at asnwering the question of what is design. In basic terms, Design is simply the plan or creation for something one has thought up for any particular object, system, or whatever it may be. In terms of architecture, design can be defined as the "blueprints." Design can be releveant to many subjects in many more ways than just one as mentioned previously; however, when I think of what constitutes as design I think more along the lines of architecture. In the picture above, you can see many levels of thought and design that was put into making the cathedral look as antique as it does. Every piece of the building serves as it's own piece of art. Even just taking a quick glance at the picture you can tell that the building was carefully planned out and every little detail was constructed very carefully. The Chicago Cathedral and everything that was just mentioned describes what exactly design is not only in an architectural sense but in life overall.