What is DESIGN ?

  

You can have many answers to this question; but if we consider today, the answer will be probably "Design is something is created by someone for usability,comfort,better look and needs to be luxury,expensive,hard to reach,famous etc."

In past years, design sector is growing extremely fast.We can say that design is in its golden ages.Because people are searching design for everything they have.In my opinion, there was always design ,i don't know since when;but design doesn't have to be a brand,doesn't have to be famous or doesn't have to be expensive.There are cheap,reachable designs nowadays with the collabration between brands;but generally when you say design most of the people remember the word "expensive"

Imagine ! When all the brands were not existing or the people were not crazy about design clothes,furnitures or houses,they were still living in houses,they were still wearing clothes,they were still using bed,sofa,table,lamp,spoon,fork,plate or whatever.Someone was designing all the things that we use in our lives but people didnt pay that much attention as today.Everything we use in our lives is a design if we think in this way.

Why,design is so popular now? Why people are dying to have designer pieces in every area of their lives ?
Yes we can see Chanel in early 1900's,or  Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe designed "Barcelona Chair" in 1929 but what about 500 years ago ?

These questions may have too many answers and we cannot even find the correct one.For me there are some important keywords about this issue:Population,Technology,Competition,Dissatisfaction,Addiction,Deficiency.

Population is increasing so ideas do.We are seeing more designs,people are inventing new technologies and here appears the competition. They are making addiction because they are making our lives easier and we get used to live in that way.When we see we can reach something which we can not imagine to have them years ago so here comes dissatisfaction and deficiency;because we know,more and more will be invented.It looks like this will never end;but this is happening because of us,because we don't know how to settle for something,we always want a new one,more features,better look or a piece no one has.

Yes i am using technology,i am in interest to design due to my job and i am happy about all these facilities but in limits,we all need to have our limits or i am afraid people are becoming a robot !
If i need to answer in one sentence what design is,for me is everything we create to use ! Everyone can create something to use but this doesn't make them designers.

MC