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"Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.”
— John Maeda
John Maeda really nailed it with this one. That distinction reframes how you approach a brief completely. Designers go in looking to resolve things while artists go in looking to uncover things. Saves a lot of confusion when both sides understand which mode they are actually working in.
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