What is "Design"?
What is "applied art"?
What theme is?

        DESIGN (from the English. Design concept, design, drawing, drawing), term denoting various types of the design activities aimed at the formation of aesthetic and functional qualities of the subject environment. In the narrow sense of design - art design.
    
       This formulation is concise definition of Design ....

Exactly, proektirovochnoy. (rather than spontaneous play with the material .. often unsuccessful, subjective perception. estessno)

You see, all the architects in essence - proektanty. Nevertheless, however ... Architecture is considered as a superstructure, the highest form of manifestation of creativity. I'm not talking about the fact that many famous architects engaged proetirovaniem furniture, dishes, vases. Modest names of Vera Mukhina, Mies van de Rohe, Alvar Aalto. Somewhere in the distance we can see the image of Michelangelo's ... It's modest proektanty.

About the highest form, agree completely!
 Architecture-the greatest and mightiest of all the arts! (IMHO)
Even if only because it operates with many different materials fiosofii and requires a multitude of deep and diverse expertise and team approach!
 Therefore, bowls modest proektantov and differ radically ...
 (this is like the top asberga over the water from it. that "just floating")

Designed in a modern society ... is vseobemlyueschee value ... subordinating and developing the technological side of the project and its functional component .... ideally obtained then ... when the object like in the aesthetic field and get pleasure from using them

So I just not find this in the above items, (glass) in the works proposed to discuss the artist

Shl: what is the difference between "design" and "epogeem kitsch"?
ZY.ZY: You can talk about trends, brand names, investment, but the objects (in overwhelming the most of) relevant to the design of a very remote ... sorry ... (IMHO)
12.12.2009 22:34

 with your permission I repeat ... ... Design as an expression of creative and constructive part of the implementation of objects ... comprehensive in modern society ... a major component for the success of the project komerchesekogo .... and kitsch is fashion ...

LCR Thanks for the topic, I think this is really relevant and interesting for both the investment as easy to expand the horizons theme. Now a new generation of Russian designers working at the intersection of art and science. I'll try, too, something to get support :) and foreign authors!

So, I think this glass kitsch (as Hestvuyu shark) is very questionable artistic level (Sorry, did not want to offend anyone)