Artists design everyday items and galleries sell furniture and the lines between art and design become increasingly blurry. Meanwhile,some design is being handled as art,and is priced accordingly. In Dusseldorf,the exhibition U.F.O
Design is just a method / discipline of producing Art. Just as Water color painting and oil painting are methods / disciplines of producing Art. They dont always produce art but sometimes it does. Art is a end product of doing a discipline well. I would argue that Design is the synthesis between Form and Content and that Art is an idea that has found its perfect form and that Art is produced only when these two concepts of Content and Form are in unity.
Art principle is "critical message". Now, it stops in one moment when we face in museum or movie. The next step must be items designed for reminding messages in daily life every time they use, I think.