Designer 199264 225856427 2008-07-15T18:47:25Z Russavia 253448 [[WP:UNDO|Undid]] revision 225835191 by [[Special:Contributions/24.185.48.27|24.185.48.27]] ([[User talk:24.185.48.27|talk]]) A '''designer''' is a person who designs something. Perhaps the broadest definition is that provided by [[Herbert Simon]]: ‘Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.’ <ref>Simon, H. A. (1996). The Sciences of the Artificial (third ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (p. 111).</ref> As well as amateur designers, there are many professional designer occupations (see list of Examples). To become a professional designer usually requires study to degree level and certain work experience or training. Entry to some design professions is strictly controlled or limited by legal requirements, but use of the title ‘designer’ is generally un-regulated. Working as a designer usually implies being [[creative]] in a particular area of expertise. Designers are usually responsible for making [[drawings]] or models for something new that will be made by someone else. Their work takes into consideration not only how something will look, but also how it will be used and how it will be made. There can be great differences between the working styles and principles of designers in different professions. In the 1980s the term ‘designer’ began to be applied to products such as furniture and clothing that had distinctive aesthetics or were the work of certain ‘signature’ designers. So, for example, there were ‘designer chairs’ and ‘[[designer jeans]]’. The term later came to be applied to anything that was ostentatiously created for a purpose, such as ‘[[designer drug]]s’, or even the ‘designer [[stubble]]’ worn by some fashionable men. ==Examples== Examples of different types of designers include: [[architect]] or [[architectural designer]], [[automotive design]]er, [[costume designer]], [[engineering design]]er, [[fashion design]]er, [[game design]]er, [[graphic design]]er, [[industrial design]]er, [[interaction design]]er, [[interior design]]er, [[jewelry design]]er, [[landscape design]]er, [[lighting design]]er, [[scenic design]]er, [[systems design]]er, [[web design]]er. ==References== {{reflist}} ==See also== {{Wiktionary}} *[[Design engineer]] *[[Design firm]] *[[Design thinking]] *[[Visual arts]] [[Category:Architectural design]] [[Category:Design]] [[Category:Visual arts occupations]] [[Category:Design occupations| ]] [[bg:Дизайнер]] [[de:Designer]] [[et:Disainer]] [[es:Diseñador]] [[fr:Designer]] [[ko:디자이너]] [[it:Designer]] [[he:מעצב]] [[nl:Ontwerper]] [[ja:デザイナー]] [[pt:Designer]] [[zh:設計師]]