“Good design is about clarity over style, and accountability over indifference.”—
John Maeda (via brianlucid)
(Perhaps the virtues of fine art lay in the reversing of these priorities.)
Notational’s suggestion makes sense only in the case that “design” is in opposition to “art”. Can the concepts of “art” and “design” exist on axes orthogonal to each other, rather than on opposite ends of a continuum? Are there not arts of clarity as well as of ambiguity that can both be “good”?