Art vs. Design

Most people don't realize that there is a difference between art and design. In Potter's article, he finds it questionable that different areas like painting, sculpture, industrial design, and architecture all "derive in some sense from the common fountainhead of 'art'". Many end up categorizing design as just another form of art. However, I feel that design has many differences from art that lend itself to becoming another category just by itself. Potter says that designers "work through and for other people and [are] concerned primarily with [others'] problems rather than his own". But fine artists on the other hand create work that has "a more inward character in its origins". I feel that this is the key difference between art and design - that design serves a practical purpose and art serves a purpose on a more spiritual and emotional level. I can see a cleverly designed ad in a magazine and feel that it is a good design and perhaps even artistic, but it is less accurate to call a painting by a fine artist a good design. Neither is better or worse than the other - they just serve different purposes for society and the world.