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Origin and History of a Word :: Design

Which word is more unspecified than “design”? You often hear, this person is a “designer”, this thing is well designed, “do you like design furnitures?”… But what is the true meaning of “design” in French? And how can we distinguish between “design” and art? Where is the difference?

What about the etymology of “design”? “Design” is an Anglo-Saxon word whose etymology comes from the French words “dessein” (which means project, intention) and “dessin” (which means drawing, picture). These two identical words took on different meanings beginning in the XVIII. Century, as the act of drawing would have been separated from the project.

The meaning of “design” varies with the period and the culture. So there is no one definition.