designer

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de·sign·er

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n.
One that produces designs: a book designer; a dress designer.

adj.

Bearing the name, signature, or identifying pattern of a specific designer: designer luggage; designer clothing.
Conceived or created by a designer.

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has been since the 1960s a vogue word first used in the fashion world to describe articles bearing the name of a famous designer and therefore prestigious and expensive. In this use designer is used attributively (before a noun), as in designer dress, jeans, shoes, etc. The word then spread into much wider use to signify anything regarded as fashionable or specially made, with all sorts of figurative applications:

He remembered thinking to himself; so it's finally happened—designer industrial action—David Lodge, 1988.

A designer drug is a synthetic compound made to simulate an existing illegal 'recreational' drug, designer stubble is the 'short, bristly growth on a man's unshaven face...purposely cultivated for a supposedly rugged and masculine appearance or to suggest a fashionably casual dishevelment' (Old English (up to 1150)D), and a designer baby is one whose genetic make-up has been artificially selected by genetic engineering combined with in vitro fertilization. All three combinations date from the 1980s.

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IN BRIEF: A person who creates or makes original plans.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. — Antoine de Sait-Exupery.

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Builders and Construction Workers - designer: one who conceives and draws plans for construction or decoration
Fashion, Trim, and Sewing - designer: (adj) created by or carrying label of specific fashion designer, but often mass-produced
Occupations and Job Titles
Cultural Movements, Events, and Institutions - designer: (adj) originally designed by and carrying label of fashion designer, now used to describe various products considered unique or superior

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Designer
Occupation
Description
Competencies	Technical knowledge, teamwork abilities, artistic skills (varies)

A designer is a person who designs. More formally, a designer is an agent that "specifies the structural properties of a design object".^[1] In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, such as consumer products, processes, laws, games and graphics, is referred to as a designer.

Designer cuckoo clock by Pascal Tarabay.

Classically, the main areas of design were only painting, sculpture and architecture, which were understood as the major arts. The design of clothing, furniture and other common artifacts were left mostly to tradition or artisans specializing in hand making them.

With the increasing complexity of today’s society, and due to the needs of mass production where more time is usually associated with more cost, the production methods became more complex and with them the way designs and their production is created. The classical areas are now subdivided in smaller and more specialized domains of design (landscape design, urban design, exterior design, interior design, industrial design, furniture design, cloth design, and many more) according to the product designed or perhaps its means of production.

The education, experience and genetic blocks that form the base of a competent designer is normally similar no matter the area of specialization, only in a later stages of training and work will designer diverge to a specialized field. The methods of teaching or the program and theories followed vary according to schools and field of study. Today, a design team, no matter the scale of the equipment, is usually composed by a master designer (the head of the team) that will have the responsibility to take decisions about the way the creative process should evolve, and a number of technical designers (the hands of the team) specialized in diverse areas according to the product proposed. For more complex products, the team will also be composed of professionals from other areas like engineers, advertising specialists, and others as required. The relationships established between team members will vary according proposed product, the processes of production, the equipment available, or the theories followed during the idea development, but normally they are not too restrictive, giving an opportunity to everyone in the team to take a part in the creation process or at least to express an idea.

Design professions

Different types of designers include:

Footnotes

^ Ralph, P. and Wand, Y. (2009). A proposal for a formal definition of the design concept. In Lyytinen, K., Loucopoulos, P., Mylopoulos, J., and Robinson, W., editors, Design Requirements Workshop (LNBIP 14), pp. 103–136. Springer-Verlag, p. 110

Communication design	Advertising · Book design · Corporate design · Exhibit design · Graphic design · Illustration · Information design · Instructional design · News design · Photography · Sustainable graphic design · Typography · Video design

Fashion design	Costume design

Industrial design	Automotive design · Furniture design · Packaging and labeling · Product design · Sensory design · Service design

Interaction design	Experience design · Game design · Information design · Motion graphic design · Sonic interaction design · User experience design · User interface design · Web design

Other design disciplines	Architecture · Ceramic and glass design · Interior design · Sound design · Sustainable design · Urban design

Approaches

C-K theory · Co-Design · Creative problem solving · Creativity techniques · Critical design · Design–build · Design for X · Design leadership · Design management · Design pattern · Design research · Design strategy · Design thinking · Engineering design process · Error-tolerant design · Fault-tolerant design · Functional design · Metadesign · Mind mapping · Open design · Participatory design · Reliability engineering · Theory of constraints · Transformation design · TRIZ · User innovation · Universal design

Awards

European Design Award · German Design Award · Good Design Award · IF product design award · James Dyson Award

Intellectual property

Community design · Design patent · Industrial design right · Industrial design rights in the European Union

Organizations

AIGA · Chartered Society of Designers · Design and Industries Association · The Design Society

Tools

Blueprint · Comprehensive layout · Computer-aided design · Flowchart · Mockup · Prototype · Sketch · Storyboard · Technical drawing · Website wireframe

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - designer, konstruktør
adj. - designer-

idioms:

designer drug designer drug, kunstigt lavet narkotika

Nederlands (Dutch)
ontwerper, vormgever

Français (French)
n. - (Art, Archit) dessinateur, créateur, (Comm, Ind) concepteur-projeteur, (Pub) créatif, designer, styliste, modéliste, grand couturier, (Cin, Théât) décorateur
adj. - haute couture, griffé, branché (fam)

idioms:

designer drug stupéfiant à formule modifiée

Deutsch (German)
n. - Designer, Konstrukteur, Modeschöpfer
adj. - Designer...

idioms:

designer drug synthetisches Rauschgift

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - σχεδιαστής, τεχνικός μελετητής, εκπονητής, σκηνογράφος, σχεδιαστής ή σχεδιάστρια ενδυμάτων (κν. μοντελίστ), (ως επίθ.) (ένδυμα μαζικής παραγωγής σχεδιασμένο από) φίρμα

idioms:

designer drug (φαρμακολ.) υποκατάστατο ναρκωτικού

Italiano (Italian)
progettista, sarto

idioms:

designer drug droga sintetica

Português (Portuguese)
n. - designer (m), projetista (m)

idioms:

designer drug droga (f) com estrutura alterada para evitar restrições legais

Русский (Russian)
дизайнер, разработчик, модельер

idioms:

designer drug наркотик с измененной формулой

Español (Spanish)
n. - diseñador, delineante, modisto
adj. - de diseñador

idioms:

designer drug droga de laboratorio, droga de diseño

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - designer, formgivare

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
设计者, 时装设计师, 构思者, 由设计师设计的

idioms:

designer drug 在制造时故意有小误差的药物

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 設計者, 時裝設計師, 構思者
adj. - 由設計師設計的

idioms:

designer drug 在製造時故意有小誤差的藥物

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 설계가, 모자
adj. - 유명 디자이너에 의한

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - デザイナー, 設計者

idioms:

designer drug 偽造薬

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) المصمم, شخص وظيفته تصميم الأشياء‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מעצב, מתכנן, משרטט, שרטט‬
adj. - ‮מעצב, מתכנן, משרטט‬

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