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Personally, I think designers can be classified as artists, but, artists cannot always be classified as designers.  I say this because, as mentioned by Kees Dorst, designers are typically used to create artistic ideas often given by a stakeholder, while artists are more dependent and tend to have more freedom when it comes to accomplishing whatever they set for themselves. Designers are artists because, through proper training, practice, and gained skills, they are able to make graphic masterpieces for others because the given stakeholder it probably incapable of efficiently completing it on their own. Artists, on the other hand, do not necessarily have to rely on others to tell them how and what to do their job, rather, they achieve their personal goals they set forth.

 Now as for myself, I consider myself more of a designer, rather than an artist. Although I do occasionally have some down time to put my drawing or design skills for my own use, I am often given orders from a higher being. Whether it be teachers, or my fellow peer editors at the Hilltop Views (the school newspaper where I am currently a first-year designer), I am usually given a required assignment or duty that I am expected to complete, as my own role as a designer. I don’t have a problem with considering myself as a designer because I know at the end of the day, I am learning more valuable skills that will allow me to help others complete their own desired, personal, and creative ideas.

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