Makeup collectors, get ready: Next month the Pierre Hardy for Nars collection is hitting counters and it’s sure to inspire a need-it-all hoarding frenzy. Inspired by Pierre Hardy’s shoes for summer 2013, the 14-piece makeup collection includes six nail polish duo sets and two brightly-coloured blushes. And as if you needed further incentive to purchase, the nail polishes come packaged in adorable, miniature dust bags and Pierre Hardy shoeboxes. The blushes, on the other hand, make use of Hardy’s signature cube print. “Rotonde” is a tiger lilly-orange blush while “Boys Don’t Cry” is a poppy pink grapefruit shade—and both are accented with a shimmering gold overlay of the geometric design.
The Pierre Hardy for Nars nail polishes also make use of shimmering and opaque contrasts. The “Easy Walking” duo includes two camel-coloured nail polishes, one a rich creme shade and the other a metallic. Other pairs are more about bold, contrasting colours, such as the orange and navy “Ethno Run” and the yellow and lavender “Sharks” set. And, for extra collect-them-all encouragement, one set will be exclusively sold online: “Venomous,” which is a gunmetal-silver and black duo. The Pierre Hardy for Nars nail polish pairs are also well suited to no-brainer nail art—most sets would do well when applied as a playful French manicure or crescent moonmanicure. The Pierre Hardy for Nars collection will be available in-store and online as of May 1, 2013. Nail polish pairs will retail for $32 and the blush palettes are $48 each.
The boundaries between art and design are blurred, largely due to a range of applications both for the term 'art' and the term 'design'. Applied arts has been used as an umbrella term to define fields of industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, etc. The term 'decorative arts' is a traditional term used in historical discourses to describe craft objects, and also sits within the umbrella of Applied arts. In graphic arts (2D image making that ranges from photography to illustration) the distinction is often made between fine art and commercial art, based on the context within which the work is produced and how it is traded.
This is not to say that production never involves problem-solving or creativity, nor that design always involves creativity. Designs are rarely perfect and are sometimes repetitive. The imperfection of a design may task a production position (e.g. production artist, construction worker) with utilizing creativity or problem-solving skills to compensate for what was overlooked in the design process. Likewise, a design may be a simple repetition (copy) of a known preexisting solution, requiring minimal, if any, creativity or problem-solving skills from the designer.
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