Web design, but is it art?

Who thinks web design is a form of art?

Although we're not using paint brushes and pallets I do feel that what we do, in photoshop or notepad is definitly something very creative.

Whilst it's easier to create good looking web sites than it is to paint a decent picture I do find a common link between the two. People who are naturally talented and have a passion for drawing, sketching, painting etc have a higher understanding of what it takes to create a great web design.

Just think about the enourmous amount of designers flogging their templates for $25 on forums, do you think they're actually talented on paper? Do you think they're doing this because they "love" it? They're doing it because they think it's easy and it will make them a quick buck.

The people who stand out are those who appreciate what they do is more than just for commercial purposes and it's for this reason I believe web design is something we can class as an art form.

What's your take on this?

I belive yes it is an art form. i dont think im the best at pencil to paper but i belive i have a good understanding of where an eye goes on a face

Design is an art form, but it's an art form with a common goal or a complexed purpose. It's art to achieve a reaction, or fulfill a plan or pattern of events.

That's my take on it anyway

I agree with your Robson. Web design is an art, as is architecturing a building. We build and create products the display our own style and express our artistic abilities. I agree with the quick buck as well. People who make templates for $25 think its a quick buck. What I do is take time to put down something I really can be proud of and something that expresses a little of me while I'm at it.

Web design as always been an art to me, you create something new pixel by pixel from a blank canvas until final result, using creativity and artistic sense. Those who maybe aren't "artists" are the ones as Robson mentionned selling their layouts for $10 trying to make a quick buck, who just don't innovate much when designing, always doing the samething.

Art is whatever you make of it, if a pile of bricks with sand on top of them is art then surely a web design must also be classed as another form of art?

design is art. And everything is design to someone and not to some other. Some webdesign I would not descripe as art. But really it is art I just don't like it

What you do in photoshop is an art. What you do in notepad is not an art.

Whilst it's easier to create good looking web sites than it is to paint a decent picture I do find a common link between the two.

Sorry to post twice in a row but I disagree with that statement. Give me a paint brush and I will paint you a picture. Give me photoshop, a mouse and a keyboard and I don't know where to begin.

The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.

That is one of the definitions given by dictionary.com for art.

The abilitie to arrange sounds, images to create beauty. I conclude therefore webdesign is an art