{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.design-artifact","code":"thing-design-artifact","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/design-artifact/","name":"design","alternateNames":["roundel","annulet","argyle","argyll","banner","streamer","battle flag","bear claw","bend","bend dexter","black flag","pirate flag"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Physical world and living systems","entryKind":"noun.artifact","plane":"PHY","domain":["PHY.OBJ"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":["artifact"],"facets":{"substance":"material","origin":"manufactured","agency":"inert","mobility":"portable","scale":"handheld","affordances":["graspable"]}},"whatItIs":"A design as a decorative or artistic work is a particular ornamental appearance - the combination of features of line, contour, colour, shape, texture, material or ornament - that constitutes or is applied to a physical article, or that 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complete functional specification of a product carrying decoration","The full building, landscape or site containing an installed work","Digital-only artworks and source files, except as related records","People, organisations and legal instruments as independently modelled entities"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["The referent is an embodied decorative or artistic work, rather than the activity that produced it.","Its arrangement of form, colour, texture or imagery is part of what identifies it; recording only its dimensions and material would lose that identity.","It is encountered as the work itself, rather than solely as instructions for making another thing; ambiguous drawings require an explicit role determination.","When attached to a useful object, its decorative or artistic extent can be described separately from the host's functional identity, even if physical separation is impossible.","A naturally occurring pattern does not qualify merely because it looks decorative; evidence of making, arranging or deliberate artistic selection must be recorded."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"work-identity-and-boundary","name":"Work identity and boundary","description":"Establishes what counts as the decorative or artistic work and where it begins and ends.","layers":[{"id":"registered-sense","name":"Registered sense","description":"Separates the embodied work from a design process, fabrication instruction or incidental appearance.","findings":[{"id":"decorative-artistic-status","name":"Decorative or artistic status","description":"Records the basis for treating this physical referent as a decorative or artistic work without substituting a judgement of quality.","questions":[{"text":"What evidence establishes that this referent is made, arranged or selected as a decorative or artistic work?","id":"decorative-artistic-status-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Is the referent the work itself, an instruction for producing another thing, or an item serving both roles?","id":"decorative-artistic-status-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"work-and-support","name":"Work and support","description":"Locates the work relative to substrates, host objects, frames and sites.","findings":[{"id":"expressive-extent","name":"Expressive extent","description":"Records which physical elements belong to the work and which merely support or surround it.","questions":[{"text":"Which surfaces, components or spatial arrangements constitute the work, and where are their boundaries?","id":"expressive-extent-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"Would separation from the host, frame or site remove a constituent part of the work or only change its support?","id":"expressive-extent-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"composition-and-expression","name":"Composition and expression","description":"Captures the perceptible organisation through which this work is recognised and interpreted.","layers":[{"id":"formal-organisation","name":"Formal 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uncertainty.","questions":[{"text":"What subjects, symbols or inscriptions are directly observable, and which identifications remain uncertain?","id":"supported-interpretations-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which statements about intended effect or meaning come from the maker, commissioner or other identifiable interpreters?","id":"supported-interpretations-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"embodiment-and-production","name":"Embodiment and production","description":"Relates physical execution to authorship, production history and other embodiments.","layers":[{"id":"material-execution","name":"Material execution","description":"Explains how substrate, media, fabrication and finishing produce the observed expression.","findings":[{"id":"expression-bearing-construction","name":"Expression-bearing construction","description":"Records the physical construction responsible for the work's visible or tactile features.","questions":[{"text":"Which materials, surface layers and making techniques produce the observed colours, relief, texture or transparency?","id":"expression-bearing-construction-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which construction details are documented or examined, and which are inferred solely from appearance?","id":"expression-bearing-construction-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"authorship-and-versions","name":"Authorship and versions","description":"Distinguishes conception, execution and subsequent production relationships.","findings":[{"id":"work-lineage","name":"Work lineage","description":"Records attributed contributors and whether this embodiment is unique, repeated, varied or reproduced.","questions":[{"text":"Who is credited with conception, execution and later alteration, and what evidence supports each attribution?","id":"work-lineage-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What establishes this embodiment's relationship to any original, edition, template, variant or reproduction?","id":"work-lineage-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"condition-and-expressive-integrity","name":"Condition and expressive integrity","description":"Assesses material changes through their effect on the work's composition and expression.","layers":[{"id":"appearance-and-material-change","name":"Appearance and material change","description":"Locates observed changes and distinguishes them from intended or original features where evidence permits.","findings":[{"id":"change-against-reference","name":"Change against reference","description":"Compares present appearance with an identified reference while avoiding unsupported assumptions about original condition.","questions":[{"text":"What dated image, examination or documented state provides a defensible reference for identifying change?","id":"change-against-reference-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Where and to what extent are fading, abrasion, loss, deformation or detachment observable?","id":"change-against-reference-q02","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Which apparent irregularities may be intentional texture, fabrication traces or valued ageing rather than damage?","id":"change-against-reference-q03","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"alteration-and-repair","name":"Alteration and repair","description":"Tracks interventions that modify the work's material or expressive character.","findings":[{"id":"intervention-consequences","name":"Intervention consequences","description":"Records repairs and additions and evaluates their relationship to surviving expression.","questions":[{"text":"Which areas have been repainted, refinished, reconstructed or replaced, and how is that history established?","id":"intervention-consequences-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Would a proposed intervention remove, obscure or reinterpret an identifying motif, surface or colour relationship?","id":"intervention-consequences-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"presentation-and-permitted-use","name":"Presentation and permitted use","description":"Connects how the work is encountered with evidence governing its display, reproduction and modification.","layers":[{"id":"encounter-conditions","name":"Encounter conditions","description":"Records conditions needed to present the work's composition and material effects appropriately.","findings":[{"id":"presentation-dependencies","name":"Presentation dependencies","description":"Identifies documented dependencies on viewpoint, orientation, illumination, spacing and setting.","questions":[{"text":"What evidence establishes intended orientation, viewing relationships, lighting effects or attachment to a particular setting?","id":"presentation-dependencies-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Can the proposed display or relocation preserve those dependencies and satisfy documented material constraints?","id":"presentation-dependencies-q02","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"reproduction-and-change-authority","name":"Reproduction and change authority","description":"Records the basis and limits of permission for actions affecting the work or its representation.","findings":[{"id":"action-specific-permissions","name":"Action-specific permissions","description":"Connects proposed actions to recorded authority, conditions and unresolved restrictions.","questions":[{"text":"What recorded permission or other established basis covers the proposed display, photography, reproduction or physical alteration?","id":"action-specific-permissions-q01","kind":"action"},{"text":"What applicable conditions govern cropping, recolouring, scaling, attribution or adaptation of the work's composition?","id":"action-specific-permissions-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-external-alignment","name":"Evidence and external alignment","description":"What the world already says about this 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its source before it becomes normative.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of design this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-neighbours-q01","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Describe, catalogue and credit designs with their creators and sources.","Search design registers for registered designs on a user's request."],"mustNot":["Copy or reproduce a protected design for sale without the rights holder's permission.","Remove or change attribution of a design to its creator.","Register or claim someone else's design as one's own.","Use traditional or sacred patterns of a community commercially without its consent."],"requiresHuman":["Filing a design registration or infringement claim."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Designers' livelihoods depend on credit and protection from copying.","Traditional patterns belong to communities that are often not asked before they are 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identifiers."},{"title":"Registered Designs Act 1949","url":"https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/88/contents","note":"United Kingdom statutory definition of a registrable design as the appearance of the whole or part of a product, and the national registration scheme."},{"title":"35 U.S.C. § 171 - Patents for designs","url":"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/171","note":"United States design-patent statute: a new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture."},{"title":"Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs","url":"https://www.wipo.int/classifications/locarno/en/","note":"International classification used to name kinds of industrial designs by product class."},{"title":"Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988","url":"https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/contents","note":"Unregistered design right in shape and configuration, and the boundary with copyright in artistic works and design 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