Oregon Public Broadcasting featured Product Design Program Assistant Professor Trygve Faste on Saturday’s OPB "State of Wonder" radio program. Faste spoke with host April Baer about the intersection of studio art and design. Faste’s comments on OPB previewed a speech he’ll deliver this week at the international Industrial Designers Society of America conference in Austin, Texas.

“Art and design share so much in common,” Faste told Baer. “That interest in various different types of craft art and different media go back to Bauhaus and the Arts and Crafts movements when the Industrial Revolution was taking place and people were realizing that there are a lot of interesting things we don’t want to lose when we transition from a craft-based economy to an industrial economy. Like the idea that if you are making something out of ceramics and you’re handpainting it … as soon as you switch to (mass production) there are certain trade offs in terms of quality.  …In education there was an idea that those kinds of things should continue to be taught.”

Hear all of Faste’s interview here (scroll forward to the 10-minute mark).