Every mass-produced object you own was drawn, argued over and refined by someone before a factory ever touched it. This is the art hiding in plain sight.

The art you look at more than any other is the one you almost never notice, and that is exactly how its makers want it. Graphic design is the art of arranging image, type and space so that they communicate.

Furniture design is where sculpture agrees to be sat on, the art of the objects we live with and on, and once you learn to read it, no room ever looks quite the same again. Furniture design is the art and discipline of shaping the objects we live with and on: the chairs that hold us, the tables we gather around, the beds we sleep in, the cabinets that keep our lives in order.

Forged, cast, raised and chased, metalwork is the art of persuading the most stubborn of materials into beauty. Metalwork is art made from metal, which sounds simple until you remember what metal is like.

Born of sand and fire, glass is the one material that lets an artist shape light itself. Here is what glass art is, where it came from and how you can try it yourself.

Among the oldest of all human arts, jewelry design turns metal, stone and even the humblest found object into meaning we can wear. Jewelry design is the art of creating objects of personal adornment, the rings, necklaces, bracelets, brooches and earrings that people have worn on their bodies for as long as there have been bodies to wear them.