The phrase "acts of design" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to intentional actions or creations that involve planning and creativity, often in the context of art, architecture, or product development.
Example: "The museum's exhibit showcases various acts of design that have shaped modern architecture."
Alternatives: "design initiatives" or "design efforts".
The continuing debate over the changing definition of design has been constructive, not least by celebrating previously unsung acts of design ingenuity and by encouraging designers to diversify beyond their conventional roles, and to collaborate with different disciplines.
It is one of the first acts of design, setting out a ground of habitation with a line that has largely been naturalized in features such as the coastline, the riverbank, and the water's edge.
Beyond celebrating an historical event the building of the MIT Cambridge campus in 1916 this exhibition also provides a case study for the creative acts of designing, building and urban planning.
Stakeholders include building designers, operators, managers, engineers, occupants, industry, vendors, and policymakers, who directly or indirectly influence the acts of designing, constructing, living, operating, managing, and regulating the built environments, from individual building up to the urban scale.
The idea, of course, is that these designers will bring back excitement to a company whose greatest act of design daring was to popularize tailfins in the 1950s.
Ms. Antonelli describes that as "an act of design of extraordinary elegance and economy".
As an act of design, the picturesque used objects and techniques that would bring real material closer into line with the medium specificities of painting and drawing.
The act of design transforms a need into a product; it starts with a featureless abstraction and ends with a concrete reality.
The assemblage of language, sound or images is an act of design that echoes the sequence of proteins that form our tissue and brains, an unconscious mirroring of the body's basic structure.
