Research into Essay

Thought I'd start with a book!
Group of Internation Design Education 2007, THE NEW GENERATION: the design role in new generation world, Liberia Clup            
(not sure if this reference is correct, the information isn't in English and I'm very confused!!)
This book is written by many different people, I'll write who wrote what with the page number.

pg7- Arturo Dell' Acqua Bellavitis (Professor of Architerctural Technological culture Politecnico Milan)
"The role of design in society has expanded: in the field of design, we are in fact facing the multiplication of
sub-units, the growth of diversity in various areas (therefore specialization) and the shift to a world made of immaterial things and interfaces. Not only is product design sided by interior, communication and fashion design, creating more and more complex and specialized world, but a change is taking place within a discipline that operates over the world and over our way to relate to it."

Essay Brief

I really like this sound of this question:

Could it be argued that fine are ought to be assigned more 'value' than graphic design?

Value from the dictionary-

1. An amount, as of goods, services, or money, considered to be a fair and suitable equivalent for something else; a fair price or return.

2. Monetary or material worth: the fluctuating value of gold and silver.

3. Worth in usefulness or importance to the possessor; utility or merit: the value of an education.