Philippe Starck: “Design is Dead” - Yanko Design

Information technology seems Philippe Starck has made enough toothbrushes, toasters, watches, mopeds, chairs, trendy hotels, mediocre sushi restaurants and piles of money. So what is this shamelessly self promoting production designer doing now to get attention? Biting the hand that feeds him of form. In a recent interview with Frg'southward Die Zeit Magazine, Mr. Starck proclaims the "decease of design." No longer satisfied with his life's work and feeling that everything he ever designed was " unnecessary", the shut to retiring designer wants to rain on everyone else'south design parade and create nothing but controversy. While I do agree with him that all he "created is absolutely useless", I do have to argue his point that "pattern is dead." There are countless designers (amateur and professional) delivering and working on products that raise life, bring joy and make this world a lilliputian easier to bargain with for people in all walks of life. Yes, there are many more designers working on more often than not frivolous items nosotros characteristic daily on Yanko Pattern, simply those designs seem to just inspire u.s.a. and push design farther and into the mainstream consciousness of the earth. Skilful design is always better than bad design, no matter the usefulness of any object. In his defense, if I spent an entire lifetime making objects of frivolity, I might be inclined to exist introspective besides. Donate your money to worthy charities, help the helpless or lecture on the importance of environmentally sustainable, life enhancing objects, merely don't claim design to be dead and expect to exonerate yourself from the life you designed for yourself. Design is no where near dead, it just may be dead in Mr. Starck.

UPDATE: Some of the quotes used in the German language Weekly.

"I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact,"

"Everything I designed was unnecessary."

"I will definitely give up in ii years' time. I want to do something else, but I don't know what yet. I desire to discover a new style of expressing myself …design is a dreadful form of expression."

"In future there volition exist no more designers. The designers of the hereafter volition be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant,"

Starck said the merely objects that he however felt attached to were "a pillow perhaps and a good mattress." Only the thing one needs about, he added, was the "ability to beloved".

Designer: Philippe Starck [ Via: Gawker ]