In this News Limited story, Philippe Starck says design is dead and his work ‘unnecessary’.
"I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact, … Everything I designed was unnecessary.”
All the egoistical self-indulgence aside, this statement does merit a certain level of self-reflection, whether you are a designer or a consumer.
- What does a designer really do anyway?
- How green or sustainable is the practice of design?
- What is “good” design? And from whose perspective?
- Is design still relevant to now and the future? How so? And how to make it so?
Thanks to Bede Tannock for this link.
