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- EricStralow
http://www.breitbart.com/article…
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Philippe Starck tells magazine design is dead
--------------------------------...Renowned French designer Philippe Starck says he is fed up with his job and plans to retire in two years, in an interview published in a German weekly on Thursday.
"I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact," Starck told Die Zeit weekly newspaper.
"Everything I designed was unnecessary.
"I will definitely give up in two years' time. I want to do something else, but I don't know what yet. I want to find a new way of expressing myself ...design is a dreadful form of expression."
Starck, who is known for his interior design of hotels and Eurostar trains and mass consumption objects ranging from chairs to tooth brushes and lemon juice squeezers, went on to say that he believed that design on the whole was dead.
"In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant," he said.
Starck said the only objects that he still felt attached to were "a pillow perhaps and a good mattress." But the thing one needs most, he added, was the "ability to love".
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Guess what, Phil...you're having the existential crisis of a 15 year old. Buck up and weld some more guns to shit. THX.
- Randd0
"design is a dreadful form of expression."
- Spookytim0
Expression is a dreadful way to design
- 2pence0
Why is this considered news worthy?
- drgs0
i agree
- TheBlueOne0
After reading that I am gearing myself up to design websites, logos and promotional materials for personal coaches, gym trainers and diet consultants.
- TheBlueOne0
dreadful design isn't expression, formally speaking.
- Daro0
Design is not even a form of expression
- harlequino0
"Buck up and weld some more guns to shit."
What does that mean? Sounds hurty.
- flavorful0
And people complain about my extensive use and varying lengths of "haha" ... ... ... wait for it ... awe.
- Meeklo0
who is this phillip guy? a co-worker?
I hope he finds something else.. I was talking to the delivery guy last night, he said he was fed up with pizzas, he can't wait to try something else.. (His name was Marc if any of you want to post it on the main page)
- al_la0
I kinda agree with Phil though...
I am also getting fed up with design (web, mobile itv etc).
I want to switch to an environmental career... something useful.
- EricStralow0
Hurty?
My point is that he takes himself + his job WAAAAAAAAY to seriously. He's neither the alpha nor the omega.
And design, at best, is a 5 second orgasm...a fleeting little hiccup of joy on the road to death. Enjoy it...stop crying...get over yourself...sorry your lady broke up with you...etc.
- Ooh don't mention the alpha or the omega. *shudderSpookyhome
- Meeklo0
al_la:
how about being able to design with an sustainable thinking?
with a bit of education you can stay in your career and do it right :)
- EricStralow0
Just because YOU'RE disillusioned with design doesn't mean it's 'dead'. It means you're bored. Which is fine. Move along and do something about it...and take your proclamations with you.
- Randd0
I am dead
- EricStralow0
I just FWD'd some Alkaline Trio to his Myspace.