Design for life - Philippe Starck
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Today on BBC2 Scotland from 11:20pm to 12:20am or 21:00 on BBC Two (England, Northern Ireland, Wales only):
"In an effort to find a new generation of British design talent, Philippe Starck, one of the world's best-known product designers, invites 12 hopefuls to a school of design he has set up in Paris. Their first challenge is to head to a local hypermarket and find examples of good and bad design. When they explain their thinking to Starck, he critiques them and selects the weakest five for a further nerve-wracking test."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/watc…
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For anyone who is interested...
- lowimpakt0
have you got the original link?
it's 13.22 now.
- calcium0
I wish I could watch this in America.
- freitag0
link fail
- Ranger0
Considering most of them were fresh out of design school they were pretty hopeless at understanding and thinking their way around that shopping task.
- lowimpakt0
tv by numbers
i felt like saying "we know the format phllipe, we know the format"
although, I would like to know what a non-design audience would make of it.
- Debut_and_Fin0
programs like this do an injustice to the word 'Design' i enjoy the heartache though when people realise they aren't all that 8)
- I have a friend who is a chef and he goes ballistic every time i mention top chefspendogg
- lowimpakt0
i'm not sure if it was an injustice.
i liked that the fact that he said they were doing everything but design.
too many graduates are churned out to belive that design, creativity and innovation (none of the same thing) is valued in pictures and objects. e.g. "how good my photoshops skills are", "how rad my rendering is", "i'm the fucking rhino on rhino"
hopefully he will let the public know that it is more than that.
- it was enlightening to hear the one bloke speak about the objects contextually and not on face value like the rest of themDebut_and_Fin
- MrT0
If someone used 'rad' in a CV, letter or interview I'd hit them with a fish. I always have one lying around.
- Ranger0
The guy who was speaking contextually about his objects wasn't really convincing me, felt more like he was the only one who got the whole exercise and the sort of thing that Starck wanted to hear. But what he actually said was pretty lame - the male and the female having love, integrity, honour... represented by the various plug sockets and joystick buttons...
Having said that, it's good that they havn't filled the programme with complete uber designers and that they have a bit of humility. That poor guy who bought a bike was asking for that response, he should've just stuck to his idea of taking a photo of it.
- digdre0
i saw it too,
pretty funny. with his french accent..but that guy there, amib or whats his name, pretty big self esteem, i saw the preview for next week, he said:
" I have absolutely no competetion, in this competition"
or something like that..
- digdre0
also funny, 'no i'm not buying the bike..'
the girl: ' buy the bike !!!'
*guy buys bike
- Ranger0
He couldn't resist having a little dig at British design. "Maybe we can come up with a British design style".
- lowimpakt0
I think his dig at british design is valid.
there are lots of good designers, millions spent on promoting design but alongside that there are too many design schools churning out graduate like there is no tomorrow BUT there isn't the right culture for the investment in design and there isn't the right level of self criticism.
The same issue about investment in design in the UK is experienced in architecture. British people with money are too risk averse so almost everything is bland.
- lowimpakt0
also - I was surprised so few of them seemed to research Phillipe and understand him before they went over.
I felt sorry for the guy with the bike - he seems genuinely nice but is devoid of confidence. It's as if he knew that the reason the bike was cheap is because it relies on exploitation and that wouldn't wash but he was bowled over by the kids.
- Ranger0
Most of them cited him as being the reason they became designers so they must've known what he promotes himself as. The girl who came back with condoms for male and tampons for female was cringey, I remember having to sit through so many presentations like that at uni wondering why the person was even there.
- tampons are falic how did she miss that one?
Debut_and_Fin
- tampons are falic how did she miss that one?