Philippe Starck: Ashamed, Retiring, and Saying Design is Dead?

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed)
Mar 29th 2008 at 8:02AM

Sometimes even dream jobs get old, and it seems Philippe Starck is tired of being a famous designer, feels that design is dead anyway, and plans to retire within the next two years. He also feels that the designers of the future will be "the personal coach, the gym trainer, and the diet consultant," and that everything he designed in his career was "unnecessary" and he's ashamed to have been part of it.

Wow.

Sounds like he's having a bit of a midlife crisis or something! It will be interesting to see what he ends up doing in the future -- with a creative mind like his it could be something really interesting.

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artur83 Mar 29th 2008 11:38AM

Finaly!
Wow, i thought he would never see an error of his ways.
He was not a successful designer.
He is more of a profiteering artist.

to Design is to solve problems. What he described his role as a designer was, is actualy not a designers role at all - rather a consideration every designer must have, but in no way is it a role.

It's time that artists stick to art, it's less enviromentaly disasterous.

rndmnme Mar 31st 2008 4:44PM

Oh someone tell him to shut up. Nobody cares.

The world still turns, people will still design things, and Starck will still forget that he is, and always will be insignificant.

sanjith May 12th 2008 10:11AM

Philip Starcks, comments when it comes to design are always weird. I remember reading an interview in Designboom.com sometime before.
I don't thing this need to be taken so seriously. My feeling is that he is going to be in design in one form or another.