Philippe Starck: Why design?

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35 points·ritonlajoie··12 comments

He's a designer, why doesn't he have any slides or other preparation for a TED talk? Does he put any effort into speaking English clearly? Why does he talk about that bogus lightning/primordial soup theory? Why is he attacking a straw man that we are the permanent pinnacle of evolution? Eight minutes in and he still hasn't said anything about design. I give up.

That talk is only about design! Do you know who Philippe Starck is?

No. Is it a pre-requisite that I know who he is in order to appreciate his TED talk? Because what I saw didn't stand very well on its own merit.

if you are going to complain about the things you do I would say yes it is a pre-requisite.

This is interesting, not in a way that's easy to understand. A few of his keypoints are:

- On Design: when designing something, think beyond (in fact, way beyond) the thing that you are designing.

- On Living: the smart way to live is to build stuff for many people (the more the merrier).

- On Civilization: do your best to fulfill your part.

Anyone have a transcript? I tried, I really did.

Here: http://blog.ted.com/2007/12/04/starck/

Phillipe Starck is such a wind bag celebrity designer. I don't believe this guy for a second just because he's pseudo philosophical. Congratulations on your horrible lemon squeezer.

That's the feeling I had before watching this video. Have you watched it already ? I'm pretty amazed by what he says even with my previous thoughts about him.

Can't stand his accent, and I'm french...

Same here.

Maybe because it's not so different from my own english accent. :]

I'm pretty sure Starck is a better marketer than designer. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

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