Philippe Starck Wants To Change Jobs!
The design is completely useless, laments in an interview Thursday in a German magazine, the French star of the genre, Philippe Starck, declaring its intention to change jobs within two years.
“All I have created is absolutely useless. On the structural point of view, design is totally unnecessary. A useful work is an astronomer, biologist or something like that. But the design, it is nothing, “said 59-year-old creator of the supplement” Leben “of the weekly” Die Zeit “.
“I tried to give my products a little sense and energy. But even when I gave the best of myself, it was absurd,” the designer, creator must since the 1980s, who designed many consumer products.
“I created so many things, not really interest me. Maybe all these years have they been necessary for me to finally realize that deep down we do not need anything. We still have too , “the creator”.
The man does not need “anything material,” only “capacity to love,” of “intelligence”, to “humor” and “ethics,” says Starck.
“I was a producer of materiality. I am ashamed. In the future, I want to be a producer of concepts. It will be useful.”
“In two years, I’ll stop for sure. I’ll do something else, I do not know what. It will be a new form of expression. A new weapon, faster, more violent and lighter than the design “.
via AFP