Philippe Starck says that design is dead and that he's retiring. Says Starck:
I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact. 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.
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# hippiepod said,
I'm sorry to comment here but I just have to vent about this pompous gas bag. Only a corn-fed spoiled brat could have the luxury of whimpering that his profession was no longer relevant but he didn't know what he wanted to do yet. And what's with the "I will definitely give up in two years time"? Why not today, cowboy? Guess that Thunderbird wine doesn't go down so well after being wined and dined by the hotel and transportation industry.
One last thing: never, ever listen to anyone who without a whiff of irony or sarcasm begins a sentence with "In the future,".
Idiot.