Mar 28, 2008
Philippe Starck: “design is dead”
It kind of bums me out to hear Philippe Starck proclaim the death of design, even if it is merely sour grapes from a master designer whose time seems to have passed. No wonder he seems so bitter: “But the thing one needs most, he added, was the ‘ability to love’.” Indeed. But maybe I just find this tidbit depressing because I wonder if he isn’t somehow right. Via Kottke.
Found: original (machine-translated) piece. Thanks Niall!
I'm an editor and technology critic in the midst of founding a new web startup: 
It seems there’s always some guy declaring something dead. Jean Luc Godard declared cinema was dead on more than one occasion. Usually what these guys mean is the art in the form that they came to love it in is dead. It is still alive just in a different shape. Perhaps one that is unrecognizable to them.
design of future will be without Starck if i dunnot change… but he will change soon, so he tease ….before new products-services…