Design for life

Design for life

As Philippe Starck has proven to be a renown designer throughout his professional time and at Design for Life he presents himself as such. The presentation of a reality show centered on product design and him as the chief commander of such project comes across as a view into a devoted designer’s world.
The ethics and ideology from Starck are deep philosophical roots that mean design for a communities; developments that will produce a civilizations benefit. With a witty personality Starck’s design becomes fun, relaxed on the exterior but definitely strong headed in the interior with confidence and obsession for design.
A deep respect came towards his ideology of repulsion towards marketing design. I agree that some designers nowadays produce stupidity only to feed a ever growing consumerist market with useless products. This I believe strongly that is a mistake and I admire the ones who can stand against it and address it equally.
Studying Stark I realize he is not the kind of great designer that designs for other designers, he is not the bad mass useless product designer and he is left to be in the box of community designer. He is a person who aims to develop the thinking in people, he wants the profit of the human being, he is a designer who categorizes himself as the one who is after the function, emotion, what will this product will for good change.

Viewing his talk on TED, his evolution theory is quite a thought, his view of our evolving thinking that has been a long and lasting process to become something better. Poetry told is what we live in and he sees the future as a story to be told where we should see the the world needs, the ways that we have learned to make this a better place. No need to be a genius to become better but there is a need to participate in this evolution. Green, smarter, better, and with vision.