http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/ Engadget Comments for The Engadget Show: Inside the mind of designer Philippe Starck http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/Nov 13th 2009 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/
haha but really, I downloading now waiting to enjoy some goodness that is the engadget show.]]>Nov 13th 2009 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/Nov 13th 2009 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/Nov 13th 2009 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/Nov 13th 2009 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/You designed my shower faucet. Form over function is rarely a good thing when it comes to the first thing you use in the morning ;)]]>Nov 13th 2009 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/Nov 13th 2009 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/Nov 13th 2009 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/I hope Stark is not actually as arrogant as he sounds in the interview.]]>Nov 13th 2009 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/Nov 13th 2009 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/Nov 13th 2009 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/
These designers can be so deep sometimes.]]>Nov 14th 2009 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/Nov 13th 2009 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/- Macbook Pro (unibody) design stolen by the Dell Adamo and hp envy
- iPhone design influenced almost every phone made after it was released
- All in one iMac, idea incorporated into other manufacturers computers
- iPods, small form factor and design influenced many other products

BUT they design isn't everything, and some Apple products are sacrificing important features for design]]>Nov 13th 2009 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/Nov 13th 2009 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/Nov 13th 2009 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/Nov 13th 2009 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/]]>Nov 13th 2009 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/]]>Nov 13th 2009 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/Nov 13th 2009 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/
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Way to frame the interview around Apple. Every other question was like "How much do you actually love Apple?" - He's a designer, of course he'll love Apple, ask him something else.]]>Nov 13th 2009 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/He's probably the most famous industrial designer out there...
His word means a lot and he's dead on , on everything he says about Apple.]]>Nov 14th 2009 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/
famous Designers are just human and their rationale and decisions can be utterly wrong as often as less known designers. There is no authority. The creative world is like distributed computing. There's no single machine that informs and updates all. And any designer or artist who tells you otherwise is nothing more than sheep, no matter how successful they are. Design skills play only a very small part in how successful a creative person becomes. Most of that is hard work and sharp business acumen. The actual talent is much less important. Sounds like everything else in life right?

I personally do not believe that designers should be a fanboi of anybody. They need to remain objective and critical. Once you've become a fanboi, those very important and essential qualities that make a designer/artist is lost and/or incomplete.

... "Mechnical parts will break" is not objective for a designer and I am surprised someone with that much experience can use that as a justification against. As designers, our job are to make sure that what we propose will work. If we propose a hinge, it must work. If it doesn't work as intended then it's bad design. In N97's case, it's been designed wonderfully and of the 10 million in use, I certainly havn't heard of the hinge being even on the list of problems; in fact, the hinge was reviewed as a general plus on the device.

As a person you can still admire specific items or person(s) but professionally we have to leave that at the door. Designers, especially, tend to not know the difference. Have a chat with your designer and Agency friends if you know some. Listen carefully to what they say. Even being in the industry you will notice that they can't differentiate truth from spin (even when they create spin), hype from reality and are just as easy to be manipulated by someone elses' ads/marketing when they should clearly know the difference.

Then there's the fanboi love of apple that completely destroys their credibility. I have peers who justfy to me why the carbonate body used in my iMac is warping out at the base of the screen (enough so that I can clip 4 pens on it and slip in a stack of papers) as acceptable. Nothing more than sheep. Solely being beautiful does not make a good design; particularly so in industrial design.

We have to be critical of everything. That's what makes us designers. When we lose that ability to be critical then we aren't designers. We're just people who know how to use the tools. Sort of like how programmers spin themselves off as web DESIGNERS because they can write code and put up a page. Some have made the legitimate leap to become one while most are still just developers. Most people won't know the difference or care much; but within our own industry and for our own personal growth, it's important to know.

]]>Nov 14th 2009 3:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/And in the broader sense, can you be 'objective' in an artistic field? Isn't that mutually exclusive?
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moderniTY (yeah gimme morrre). ]]>Nov 15th 2009 3:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/Nov 14th 2009 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/Nov 14th 2009 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/Nov 15th 2009 3:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/Nov 15th 2009 3:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/the-engadget-show-inside-the-mind-of-designer-philippe-starck/Nov 16th 2009 12:05AM