Philippe Starck: Design for Life

Again, I don’t like much about Philippe Starck, French man, or talent show but I watched the show.

The matter in every step was so funny and all about jump out of your origin world and think straight to a new tried and true one.

They also called the show Philippe Starck is evil, that is much too right. Unlike The Apprentice, which I saw a bit later, this show kicked off with the evil Philippe Starck on leather glove, shout and knocked on the TV(computer) screen saying in French way of HELLO before introduction. Well open your brain and it’s funny and true.

Though I never think his laced chair or gun lamp have some function more than art pieces the show do show other ‘useful’ thing in industrial design. Anyway, I love guns and there are guns in his new playful office, a list of guns.

Philippe Starck is the most French French man I have seen on BBC show which put me thinking that did English man really allow French man appear in their TV boxes? He was speaking French English, thinking French and the show took place in France. My lips went French but not British and my nose smell wine though there is in studio or supermarket.

Honestly, I can’t understand why a French man thinking about that and I feel rudeness when evil Philippe Starck doing something which those idiots even I agree with the judgements, but that shouldn’t be sent out like that. I also saw confused on the students face more than refused when they get some strong reflection.

Well, there is difference between cultures. I am Chinese myself and I have my own culture background. Those 12 geniuses are chosen because they like Philippe Starck or we can say, in some way, understand this well-known designer’s way of thinking. However, they still got freshly different idea in almost all things. But they still can do it by themselves. They can chose to comply with dear Starck and won the favoure, or just be themselves and surprise them. It is interesting that, which is a kind of experience of deal with future clients.

On the other hand, evil Philippe Starck is always destroying their ideas, and there are not always arguing about that. Perhaps Starck believes that without destruction there can be no construction, we could see better result came out after the cruel destruction. And that is still some Philippe Starck philosophy.

In addition, I feel happy I could look around a new studio of a famous designer.

Gary Hustwit: Objectified

The film is a mixture about design and products someway.

I think it’s a good film for people who do not have the back ground of design, or for who have already gave a touch to design.

Compared with Helvitica which also directed by Gary Hustwit, the director did not dig deep enough to show us a clear thing about how and why.

I cannot say something bad when I saw those designers who I don’t like appeared in the film but I felt confused about some designers speaking.

Anyway it is a happy film.

I felt happy to see so many workshop, studio, office and home of famous designers. Obviously, we need a background to present the style and characteristic of a designer. So in the picture there are many tiny little things that show the detail of the designer’s life. However, when I concerned about the chairs appeared in the film, I thought most of them are beautiful but I won’t buy them, even if I have enough money.

One reason is that, I don’t like the style, or it appeared too many times on the magazine so I got bored. But what about those things those are called classical or antique? People still like them that are why fashion always goes back to decades ago.

However, for i am a beginner in ID, i also learned something from the film.

There is no summarize or same view point in the film. As it is called 'Objectified'. We took around and heard a buntch of idea and finally just think about it, but not simply learn followed someone. Though it is said that simple is better or less is more, the film show as a more complex angle of view. The word is complex and the way you design, the philosophy is various.

I saw designers being themselves even though there are somebody i don't like. The film is about being, but not about how to designer for human being.