Designers: Philippe Starck

Philippe Starck was born on January 18, 1949 in France. He is a product designer and a very well known designer in the ‘New Design style’.
His designs range from interior architectural designs to mass produced consumer goods such as toothbrushes, chairs, etc.

If you're not familiar with this man or you want to learn more, click here for Wikipedia, here for his website and here to shop for stuff he designed (very expensive though!).

He also launched his own TV show on BBC in 2009 - Design for life:

In an effort to find a new generation of British design talent, Philippe Starck, one of the world's best-known product designers, invites 12 hopefuls to a school of design he has set up in Paris. Over coming weeks, he will whittle them down until one fortunate student wins the opportunity of a lifetime - to work alongside the master for six months at his agency in the French capital.
Ranging from unemployed retail worker Jess to college lecturer Ilsa, the students meet Starck for the first time and discover what a larger-than-life character he is. And they face their first challenge - to head to a local hypermarket and find examples of good and bad design. When they explain their thinking to Starck, he critiques them and selects the weakest five for a further nerve-wracking test. When it's over, the group of 12 is now 10 and the school of design can begin in earnest.

via BBC.co.uk

If you haven't seen it - here is the first episode of Design for Life via Vimeo. Highly recommended.


Design for Life from design on Vimeo.

As you can see, you don't need to have perfect English to become world super star designer ( phew! )
:-)

Update:

I found all episodes on Vimeo! Whoo hoo!! :D


Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6

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