Topic: Philippe Starck

Supply Chic

Everyday tools with style.READ»

Design Fix of the Day

Just came across this cool site, by way of the cool-hunting site PSFK. It includes fun interviews with dozens of designers, revealing Karim Rashid's favorite flower (cacti), advice for young designers from Philippe Starck ("make a ...READ»

Designer Philippe Starck Embraces his Feminine Side [exclusive video]

Philippe Starck, resplendent in black leather pants, came to New York’s Soho House this week to promote his latest project –- a set of sleek stereo speakers he designed for Parrot, a French wireless technology company whose CEO, ...READ»

Has Philippe Starck Jumped the Shark With His Home Gym Office?

Philippe Starck is the poster-boy of design excess--witness this hotel in Beverly Hills--but his latest work stumbles into self-parody. The project, "Home Gym Office" is an attempt to integrate gym equipment into an office ...READ»

Datebook

Critical calendar listings for August 2005.READ»

Design Death, Democratization and the need for a Definition

Occassionally, a “design celebrity” says something that starts the Design Industry echo chamber buzzing. In April, mention of an interview that Philippe Starck gave popped up in several design blogs. Nussbaum On Design, Frog's ...READ»

Philippe Starck Emblazons LaCie's New Drives With Egregious Logo

The new design shouts, "Hey guys! I was designed by someone famous!!!"READ»

Philippe Starck's Anti-Fashion Cashmere Line Defies Trends, Consumerism

French designer Philippe Starck, better known for interior and product design, is getting into fashion, though Starck would rather not call it that. Working with Scottish cashmere company Ballantyne, the S+arck With Ballantyne line ...READ»

Office Surprise

Having just read Steve Barth's recent column about reorganizing your workspace, the new catalog from Topdeq could not have hit my in box at a worse time. Or more opportune. Dealing in "European design for the American office," the ...READ»

Datebook

Critical calendar listings for April 2006.READ»

Starck Raving

The design whirlwind behind everything from Richard Branson's space suits to a new global condo empire, Philippe Starck weighs in on the importance of fantasy, energy, and bivalves.READ»

Wishful Thinking

Getting and giving: fun tech toys for your holiday list, plus three worthy causes.READ»

New Furniture from Modern Masters

Next month, the design world will collapse upon Milan, for Salone Internazionale del Mobile, the world's biggest contemporary furniture fair. Luckily for design fans eager to taste some eye candy, previews of the best wares are ...READ»

Marcel Wanders Designs Miami's Mondrian

As his multipart empire expands into the U.S., Marcel Wanders's moment has come. He's riding it for all it's worth. READ»

• 2008 Masters of Design
• Marcel Wanders’s South Beach Mondrian
• The Vision of John Maeda

'Design for a Living World' Preview: 10 Products That Stay True to Their Origins

Can products nurture the people and place that produced them? Ten signature designers taking part in the Design for a Living World exhibition show how it might be done.READ»

ICFF Wrap-Up: The End of Luxe

With high-end furniture in eclipse, the furniture fair looks for a new esthetic of efficiency.READ»

A Camper for Even the Fussiest Design Dweeb

Why leave the comforts of home, if you can camp in your very own Sydney Opera House?READ»

Milan Report: Design's Most Valuable Player

Five reasons why Tom Dixon will triumph at this year’s furniture fair.READ»

From Overwrought to Overly Simple: Is Green Design Anti-Style?

Like everyone else, the design field braced for the fallout from the financial meltdown. At the time, some of us argued that good things could come from a period of constraint and reexamination. The consumer culture of design had ...READ»

Customers First Local Hero: Pinkberry

Pinkberry The Los Angeles Times called it the place that launched 1,000 parking tickets. Most Pinkberry customers consider that a small sacrifice for this tangy blend of frozen yogurt with fresh fruit topping and nothing ...READ»

Failure Is Glorious

Alberto Alessi transformed his family's ho-hum housewares business into a trendsetting design giant. His secret: walking the borderline between genius and failure.READ»

How to Find a Design Consiglieri

The toll of the bad economy is far greater than its direct economic impact. It affects virtually all elements of management, including the psyche of the personalities involved. Design, the less familiar and less established of ...READ»

Keeping it Cool

Mari Balestrazzi Vice President of Design Morgans Hotel Group Mari Balestrazzi, the former director of design at Aero Studios and St. Regis, now leads the design team at Morgans Hotel Group. "We're in growth mode, looking to ...READ»

• Designs on Success
• Homage to History
• A Club is Reborn

The Catalyst

How open-source design (and a big shot of fashion) saved Puma, and invented an industry.READ»

Making sense of Design Thinking: Three definitions, two problems and one big question.

 It won’t surprise anyone who read this blog that I am not an admirer of the Design Thinking phenomenon. I will call myself a skeptic observer. However I am not directly oppose to it. If you wonder how come, you should consider ...READ»