Philippe Starck: “design is dead”

It kind of bums me out to hear Philippe Starck proclaim the death of design, even if it is merely sour grapes from a master designer whose time seems to have passed. No wonder he seems so bitter: “But the thing one needs most, he added, was the ‘ability to love’.” Indeed. But maybe I just find this tidbit depressing because I wonder if he isn’t somehow right. Via Kottke.

Found: original (machine-translated) piece. Thanks Niall!