“God is a trap”

3. “God is a trap” "I am inspired by the big story of our evolution. I do not do projects that don't fit in this big vision, meaning a project has to deserve to exist. One way to deserve to exist is to serve." In one of starck’s talks, he mentions that we as designers should have a good view of the world. Not to look down at hour feet as we walk along, he sais it is dangerous because if we just look at our feet we wont see the obstacles ahead, he also said that walking through the world that way as a designer is selfish. The higher the angle of view we have of the world the more we see in society, we can see people, problems and obstacles and more ideas in the world. We are more intelligent if we have this high angle of view He said geniuses looked up higher than most people because their brain was capable of doing so. But if you look to high .. Pretty much strait up, you find god. This is dangerous route for a designer, inventor or artist because if we look to high then god is the answer when we don’t know the answer our self’s, when your brain isn't big enough or when you don’t understand that’s when you look to god, he said not one designer should look this high as they must try and help society in there own vision of the world. http://www.artitonic.com/starck_quotations.html

4. How Starck works … • If someone approaches him about a design for what he is known for the lemon squeezer, beautiful toilet seats, toilet brush and tooth brushes. He does not try to design the ‘toothbrush’ he has no interest in doing that kind of design, he calls himself a narcissistic designer in which a fantastic designer who designs for other fantastic designers, he believes in not making an object to be the object but to make the object the result, for profit of the human being, well the person who will use it. • He doesn’t design things which are meant to look good just so that object could be sold a lot in shops, he thinks more about how they perform no matter what they may look like. Many of his designs are results of this way of designing.