Product Design

Book Information

• Released: 2013-09
• Pages: 26
• Language: en
• ISBN-10:1230627782
• ISBN-13:9781230627786

Description

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Ammunition Design Group, Andrea Fogli, Apple Inc. design motifs, Beta Tank, Creo (design software), Customer toolkit, Damaged good, DCA Design International Ltd, Design history, Filipe Alarcao, Happily Unmarried, Herbst LaZar Bell, Inc., Jaroslav Je ek (designer), Lunar Design, Nottingham Spirk, Partners & Spade, Peter Opsvik, Philippe Starck, Process Qualification, Production drawing, Rodney Fitch, Rolf Fehlbaum, Rubbot, Sara Little Turnbull, Skeuomorph, Studio Job, The Handle. Excerpt: Philippe Patrick Starck (born January 18, 1949, Paris) is a French product designer. His designs range from interior designs to mass-produced consumer goods such as toothbrushes, chairs, and even houses. He was educated in Paris at the Ecole Camondo and in 1968, he founded his first design firm, which specialized in inflatable objects. In 1969, he became art director of his firm along with Pierre Cardin. Telefunken alarm clock, ca. 1995Starck's career started to climb in earnest in 1982 when he designed the interior for the private apartments of the French President Francois Mitterrand. In 1986 he joined Domus Academy Department of Design as an associate lecturer. Starck has worked both independently as an interior designer and as a product designer since 1975. In 2002, he created a number of what are considered relatively inexpensive product designs for the large American retailer Target Stores. His most recent notable designs include an optical mouse for Microsoft, several yachts including the $300 million A, and even new packaging for a beer company. He was commissioned to design the Virgin Galactic "spaceport" in New Mexico (Foster and Partners are its architects). He made the exhibit Democratic Ecology with Pramac. In autumn 2009 Starck appeared in a BBC Two programme Design for Life in which 12 aspiring design students... (Source: Google Books API)