Philippe Starck says design is dead

Starck is saying that design is dead.

I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact.Everything I designed was unnecessary. I will definitely give up in two years’ time. I want to do something else, but I don’t know what yet. I want to find a new way of expressing myself …design is a dreadful form of expression…. In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant.”

Whatever. Typical narcissistic boomer sentiment. "I'm getting old and want to retire, so after I'm gone, design is over." I think Starck's view that design equals materiality is the problem with a lot of his design. You can design things so that they don't have to be Earth killers.