"Starck's reality TV design show doesn't quite hit it off" says Lynda Relph-Knight (DW Editor)

The Design Week editor Lynda Relph-Knight has commented on the BBC's take up of design-reality-knockout-comp...
I think it follows on from my post last week rather well.

Tyler Brûlé interviews Lego CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp

Glopear - Image retouching...

Design For Life BBC2 (AKA The Design Apprentice)

Stephen Bayley has noted Phillipe Stark's new BBC show as a garlic smelling version of Sir Alan's 'The Apprentice'... a little harsh perhaps and very Anglo of him (well done Stephen, keep up the good work with the stereotyping), I'm reserving judgement.

It's just a shame he is a Parisian, after all it is the BBC what's wrong with Dixon, Morrison, Arad, Lovegrove. This is the same as Gordon Brown's wonderful idea of offering a post to Carla Bruni as style advisor to the UK government last year. What the hell is it with us Brits asking the French?

This program will highlight the design process with elements vital to design and that has to be a bonus in creating a more design-literate populace, however when will British designers opinions hold stronger value with British organisations and governance?

London Design Festival has just opened, anyone going to Paris?

The program is at 9pm BBC2 (every Monday) or watch it on iPlayer

The poster for the previously posted Norwegian Prototypes!

Its going to be great... even the poster is steaming in typographic fashion!

Revolution in the Living Room: Conversation With a Furniture Designer

Larosa, a native of Milan, is chair of the SCAD furniture department and the kind of designer who makes you want to join the revolution. "American furniture design has been hibernating for fifty years," he said to me earlier this week. "I want to wake it up!"

BY PAULA WALLACEThu Sep 3, 2009

Product Design @ UCA Rochester

Undoubtedly continuing Will Smith's research into cold rotational molding,

students at my old design school have created a very impressive production machine!

Alice Rawsthorn’s piece in the NYT illustrates a very sad point that unfortunately I haft to say I agree with… British design: not what it used to be.

Perhaps an over used expression in the UK “not what it used to be” but when looking at the evidence it is all there.

The British skills and talents are as vibrant as ever, smashing boldly and defiantly into the stylized lives of the world’s populace.

However where is the ‘state design’ the institutional security of over engineered big red objects that can withstand a blitzkrieg, 320 days of drizzle and generations of use?

I think the reason is quite simple… little in the twenty first century is designed to last beyond the 'trend' its created in!

Celebrities are crowned with ‘best before dates’, governments are consumed with popular policy making for the next term, not the next generation and the masses are consumed with fast trend McPrimark living.

Jonathan Glancey in the Guardian continues in this vein following up Rawsthorn’s article.

As we are entering times of ecological, economical and social trepidation we require confident design not just consumed with time bombed fashion trends but designing to stand the test of time.

Investment in the future with the world beating talents of British Designers… it’s worked before!

The Guardian Newspaper's 10:10 campaign to cut emissions.

"The world's response to global warming is a classic case of all mouth and no trousers. This new initiative aims to show that we can all act now - and achieve something significant."