Occupation: Designer Birth: January 18, 1949
Future is about dematerialisation..
My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealism and magic [to design]..
Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer..
Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning..
I have this mental sickness called creativity..
No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate..
In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poe….
My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations..
I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product..
Design does not really interest me.
Dreaming is a form of action. Idleness is a form of action. The idle man stares at the sky and sees what constitutes our eternal ceiling. The sky is ….
Anyone can build a building that protects people from heat, sun and cold. What I am determined to do is to make a stage where people can be sexier an….
I try to rediscover why that object exists at all, and why one should take the trouble to reconsider It. I don't consider the technical or commercial….
The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The word 'beaut….
Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary..
We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept..
I like to open the doors to people's brain..
Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence..
Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production..
I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist..
The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is.