Occupation: Designer Birth: January 18, 1949
I am my brain's publisher..
Working with Emeco has allowed me to use a recycled material and transform it into something that never needs to be discarded - a tireless and unbrea….
Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary..
Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning..
My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealism and magic [to design]..
We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept..
My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations..
Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer..
Future is about dematerialisation..
Design does not really interest me.
I like to open the doors to people's brain..
Getting to the heart of things, is never easy.
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….
The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is.
I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product..
Design is a dreadful form of expression.
Despite its simple and humble design, Zik is certainly today one of our most successful products in terms of intuitive ergonomics..
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….
I wanted the bike to be able to go over all kinds of terrains and especially infinite and poetic territories..
In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant..
You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you ar….