It’s rather quite the opposite. Most of the “worlds people” only have access to craftwork. In France (Starck’s country), the “Board of Craftmanship” (Chambre de Métiers et de l’Artisanat) is kind of France’s first corporation. In developing or underdeveloped countries, as you say, people don’t have access to mass market, but they still have furniture and kitchenware! Those are craftwork. Wood or ceramic figurine, ponchos, kitchenware made of bamboo… I could go on for ever.

If the ongoing interest of stuff like Etsy, Ponoko or the MakerBot keep rising as they currently do, the designing process and the way people see creation could shift to a new paradigm.

if you can’t generate good ideas anymore mr.starck that’s where you’re dead, weather it be luxury design or design for the 90% or the 10%, it is still fully alive and ppl are running their lives with it. design never dies, design changes form and evolves , maybe our material world will come to a halt but design transfers itself into digital, yes, i believes multimedia is actually the future of industrial design, plus, there are zillions of spots where design has not touched yet, one of them being ROBOTICS.

it’s good to hear you’re getting retired mr.starck because there are plenty young talented people out there ready to take your place as soon as you’re out of your kingdom chair.

saying these words won’t grab you any attention, you only loose respect among designers.

I mean, I see your point, sort of, but it’s not black and white, ‘vital’ and ‘useless’. Quality of life is worth increasing and good design does this.

I think the core of what Starck is doing is just putting himself and his ego above everyone else, it’s worked for him in the past.

Design is something else, far beyhond what he knows, and is able to do.

Shut up, Mr. Stark.