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Another Guy Who Thinks Design is Alive and Well

Posted by Chief Oddball on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 in Cars

What was I just saying the other day about design — about how there’s no way I can see it becoming a lost art, despite what the disillusioned Philippe Starck may think?
Today, my pro-design argument received more support in the form of Peter DeLorenzo’s latest rant at AutoExtremist.com. Peter talks about how, despite all [...]

Philippe Starck Says Design is Dead

Posted by Chief Oddball on Thursday, March 27th, 2008 in Headlines, Rants

“I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact,” Starck told Die Zeit weekly newspaper. Starck, who is known for his interior design of hotels and Eurostar trains and mass consumption objects ranging from chairs to tooth brushes and lemon juice squeezers, went on to say that he believed that [...]

I May Not Like Marketing, But I’m Not Half Bad

Posted by Chief Oddball on Friday, January 11th, 2008 in Life, Work

At work, we recently started doing some advertising in print magazines — a first for us. Our company is pretty small, so the director of marketing is really just our most outgoing salesperson. He came up with an idea for our print ad campaign that was definitely out of the box, and actually [...]