最近香港英文台每周五播出一套叫做“DESIGN FOR LIFE"中文译为名师出高徒的节目，吸引了我的注意。在设计，创造力方面，我可以说是个毫无这方面天分的人。因为小时候的教育就没有偏向这方面的发展。所以大多数国人在创造力方面都是比较其他方面而逊色的。我只想把这节目作为娱乐自我，同时是孩子们值得看的节目，如果他们都喜欢发展他们想象和创造的能力的话。弟弟还小，对这些真人秀的节目兴趣还是不大，自个儿玩去了。NAOMI对这方面还是很感兴趣的。所以现在每个周五晚上八点半都会和我一起收看。可惜爸爸这个时候不在，不然可以给孩子更加适当的引导。那就更加完美了。

这个PHILIPPE STARCK 究竟是何人呢？

菲利普·斯达克英文名字（Philippe Starck)是当今最具个性的设计师，也是才华横溢的成功的多面手，他以其具有超前的时尚意识的设计而在２０世纪８０年代的设计界中占据这超级明星的位置．斯达克所涉及的设计范围包括建筑、家具、室内设计、摩托车、榨汁机、过滤器甚至们把手、花瓶等细微的家居产品；成功的经典之作包括1982年设计的三腿coates椅子、1988年为纽约的royalton饭店所做的优雅而华丽的室内设计、1990-1991年推出的juicy salit柠檬榨汁机——折款设计的创意极为新颖，有机的造型看起来富有艺术美感，而1995年为aprilia设计的moto6,5摩托车则在诱人的野性之美中融入浪漫、优雅的格调。今天，斯达克的设计思路从以前的时尚趋向于恒久的经典，认为客观性和朴实的风格是产品设计中不可或缺的整体。

Philippe Starck,这个于1946年在巴黎出生的世界顶级设计师，得感激他身为飞行器设计师的父亲，童年的记忆，多半是有关父亲的工作室的，他如此乐于创造，在父亲的工作室中缝缝补补、切割、粘合，用砂纸打磨、分解各种各样的物品。

这个喜好，伴其一生，他延续着儿时的热情，改造着触手能及的一切。

Philippe Starck，1968年成立了自己的第一家公司以后，又于1979年成立了以自己名字命名的公司。

1982年，法国总统Mitterand（密特朗）要求他设计在Elysées Palace（香榭利舍）的私人住宅，这使他名声大噪。随后，他又将Café Cstes改变成了Le Café，将纽约的Royalton Paramount改变成了新的世界酒店中的经典之作，并在日本造就了许多建筑力作。

香港半岛酒店的装修，所表现出的对传统精神的冲击力，很容易让人记住他独一无二的气质。而墨西哥的Teatron，迈阿密的Delano酒店；洛杉矶的Mondrian；纽约的 Asia de Cuba酒店，每一个设计都是充满了魅力，欢乐与冲突的场所。

他的能量不仅仅只局限于此，他的奇思妙想延伸到各个领域，从家具到鼠标,从罗西尼手表到轮椅，在设计Béneteau时，他抓住了海洋最精华的精神；他将牙刷变成一种高贵的物品；用一种"错误"的方法榨柠檬；他把他的"情感风格"融入到Thomson的电子世界时，使得我们的电视机都充满了情趣。他甚至花时间去改变我们吃的通心粉、烟灰缸、灯具、牙刷、门把手、刀具、烛台、水壶、花瓶、钟、踏板车、摩托车、书桌、床、水龙头、浴缸、抽水马桶，总之，改变我们的生活。

"鬼才"，诙谐的绰号，整个世界玩转在他手里。

生活的本性和质朴的细节，被他一一信手拈来，灵感在生活的每个细微部分都留下痕迹。他的天赋异秉，以及这些所带来的成就，成为所有一流的表现主义建筑师的楷模。

今天，这个被世界誉为鬼才的设计师即将在有洪达仁国际设计管理集团引进的"Imade，意大利顶级制造"巡展上向中国观众展示了他的得意之作，为Kartell公司设计的Bubble Club椅。它首次诠释了家具的一个新概念：工业化的长椅，整件产品由大块的聚乙烯材料制成。宽大的两人座长椅，扶手柔和的线条与和椅背硬朗而理性的线条形成强烈的对比，刚毅与柔美的对话，酿造出的工业中的妩媚。同一系列的产品还有一把扶手椅和小茶几。绚烂的色彩让整个房间都会为之着迷。

Starck的伟大就在这里，用最普通的线条勾勒出最让人惊叹的形状。

而这个名师出高徒的真人秀就是有这个设计师在12个学生中挑选一个，在最后，可以在他的公司实习。这对于所有学设计的学生来说，都是毕生梦寐以求的机会呢。

Shaking up the world of design

Product design is all around us – from the bed we wake up in and the toothbrush we use, right through to the TV we watch and the car we drive. But many people spend their days completely oblivious to the thousands of ways it affects them. Now the enfant terrible of product design, Philippe Starck, is determined to shake up the world of British design.

Claiming there has not been a design revolution here since Terence Conran burst onto the scene in the Sixties, Starck invited open applications for places on a school of design he is setting up in Paris. Hundreds of British would-be designers applied. Starck then whittled them down to the best 12, based on the quality of the drawings they submitted with their applications, and invited them to join him in the French capital.

Design For Life follows the fortunes of the 12 students – seven men and five women – who must battle it out to impress Starck. Ably assisted by top designer Eugeni and his agency's head of communications, Jasmine, Starck will send the weakest home as and when he feels it necessary. At the end of the series, one lucky British designer will be rewarded with a six-month placement at his design agency.

Here, Programme Information gives the low down on Philippe and all the contestants.

Philippe Starck's early inspiration came from his father, who was an aircraft engineer. The young Philippe spent hours dismantling toys, bikes, motorbikes and any other objects he could lay his hands on, taking apart and reassembling whatever aroused his curiosity. His mother gave him a poetic vision of the world – an approach to life that he calls "panache". It was on his mother's advice that he studied design at Nissim de Camondo in Paris.

Several years and numerous prototypes later, Philippe was commissioned to work for French President François Mitterand. Also at this time, he began creating furniture for leading Italian firms as well as honing his approach to hotels, classic examples of which can be found in New York and Miami. His expressionist architecture even started to spring up in Japan.

Phillippe declared very early on his intention to "give the best to as many people as possible", a lone voice in a world where good design was the exclusive preserve of an elite. There is little that he has not turned his hand to, with design pieces including: furniture, crockery, vases, lighting, spectacles, stationery, wrist watches, sunglasses, children's toys, alarm clocks, boats, hotel rooms, toilet brushes, commercial buildings, houses to be sold by mail order, motorbikes and even the Olympic flame.

Philippe's awards include Designer of the Year, the Grand Prix for Industrial Design, the Design Oscar, Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur and the Compasso d'Oro.

全球知名的德国橱柜制造商Warendorf选择了Philippe Starck来设计。四款全新的橱柜设计被赋予了新的名字。“图书馆”平衡了食物与文化之间的联系；“本色”呈上了一些独特的黄色轮廓美；“二元性”是来源于它相关联的两边；“高塔”可以360度旋转直到你找到需要的东西。