What was Philippe Starck thinking of?
P. Lloyd and D. Snelders, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU
Delft, Landbergstraat 15, 2628 BX Delft, The Netherlands
We argue, using Philippe Starck’s Juicy Salif lemon squeezer as a case
study, that the personal creativity of a designer forms a necessary
condition for a design’s success. It does not, however, form a sufficient
condition. We critically examine the implications of Adrian Forty’s
contention that ‘no design works unless it embodies ideas that are held
in common by the people for whom the object is intended’. We conclude
that rather than looking to ideological factors for a sufficient condition
of design success, it is better to look to descriptions of engaged use
(and mis-use) of products