
In 2014, MODA will spotlight an exhibition titled, Revolution by Design: Innovating for a Better World, to be on show at the museum in Midtown Atlanta from May 25 to August 3.
When, in 2008, Philippe Starck announced to a German newspaper that he would shift his focus from the design of luxury objects to the design of useful things such as wind turbines, he declared: “everything that I designed is absolutely unnecessary.” In announcing his move away from the late twentieth-century trend of design for design’s sake, Starck joined a design revolution already underway, becoming one of a cadre of designers who eschewed the creation of highly-priced and highly-styled objects in favor of design projects meant to solve problems worldwide.
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