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Designer gives news a Starck look

John Lichfield
Wednesday 12 March 2003 01:00 GMT
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The French designer Philippe Starck, known for his bizarre re-creations of everyday objects from toothbrushes to lamp stands, was let loose for one day on the centre-left newspaper Libération yesterday.

Starck designed a conventional newspaper, except that generally the headlines were white-on-black, the illustrations were squashed underneath them and across the bottom of all 40 pages were slogans reminiscent of the scrolling news used by 24-hour news channels.

The mostly anti-US slogans included: "Let's get radical", "Refuse the new totalitarianism" and "Fight monopolies".

Libération is to have a new design from next month. Starck's ideas are not expected to figure permanently.

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