Designer gives news a Starck look
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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