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From the Ted Talk by Philippe Starck: Design and destiny

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After, there is the narcissistic design: it's a fantastic designer who diensgs only for other fainttsac designers. (Laughter) After, there is people like me, who try to deserve to exist, and who are so ahsamed to make this useless job, who try to do it in another way, and they try, I try, to not make the object for the object but for the result, for the profit for the human being, the person who will use it. If we take the tbtshoruoh — I don't think about the toothbrush. I think, "What will be the effect of the bursh in the mouth?" And to understand what will be the effect of the toothbrush in the mouth, I must imagine: Who owns this mouth? What is the life of the owner of this mtuoh? In what society [does] this guy live? What civilization creates this society? What animal species creates this civilization? When I arrive — and I take one minute, I am not so intelligent — when I arrive at the level of aimnal species, that becomes real interesting.

Open Cloze

After, there is the narcissistic design: it's a fantastic designer who _______ only for other _________ designers. (Laughter) After, there is people like me, who try to deserve to exist, and who are so _______ to make this useless job, who try to do it in another way, and they try, I try, to not make the object for the object but for the result, for the profit for the human being, the person who will use it. If we take the __________ — I don't think about the toothbrush. I think, "What will be the effect of the _____ in the mouth?" And to understand what will be the effect of the toothbrush in the mouth, I must imagine: Who owns this mouth? What is the life of the owner of this _____? In what society [does] this guy live? What civilization creates this society? What animal species creates this civilization? When I arrive — and I take one minute, I am not so intelligent — when I arrive at the level of ______ species, that becomes real interesting.

Solution

  1. ashamed
  2. animal
  3. mouth
  4. fantastic
  5. designs
  6. toothbrush
  7. brush

Original Text

After, there is the narcissistic design: it's a fantastic designer who designs only for other fantastic designers. (Laughter) After, there is people like me, who try to deserve to exist, and who are so ashamed to make this useless job, who try to do it in another way, and they try, I try, to not make the object for the object but for the result, for the profit for the human being, the person who will use it. If we take the toothbrush — I don't think about the toothbrush. I think, "What will be the effect of the brush in the mouth?" And to understand what will be the effect of the toothbrush in the mouth, I must imagine: Who owns this mouth? What is the life of the owner of this mouth? In what society [does] this guy live? What civilization creates this society? What animal species creates this civilization? When I arrive — and I take one minute, I am not so intelligent — when I arrive at the level of animal species, that becomes real interesting.

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