Karim Rashid

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Karim Rashid
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Born 1960
Cairo, Egypt
Occupation Industrial Designer
Karim Rashid talks to the press at Innoprom-2012

Karim Rashid is a industrial designer and interior architect. His designs include luxury goods, furniture, lighting, surface design, brand identity and packaging.

Karim has designed interiors such as the Morimoto restaurant, Philadelphia; Semiramis hotel, Athens; nhow hotel, Berlin; Universita Metro Station, Naples as well as exhibition design for Deutsche Bank and Audi.

Karim's work is featured in 20 permanent collections and he exhibits in galleries world wide. Karim is a winner of the Red Dot award, Chicago Athenaeum Good Design award, I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review, IDSA Industrial Design Excellence award.

Karim is a guest lecturer at universities and conferences disseminating the importance of design in everyday life. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the OCAD, Toronto and Corcoran College of Art & Design, Washington. Karim has been featured in magazines and books including Time, Vogue, Esquire, GQ, and Wallpaper.

Karim's latest monograph, Sketch (Frame Publishing, 2012), features 300 hand and digital drawings selected from the last 25 years. Other books include KarimSpace, featuring 36 of Karim's interior architecture designs (Rizzoli, 2009); Design Your Self, Karim's guide to living (Harper Collins, 2006); Digipop, a digital exploration of computer graphics (Taschen, 2005); Compact Design Portfolio (Chronicle Books 2004); as well as two monographs, titled Evolution (Universe, 2004) and I Want to Change the World (Rizzoli, 2001).

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Career[edit]

Born in Cairo, Egypt to an Egyptian father and English mother, and raised in Canada, Karim now lives in New York managing his private design studio. To date he has had some 3000 objects put into production and has successfully entered the realm of architecture and interiors, designing the Morimoto restaurant in Philadelphia and Semiramis Hotel in Athens. His work is in the permanent collections of fourteen museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou in Paris, and he exhibits art in various galleries. Rashid was an associate Professor of Industrial Design for 10 years at University of the Arts, Philadelphia, (1996 to 2005) Pratt Institute, Brooklyn (1993 to 1999), and RISD (1991–1992). He also taught part-time at OCAD (1997–1999) and is now a frequent guest lecturer at universities and conferences globally.

Rashid's award winning designs include objects such as the Garbo waste can and Oh Chair for Umbra, bobble water bottle, interiors such as the Morimoto restaurant, Philadelphia and Semiramis hotel, Athens and exhibitions for Deutsche Bank and Audi. Rashid has collaborated with clients to create designs for Method and Dirt Devil, bikes for Biomega,[1] furniture for Artemide and Magis, brand identity for Citibank and Hyundai, high tech products for LaCie and Samsung, and luxury goods for Veuve Clicquot, Swarovski and Kenzo,[2] to name a few. Designed wrist watch for Italian company Alessi.

In 2012, Danish designer and manufacturer BoConcept collaborated with Rashid, to create the Ottawa Collection, which won the Red Dot Design Award.[3]

Awards and honors[edit]

  • Designer Magazine – Simon Taylor Award for Lifetime Achievement, 2012
  • IF Packaging design Awards, several awards from 2001–2012
  • GOOD DESIGN Awards, several awards from 1997–2012
  • Red Dot distinction for high design quality, several awards from 2005–2012
  • Interior Design Best of the Year Awards, several awards from 2004–2012
  • Pentawards, several gold and silver wards from 2001 to 2012
  • Emirates Leaf International Award, 2011
  • Hall of fame inductee http://www.interiordesign.net/channel/Hall_of_Fame.php 2010
  • IDSA Industrial Design Excellence Award Finalist: Asus EeePC 1008P Karim Collection 2010
  • Special Pentawards for creativity in packaging design, 2009
  • Honorary Graduate of AWARD School, Australia 2009
  • Compasso d'Oro Award: Signaling for the Horm Tide cabinet 2008
  • Karim's design for the Deutsche Bank Lounge received the FAMAB ADAM Award 2007
  • The Fragrance Foundation's FiFi Awards: Best Packaging – Women's Prestige for Kenzo Amour, 2007
  • Gok Wan Lookalike Award, 2006
  • Honorary Doctorate from the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD), 2006
  • Pratt Legends Award, 2006
  • Time Magazine Best Products of 2005: Gaia & Gino Happy People Glasses and Kari-ari-arim-rim
  • The Semiramis Hotel earned the Sleep05 European Hotel Design Award, 2005
  • Honorary Doctorate from Corcoran College of Art and Design, 2005
  • A.D. Dunton Alumni Award of Distinction from Carleton University (his alma mater), 2004
  • Best Retail Store in the USA, 2003
  • I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review Best of Category, several awards from 1997–2007
  • Daimler Chrysler Design Award, Southfield, MI, USA 1999
  • Virtu National Design Competition Awards , Canada 1985 to 1997

http://www.karimrashid.com/awards_fr.html

Publications[edit]

  • Ideology of Beauty: Karim Rashid, Milovac, Tihomir – MSU Zagreb 2012
  • KarimSketch : Frame Publishers 2012, a monograph – ISBN 9077174613 ISBN 978-9077174616
  • I Protagonisti del Design: Karim Rashid, Colanna-Preti, Stefania, Hachette, 2012, a monograph
  • KarimSpace: the interior design and architecture of Karim Rashid , 2009, a monograph Rizzoli ISBN 978-0847832316
  • Design Your Self: Rethinking the Way You Live, Love, Work, and Play, Collins / Regan Books, 2006, a guide to living ISBN 978-0060839024
  • Digipop Taschen, 2005, a digital exploration of computer graphics ISBN 978-3822839959
  • Evolution Karim Rashid, Universe Rizzoli, 2004, a monograph ISBN 978-0789311979
  • A portfolio book, Karim Rashid, Chronicle Books, 2004 ISBN 0811842088
  • International Design Yearbook 18, Karim Rashid editor, Calmann and King, 2003
  • I Want to Change the World, Karim Rashid, Universe Rizzoli, 2001, a monograph ISBN 978-0789305312
  • Two CDs on a boutique label, Neverstop, USA 1999, compilations

Personal life[edit]

Karim lives in New York, with offices in Manhattan and Amsterdam. Karim is once divorced. He married Serbian chemical engineer Ivana Purić, on September 1, 2008 in New York City and Belgrade. He was married to Painter Megan Lang, 1995 to 2005. Karim does not have any children. He is the brother of architect Hani Rashid and has a sister musician/painter Soraya Rashid. [4][5] Time magazine called him the "Most Famous Industrial Designer in All the Americas".[6]

Art shows and exhibitions[edit]

  • Oct 2012 Ideology of Beauty, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
  • Sept 2012 Karim Rashid 20X12, Gering&Lopez Gallery, NYC, USA
  • Jun–Oct 2011 Avant Premiere, Group installation Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
  • Jun–Oct 2011 Sign off Design, Group sculpture installation Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
  • Nov 2011 Elephant Parade, public art installation across Singapore
  • Sept 2011 Karim Goes Dutch, retrospective of designs at Woonbeurs, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Mar–Jun 2011 Karimodworks, retrospective, MOD, Moscow, Russia
  • Apr 2011 Effetto Acciaio, Edizioni Galleria Colombari, Milan, Italy
  • Apr 2011 Karim Sampler: Last 15 Years, Triennale, Milan, Italy
  • Dec–Jan 2011 LED light installation at the International LED Festival, Milan, Italy
  • Nov 2010 Unplanned Brutalism – Vintage20, NYC, USA
  • Sept 2010 Karim Rashid New Work – Spoke Club, Toronto, Canada
  • Sept 2010 Edizioni Galleria Colombari – Pavilion Art & Design, Stand 43, London, England
  • June 2010 Technoorganic – Object Gallery, Claremont, CA, USA
  • May 2010 The Hand Of the Designer – group show, Molesine, 210 Eleventh Ave, NYC/td>
  • Apr 2010 Blobulous – Edizioni Galleria Colombari, via Maroncelli 10, Milano, Italy
  • Mar 2010 Retrospective – Festival inSPIRACJE City, Szczecin, Poland
  • Mar 2010 Blobular World – Exhibition, Galeria Arte em Dobro, Rio, Brazil
  • Aug 2009 Reinventing Ritual- group exhibition, The Jewish Museum, NYC, USA
  • Aug 2009 Retrospective- Promenade du Port, Porto Cervo, Portugal
  • Aug 2009 Blobulous Worlds- digital art exhibition, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • May–June 2009 Konvolution- ceramic collection for Bitossi, Agatha Ruiz de la Prada Store, New York
  • Apr 2009 Eco Trans Pop- group exhibition, Paola Colombari Gallery, Milan, Italy
  • Apr 2009 New Design – Galerie Yves Gastou, Paris, France
  • Mar 2009 Totally Rad – curated by Karim for the MAD Museum, New York, USA
  • Oct 2008 Art and Design in a Global World – retrospective, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Oct 2008 From 15 minutes into the Future – retrospective, Domotecka Design, Warsaw, Poland
  • July 2008 Blobulous – limited edition chairs and prints, Photo & Contemporary Gallery, Turin, Italy
  • Apr 2008 Kasa Digitalia – Concept Laminate House, Milan Triennale, Milan, Italy
  • Apr 2008 Eliptik – One Off Sculpture, Light Lounge, Milan, Italy
  • Apr 2008 Blobulous – limited edition chairs and prints, Paola Colombari Gallery, Milan, Italy
  • Apr 2008 From 15 minutes into the Future – Retrospective, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia,
  • Apr 2008 Second Skin – group exhibition, Museo de Arte Contemoraneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
  • Feb 2008 Bloblove – digital aluminum paintings and rotomolded sculpture, Elga Wimmer Gallery, NYC, US
  • Jan 2008 Sex in Design/Design in Sex – group show featuring digital paintings and sketches, Museum of Sex, NYC, US
  • Dec 2007 Plastic Blobular Worlds – digital prints and rotomolded sculpture, Gallery Hotel, Singapore
  • Nov 2007 Karim Retrospective – prints and product retrospective, OCAD, Toronto, Canada
  • Aug 2007 Art Box – Glicee prints, Karim Rashid Shop, NYC, US
  • Jun 2007 Plastic Blobular Worlds – screenprints and digital prints, Courtyard Gallery, Dubai, UAE
  • Jun 2007 Hotel Shpw – Concept Hotel Room, Dubai Hotel Show, Dubai, UAE

http://www.karimrashid.com/events_fr.html Karim has been credited by Bruce Sterling with coining the term "blobject"

References[edit]

  1. ^ Biomega site with Karim Rashid as one of the company's designers
  2. ^ KenzoAmour Product Page at kenzousa.com
  3. ^ Susan Thurston (April 17, 2013). "BoConcept furniture, Smart car join hands". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved April 19, 2013. 
  4. ^ New York magazine: One Is the Loveliest Color
  5. ^ Swindle Magazine interview by Caroline Ryder
  6. ^ Time Magazine article by Belinda Luscombe: Design: The Poet of Plastic

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