Karim Rashid (1960) is Egyptian-born and Canadian-raised industrial designer. His designs include luxury goods, furniture, lighting, surface design, brand identity and packaging. Time magazine has described him as the "most famous industrial designer in all the Americas" and the "Prince of Plastic". He is based in New York City, as well as Belgrade, Miami and Mexico.
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Career
Rashid received a Bachelor of Industrial Design in 1982 from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He pursued graduate design studies in Naples, Italy, with Ettore Sottsass. He then moved to Milan for one year at the Rodolfo Bonetto Studio.
Rashid went on to work with KAN Industrial Designers in Canada for 7 years, where he created x-ray equipment. Between 1985 until 1991 he co-founded and designed the Babel Fashion Collection and North. In 1993 Rashid opened his own private design studio in New York City.
Karim's work is featured in 20 permanent collections and he exhibits art in galleries worldwide including the MoMA, Centre Pompidou, and SFMOMA.
Rashid's designs include the Umbra Garbo waste can, the Umbra Oh Chair, a concept store for Giorgio Armani, manhole covers for the sewers of New York, perfume bottles for Kenzo, bobble water bottle, watches and tableware for Alessi, lighting for Artemide and products for Veuve Clicquot. He has also worked with Audi, Samsung, Swarowski and Armani. In addition Rashid has designed for Kenzo, Method, Bombay Saffire, Finé Water Japan, Sexy Beast USA, Davidoff, Issey Miyake, Estee Lauder.
In 2012, Rashid had a collaboration with artist Terence Koh, for a limited edition of winter coats for the 10th anniversary of the Italian Brand Peuterey.
Rashid was selected in 2014 to design several real estate developments in New York City for HAP Investments, a New York City-based International investment group.
In 2016, it was announced that Rashid is designing the multimillion-dollar makeover of Temptation Resort and Spa, in Cancun Mexico.
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Awards
He holds honorary doctorate degrees from the OCAD University (formerly Ontario College of Art & Design) in 2006, Pratt Institute in 2014 and Corcoran College of Art & Design in 2005. And in 2016 an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Laws, or honoris causa, from Carleton University. Karim is a frequent guest lecturer at conferences, speaking about the importance of design in everyday life.
In 2012, Danish designer and manufacturer BoConcept collaborated with Rashid to create the Ottawa Collection, which won the Red Dot Design Award. Rashid has won the George Nelson Award in 1999 and the Canadian Designer of the Year award in 2001.
In 2010 Rashid won the Pentawards, a worldwide packaging design awards competition. The award (silver) was won jointly by Box House and Karim Rashid Studio. He is the very first designer to receive this special Pentaward for his creative excellence in packaging design.
In 2017 Rashid was awarded the Lawrence Israel Prize by the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.
Personal life
Rashid was born in 1960 in Cairo, Egypt to an Egyptian father and English mother. He was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and had developmental delays and a speech impediment. The family emigrated to Canada where Rashid was raised. Rashid attended high school in Mimico, Toronto, Ontario. Rashid is the brother of famed architect, Hani Rashid, of Asymptote.
Karim was formerly married to digital painter Megan Lang in 1995, but the couple later divorced. He met Lang in 1991 while Rashid was briefly teaching as an assistant professor at Rhode Island School of Design, she was an undergraduate student at the time.
In 2008, Rashid married Ivana Rashid (née Puric), a Serbian chemical engineer. Together they have one child, Kiva Rashid born in 2013 and live in New York City. Often also living in Belgrade, Miami and in Mexico.
Karim is known for wearing white or pink clothing.
Publications
- 2014 Karim Rashid: From the Beginning
- 2013 Karim Rashid - Ideologija ljepote Tihomir Milovac. (in Croatian). Zagreb: Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti, 2013
- 2012 I Protagonisti del Design: Karim Rashid. Milan: Hachette, 2012
- 2012 Sketch: Karim
- 2009 Karim Rashid Space: The Architecture Of Karim Rashid
- 2006 Design Your Self: Rethinking the Way You Live, Love, Work, and Play
- 2005 I Want To Change The World
- 2005 Digipop
- 2004 Karim Rashid: Evolution New York, NY: Universe, 2004. ISBN 978-0789311979
- 2004 Karim Rashid. San Francisco: * Marisa Bartolucci, Raul Cabra. Karim Rashid. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, ISBN 9780811842082
- 2003 International Design Yearbook 18
- 2001 I Want to Change the World. New York, NY: Universe Rizzoli, 2001. ISBN 978-0789305312
References
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