Karim Rashid

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Biographie

Karim Rashid est un célèbre designer égyptien né au Caire en 1960 et élevé en Angleterre et au Canada. Il obtient en 1982 un diplôme en Design industriel délivré par l’université d’Ottawa (Canada). Il poursuivit ensuite avec des études supérieures en Design à Naples (Italie), en compagnie d’Ettore Sottsass et d’autres, avant de déménager à Milan pour un an où il travailla au studio Rodolfo Bonetto.

A son retour au Canada, il travailla pendant sept ans pour KAN Industrial Designers. En même temps, il co-fonda et développa la collection Babel Fashion. Il ouvrit sa propre enseigne à New York en 1993. Depuis lors, il a dessiné des produits, des articles de table et des meubles pour des compagnies telles que Nambé, Umbra, Idée, Issey Miyake, Pure Design, Zeritalia, Fasem, Guzzini, Tommy Hilfiger, Sony, Magis, Leonardo, Zanotta, Citibank, Totem et d’autres. Il remporta un grand nombre de prix, notamment le Daimler Chrysler 1999 Award; le George Nelson Award 1999; le Silver IDEA Award pour la “Chaise Oh” en 1999; et le Philadelphia Museum of Art Collab Award 1999.

Official bio

Karim Rashid is one of the most prolific designers of his generation. Over 3000 designs in production, over 300 awards and working in over 35 countries attest to Karim’s legend of design. His award winning designs include democratic objects such as the ubiquitous Garbo waste can and Oh Chair for Umbra, interiors such as the Morimoto restaurant, Philadelphia and Semiramis hotel, Athens and exhibitions for Deutsche Bank and Audi. Karim has collaborated with clients to create democratic design for Method and Dirt Devil, furniture for Artemide and Magis, brand identity for Citibank and Hyundai, high tech products for LaCie and Samsung, and luxury goods for Veuve Clicquot and Swarovski, to name a few. Karim’s work is featured in 20 permanent collections and he exhibits art in galleries world wide. Karim is a perennial winner of the Red Dot award, Chicago Athenaeum Good Design award, I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review, IDSA Industrial Design Excellence award.

He holds honorary doctorates from the Ontario college of Art & Design and Corcoran College of Art & Design. Karim is a frequent guest lecturer at universities and conferences globally disseminating the importance of design in everyday life. Karim’s has been featured in magazine and books including Time, Financial Times, NY Times, Esquire, GQ and countless more. In 2009 Rizzoli released Karim’s latest monograph KarimSpace, featuring 36 of Karim’s interior architecture designs. Other books include Karim’s guide to living, ‘Design Your Self’ (Harper Collins, 2006), ‘Digipop’, a digital exploration of computer graphics (Taschen, 2005), compact portfolio published by Chronicle Books (2004), as well as two monographs titled ‘Evolution’ (Universe, 2004) and ‘I Want to Change the World’ (Rizzoli, 2001). In his spare time Karim’s pluralism flirts with DJing, art and fashion and is determined to creatively touch every aspect of our physical landscape.