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Karim Rashid is one of the most prolific designers of his generation. Over 3000 projects in production, over 300 awards and collaborations in 35 countries attest its importance in the design world. Its diversity gives it the possibility to realize a fertile contamination between ideas, materials, behavior and aesthetics in the different typologies, crossing the boundaries and expanding the horizons of consumption.
Karim obtained a degree in Industrial Design in 1982 at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and continued his design studies in Naples with Ettore Sottsass and others, and then moved for a year to Milan, to Studio Rodolfo Bonetto. On returning to Canada, he worked for seven years with KAN Industrial Designers. In this period, from 1985 to 1991, he was co-founder and collaborator of the Babel Fashion Collection and North. In 1992 he opened his own design studio in New York and in 2010 he extended his presence with the opening of another studio in Amsterdam.
His award-winning projects cover democratic items, such as the Garbo trash bin and the Oh for Umbra chair, interiors such as the Morimoto restaurant in Philadelphia and the Semiramis hotel in Athens, and exhibitions for Deutsche Bank and Audi. Karim has worked with clients to create a democratic design for Method and Dirt Devil, furnishings 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, both to name a few.
Karim’s works are present in 20 permanent collections and exhibited in art galleries all over the world. Karim has won several times the Red Dot Award, the Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Award, the I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review and the IDSA Industrial Design Excellence Award. He received honorary degrees from the Ontario College of Art & Design and the Corcoran College of Art & Design. In 2008 Tomie Ohtake Institute in Sao Paulo, Brazil, presented the largest retrospective of Karim to date. More recently, Karim curated the Totally Rad exhibition: Karim Rashid realizes radiators for the Museum of Art and Design in New York. Karim is often invited to speak at universities and at conferences all over the world, which spread the importance of design in everyday life.
In his spare time, Karim’s pluralism flirts with art, fashion and music and is determined to creatively touch every aspect of our physical and virtual landscape.
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