Karim Rashid Lecture

Karim Rashid is a leading figure in product and interior design, furniture, lighting, and art. Working with an impressive array of clients over the years including Alessi, Umbra, Prada, Issey Miyake, and Method, Karim has infused consumer culture with his signature Sensual Minimalism. To date, around 2500 objects designed by him have been produced. Successes such as the Dirt Devil Kone, Umbra Garbo, and Method Home designs illustrate Karim’s ethos of affordable, democratic design for the masses. Karim’s language has graced all aspects of life from furniture to cosmetics, artwork to architecture. His award winning interior work includes the Morimoto restaurant in Philadelphia and Semiramis hotel in Athens as well as many retail stores and restaurants world wide. A perennial winner of the Chicago Athenaeum Good Design award, I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review and Red Dot Award, Karim was also honored early in his career with the prestigious Daimler Chrysler Design Award, and the Brooklyn Museum Young Designer of the Year Award. Recently he received the International Furnishings and Design Association Circle of Excellence Award for Industrial Design and Pratt Legend Award. His work is in the permanent collections of 15 Museums worldwide including The Museum of Arts and Design and the Museums of Modern Art in New York and San Francisco. He also exhibits art galleries in New York and around the world.. Drawing upon his 10 years experience as an associate Professor of Industrial design at the Rhode Island School of Design and Pratt Institute, Karim is now a frequent guest lecturer at universities and conferences globally. Karim has published his guide to living Design Your Self from Regan Books, Digipop, a digital exploration of computer graphics (Taschen 2005), a portfolio book published by Chronicle Books (2004), as well as two monographs titled Evolution (Universe, 2004) and I Want to Change the World, (Rizzoli, 2001). He edited the International Design Yearbook 18 for Calman and King in 2003 and released two CD’s on boutique label, Neverstop. $10/ $9 members Visit site to purchase tickets. http://www.madmuseum.org/DO/Calendar/200903/Karim Rashid.aspx Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle