Now Reading | 3 Design Lessons from Karim Rashid
http://www.printmag.com/events/3-design-lessons-karim-rashid/
This little article was a quick but insightful read. It highlights one of the design worlds most prolific designers. Karim Rashid’s resume includes 3,000 designs in production, more than 300 awards, seven published books, and more than 100 global exhibitions of his work. He’s a busy guy. But through his impressive body of work, Print Magazine pulled out three significant truths.
1. Design principles transcend disciplines.
Rashid picked up on the idea that good design is good design, no matter the medium, long before his rise to stardom. In a recent New York Post article, he shares: “I remember being 13 or 14 and looking at a book of Le Corbusier and thinking what an amazing architect he was, but he also designed clothes and painted—he was a pluralist. And my father, he was not only a painter and a set designer for film and TV, but he also designed every piece of furniture in our house and built it.”
2. Good design knows no economic boundaries.
Rather than typecasting himself as either the high-end or everyman’s designer, Rashid applies his design sensibilities to everything from luxury goods for Christofle, Veuve Clicquot and Alessi to democratic products for Umbra, Bobble and 3M.
3. Beautiful design should be ubiquitous.
In his Karimanifesto, Rashid writes: “Every business should be completely concerned with beauty—it is after all a collective human need. I believe that we could be living in an entirely different world—one that is full of real contemporary inspiring objects, spaces, places, worlds, spirits and experiences. Design has been the cultural shaper of our world from the start. We have designed systems, cities and commodities. We have addressed the world’s problems. Now design is not about solving problems, but about a rigorous beautification of our built environments.”
Rashid will be a guest speaker at this years HOW Design Live.
