Karim Rashid is one of the most prolific designers of hisgeneration. Over 3000 designs in production, over 300 awards and working in over 35 countries attest to Karim’s legend of design. Karim’s diversity affords him the ability to cross-pollinate ideas, materials, behaviors, and aesthetics from one typology to the next, crossing boundaries and broadening consumer horizons across the globe.

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. 2008 highlighted Karim’s largest retrospective to date at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake, in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Most recently, Karim curated the exhibition Totally Rad: Karim Rashid does Radiators for Museum of Art and Design in New York City. Karim is a frequent guest lecturer at universities and conferences globally disseminating the importance of design in everyday life.

Karim has been featured in magazines and books including Time, Financial Times, NY Times, Esquire, GQ and countless others. 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.

Nhow Hotel, Berlin, Germany To open 2010

Baiyoke Sky Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand To open 2011

Prizeotel, Bremen, Germany Completed 2009

MyHotel, Brighton, UKCompleted 2008

Semiramis Hotel, Athens, Greece Completed 2004

MGM City Center Silk Road Restaurant, Las Ve-gas, USA Completed 2010

MGM City Center Sweet Chill, Las Vegas, USA Completed 2010

Switch, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Completed 2009

Market, Atlanta, USACompleted 2008

Majik, Belgrade, Serbia Completed 2008

Askew, New York USA Completed 2005

Four Food Studio, Long Island, USA Completed 2005

Nooch, New York, USA Completed 2004

Nooch Express, Singapore Completed 2005

Morimoto, Philadelphia, USA Completed 2001

RETAIL DESIGN

Agatha Ruiz de la Prada Shop, New York, NYTo open 2010

Fun Factory, Berlin, Germany Completed 2010

Cupid Jewels, Singapore, Singapore Completed 2010

Cupid Jewels, Beijing, ChinaCompleted 2010

Ooza Zdravlja Pharmacy, Belgrade, Serbia Completed 2009

Bosco Pi Youth Store, Moscow, Russia Completed 2008

Ralph Lauren Concept Cosmetic Store, USA Not built

Nambe Flagship, Denver, USA Completed 2005

Corian Smart-ologic, Milan, Italy Completed 2010

Refin Booth, Bologna, Italy Completed 2008

Kasa Digitalia for Abet Laminati, Milan, Italy Completed 2008

Origami Kitchen, Cairo, Egypt Completed 2007

Hotel Room of the Future, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Completed 2007

Construmat bathroom Utopia, Barcelona, Spain Completed 2007

Deustche Bank Lounge, Cologne, Germany Completed 2006

Kithouse, Toronto, Canada Completed 2006

Audi A4 Launch, Seoul, KoreaCompleted 2005

Mind Body and Soul, Seoul, Korea Completed 2004

Ideal House, Cologne, Germany Completed 2003

PUBLIC SPACES

Queens University Human Media Lab, Ontario, Canada To open 2011

Naples Subway Station, Naples ItalyCompleted 2010

MGM City Center Arcade, Las Vegas, USACompleted 2010

Mozzart Betting, Belgrade, Serbia Completed 2009

World Lounge, Istambul, Turkey Completed 2008

Powder Nightclub, New York, USA Completed 2002

Mediatech Sendai, Sendai, Japan Completed 2000

Corian Smart-logic, Milan 2010

restaurant Switch, Dubai, UAE 2009

restaurant Switch, Dubai, UAE 2009

Pharmacy, Belgrade 2009

Pharmacy, Belgrade 2009 Left, Audi Korea 2004 Right, Abet Laminati 2008