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Posted by Steve Portigal | 17 Apr 2006
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From House & Garden comes this awesomely negative review of Karim Rashid's new book.
Considering the chutzpah of the basic conceit, I expected Rashid to pepper the volume with absurd pronouncements. To my great disappointment, the most shocking thing about the book is the banality of the designer's advice: "If you're short, don't worry about it." "Clip and trim your nose hairs." "Make friends online." "Know yourself." Try to imagine Dr. Phil grooving on some pharmaceuticals at the Milan Furniture Fair and you start to get the picture. Predictably, the book is rife with evidence of Rashid's narcissism, but even those passages don't relieve the painful tedium.
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Well, House & Garden has utterly no clue about the hypermodern world we live in! Rashid is an aesthetic and poetic superguru, and this book finally proves it. This book changed my life!
That might be the most on point description of Karim Rashid as a whole that I have ever read. He has done alot of great things for design in the past, it's just a shame his ego and predictability has gotten in the way.
Only Karim Rashid could possibly have enough of an ego to let this book cover ship. Anything clever or interesting he might ever have done recedes into insignificance by comparison.
When people ask me where I go to school to study ID, their typical response usually ends up being about KR and all the wonderful things he's done and wouldn't I be lucky to be so famous. Unfortunately, most people seem to overlook the fact that although its great that Karim has profited from his art, ID's across the world work with much much less and make the lives of so many people better. Show me how Karim's designs help to make this world not just a prettier place, but a better place, and then perhaps he would get more support for his work from designers who have so much less and who are tired of being compared to him. I read his book twice, have met him in person, and still I am not convinced.
While KR is quite obviously not a true designer, as evidenced by his derivative and simplistic work he should be given credit for leveraging his massive chutzpa and profiting from it. He does this very well and we could all take a lesson from it. Think what could be done with his attitude AND good design!
It is amazing how jealous and negative people become just to have something to say. It is obvious that anyone who holds this negative opinion towards this brilliant designer is from the United States. Anyone with a true sense of where design comes from would realize the ability of Rashid to establish his credibility and style from the roots of European descent! True design gets its roots from Europe as does this designer. Following his training and his amazing ability to brake boundaries with a true designers mind, one might want to do a little more research before posting idiotic comments and opinions they have developed from reading his literature. Art and Design history is not emphasized enough. This desinger has learned true design from the masters and has taken the necessary life long commitment to design that we should all be so fortunate to have the balls to intitiate. Without Rashid, there would be no Zaha Hadid and no further development in the design world in the present century. This includes interior and architecture.