Karim Rashid

He received a bachelor's degree in industrial design from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada in 1982 and finished his postgraduate studies in Italy. Rashid has created over 2000 designs, including projects ranging from interiors, fashion, furniture, lighting, art and music to installations. Born in Cairo to an Egyptian father and an English mother and raised in Canada, Karim now resides in New York where he runs a private design studio. To date he has had approximately 4000 objects put into production and has successfully entered the realm of architectural and interior design, such as: Morimoto restaurant in Philadelphia and Semiramis hotel in Athens. For Italy he also designed the internal fittings of the University Station of line 1 of the Naples Metro, a unique example in Italy of the combination of art and urban mobility. His work is in permanent collections at fourteen museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and San Francisco. Rashid was an associate professor of Industrial Design for 10 years and is now an active participant at universities and conferences worldwide.