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Karim
Rashid is best known for bringing his democratic
design sensibility to the masses. Designing for
an impressive array of clients including Nambe,
Prada, Miyake and Method, Karim is radically changing
the aesthetics of product design and the nature
of consumer culture. To date he has had some 2000
objects put into production. His design for the
Semiramis hotel in Athens was recently awarded a
Sleep05 European Hotel Design Award for Best Interior
Design Public Areas. Karim has published two monographs
titled Karim
Rashid: I Want to Change the World  and Karim
Rashid: Evolution as well as a biography published by Chronicle
and Digipop a digital exploration of computer graphics.
His latest book is Design
Your Self: Rethinking the Way You Live, Love, Work,
and Play.
Keynote: How does the material
world need to catch up?
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