Half English half Egyptian Rashid was raised
in Toronto, Canada. With a career that began at age nineteen he
is now the creator of more than two hundred designs, ranging from
coat racks to mailboxes, perfume packaging to lighting, tableware
to high fashion and even the award winning Semiramis Hotel, Athens,
Greece.
He has published two monographs, including ‘I Want To Change
The World’, edited the International Design Yearbook, explored
the digital explosion of computer graphics and released two CD’s.
His Garbo trash can, within two years of production, has become
a design icon, having sold in excess off two million units.
His commercial success has been mirrored by critical acclaim;
his work is in the permanent collections of 14 museums worldwide,
including The MOMA, New York.
In addition to overseeing his own practice, Rashid was an associate
professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia for 10
years and has taught at a variety of institutions.
He has also received a number of awards for his designs, including
the 1999 George Nelson Award, a Silver IDEA Award, a "Best
of Category" recognition in I.D. Magazine's annual design
review and the 2005 Pratt Legends Award.
He plans to continue enriching the experience of products, at
the same time critiquing the overabundance of merely adequately
designed products. "I want industrial design to be a public
subject. I want to design something that ups the ante. I want people
to love objects the way they love clothing."
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