 Karim Rashid Design Your Self: Rethinking the Way You Live, Love, Work, and Play |
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Karim Rashid Design Your Self: Rethinking the Way You Live, Love, Work, and Play |
 | Karim RashidFormat: Paperback, 336ppPublished: April 2006 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers |
| Publisher info: From design icon Karim Rashid comes the ultimate guide to living your life by design principles in Design Your Self, a futuristic prescription for whole-being minimalism, sensualism, and functionalism, from the inside out. Design Your Self offers dozens of informative tips and vibrant illustrations in Rashid's trademark candy-color design all beautifully packaged with a plastic cover and four different cover versions: bright blue, green, pink, and orange. Widely known as one of the world's most prolific consumer products designers, Karim Rashid has revolutionized the world of product and interior design. From Umbra wastebaskets to Issey Miyake perfume bottles, to the Semiramis hotel in Athens to the Morimoto restaurant in Philadelphia, modern, fluid, minimalist designs are the hallmarks of Rashid's work. Now, in Design Your Self, Rashid brings his trademark hyper-functional design to the task of creating a better you. With a designer's practicality, vision, and creativity, Rashid offers a complete plan for a style and organizational overhaul, from your home to your diet, from beauty to travel, from your sex life to your commute. Rashid's philosophies encourage quality over quantity, space over clutter, clarity over complexity, and a marriage of form and function in every design. Homes are to be large, open spaces that are transformable and reconfigurable, a space that allows objects and furniture to breathe. Colors are to be embraced at every opportunity, and should "pop" with the vibrant energy of our digital world. Furnishings should be multi-use and sensual, invoking comfort and feelings of love. Encouraging readers to embrace the power of change, Rashidexplains how to improve all areas of life, from the home, to the office, to the self, and beyond. Design Your Self contains the whole-being guide to improving your body, to creating a "look" that is an innovative expression of individuality, to being a good friend, to being a great lover, to traveling light, to embracing information and education, and to creating a passionate life. Design Your Self begins with a sensual, spiritual, functional perspective to re-designing your home. "The mantra of your domestic landscape should be: Peace, Tranquility, Fluidity, and Inspiration," he writes. "Your domestic environment should be characterized by positive energy, heightened experiences, and contemporary design. It should be arranged to provide the highest level of comfort and spiritual well being." When you Design Your Self, you will: Learn the three essential measures to dematerialize your space Use addition by subtraction, having more with less Adopt a "sensual minimalism" to styling your home Discover the five simple conditions to dreaming well Learn how to make a life that you love Design your favorite location for having good sex Learn to make Rashid's favorite fast, simple pasta dish Downsize your technology Understand why beauty is yours to give Dare to be different and embrace fashion that speaks your name Reconfigure your office desk to be neat, clean, and empty Discover Rashid's top fashion tips for women & men Get Rashid's must do calendars -- yearly, seasonally, monthly, weekly, and daily Shift your ideas about color, and learn to use it wherever and whenever you can Design Your Self gives straightforward, foolproof, practical advice to design a better you. Rashid's direct, whole-being advice is a must-read for anyone who dreams of designing their destinies, set to the tune of the techno-colored pulse of the future. |