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Karim Rashid

Karim Rashid

From the course: Objectified

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Karim Rashid

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[Machinery sounds] - Design is about mass production. Design is using industry to produce serialized goods. And I try everything I can in the mass market to really change the goods that people who know nothing about design, or the people who say they don't care about design, or the people who don't believe that their world should have contemporary goods in it. Those are the people I think design could have such an amazing effect on their lives. You know, when I was a teenager, I had this white, from Claritone. I think it was a Canadian company at the time. It was a white kind of bubble stereo with these two bubbled white speakers. And it was probably very inexpensive. It was a real democratic product. And it was a turntable and the whole thing built in. And it was a beautiful thing. It was something that was what I, looking back and thinking why it was a beautiful thing was because it was very self-contained and the message was very strong and very simple and at the same time it was…

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