evrtstudioJun 15 2009 2:01 PM
Personally, I can\'t stand Karim. I really don\'t care for about 90% of his designs. Take his Dirt Devil redesign for example:
No one wants their vacuum to be a focal point in a room. Plus, the tip of a cone is about the worst ergonomics you could possibly get. Imagine if your hands were wet?
Also, as a photographer and vintage camera enthusiast, I would actually be very sad if they started making cameras that didn\'t look like a camera. In fact, I wish they started making new cameras look like the old.Joel MJun 15 2009 10:25 PM
I guess it\'s a generational thing, perhaps nostalgia, that shapes expectations for a product\'s design. we all long for things that remind us of something familiar, remind us of times when things were \"simple\" maybe. I suppose you could conclude that it all comes back to the \"target market\" -- one being the market for the old, throwback-styled, familiarly-designed products, as well as one for the young, fresh, progressive-thinking, beginner\'s-minded consumers. I wouldn\'t be so quick to toss out a reinvention of the wheel if in fact the new wheel turns quicker and more efficiently.
Karl GilmoreJun 18 2009 11:28 AM
Most of his re-designs resemble but plugs.
robertoJun 22 2009 8:34 AM
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FrederikJun 22 2009 11:57 PM
\"All of a sudden our digital cameras have no film. So why on earth do we have the same shape we have?\"
Because it\'s ergonomic and practical. If it ain\'t broken, don\'t fix it.anonymouseJun 23 2009 5:40 AM
the soap looks like a butt plug. I wonder what he was thinking...
ModiglianiJun 23 2009 12:26 PM
I\'ve just visited the guy\'s website (www.karimrashid.com) and EVERYTHING does indeed look like it is made to be inserted into human body orifices...
Either that or I\'m tryly sick...SkellsieJun 23 2009 6:22 PM
Where are the avatar icons coming from?
SkylarJun 23 2009 6:25 PM
You can set your avatar at http://gravatar.com
SuhailJul 30 2009 4:49 PM
I think his work is pretty amazing. It takes courage and some serious skills to break through the norm.
Excellent blog by the way.IulianAug 20 2009 10:13 AM
My God, dear people, Design is not about beauty alone, as Mr. Rashid preaches & creates, Design has to incorporate (by default) functionality, ergonomics etc.
As much as Mr. Rashid loaths the economic and social factors that come with classic Design, they\'re there for very good reasons. What he creates does have a name, which is Modern Art or Sculpture, but not actual Design.
As Mr. Peter Behrens—one of the first pioneers in Industrial Design in the world—said in the early 1900\'s, Design is supposed to help Art and Mass production/Engineering merge flawlessly and provide the consumer a final product that is both beautiful AND functional. Does any of this ring any bells?samNov 28 2009 6:41 AM
creativity doesn\'t mean that we have to change every thing, specially the things that we can use and touch, please let\'s think about other medias to change it, let\'s keep the camera as the one we know, we can\'t say that canon or Nikon aren\'t creative, their new cameras is really inspires me, when you use it you see the latest innovations that canon or Nikon brought to that cameras.
to come up with new ideas and being creative doesn\'t mean to change the nature, doesn\'t mean that we should change the devices that are already easy to use just because their look didn\'t change since a lot of time.
we can look at new concept designs for cars, and we didn\'t see it a lot on real streets why because they are new but strangely new, and weird. look at Mercedes Benz and you will see that a lot of their designs are similar but they are successful, a lot of car companies come up with different new designs and didn\'t gain that success. like BMW when they decided that they want a new design and they called it the ugly design.
I think we can focus on other medias to make a change and please don\'t make our life filled with weird things, let\'s keep the pencil as we know, so we can be comfortable when we draw.