martes, 29 de junio de 2010

Karim Rashid

Karim Rashid "I Want to Change the World!"




Karim Rashid is one of the most prolific designers of his generation. Over 3000 designs in production, over 300 awards and working in over 35 countries attest to Karim's legend of design. His award winning designs include democratic objects such as the ubiquitous Garbo waste can and Oh Chair for Umbra, interiors such as the Morimoto restaurant, Philadelphia and Semiramis hotel, Athens and exhibitions for Deutsche Bank and Audi. Karim has collaborated with clients to create democratic design for Method and Dirt Devil, furniture for Artemide and Magis, brand identity for Citibank and Hyundai, high tech products for LaCie and Samsung, and luxury goods for Veuve Clicquot and Swarovski, to name a few. Karim's work is featured in 20 permanent collections and he exhibits art in galleries world wide. Karim is a perennial winner of the Red Dot award, Chicago Athenaeum Good Design award, I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review, IDSA Industrial Design Excellence award.




He holds honorary doctorates from the Ontario college of Art & Design and Corcoran College of Art & Design. Karim is a frequent guest lecturer at universities and conferences globally disseminating the importance of design in everyday life. Karim's has been featured in magazine and books including Time, Financial Times, NY Times, Esquire, GQ and countless more. In 2009 Rizzoli released Karim's latest monograph KarimSpace, featuring 36 of Karim's interior architecture designs. Other books include Karim's guide to living, 'Design Your Self' (Harper Collins, 2006), 'Digipop', a digital exploration of computer graphics (Taschen, 2005), compact portfolio published by Chronicle Books (2004), as well as two monographs titled 'Evolution' (Universe, 2004) and 'I Want to Change the World' (Rizzoli, 2001). In his spare time Karim's pluralism flirts with DJing, art and fashion and is determined to creatively touch every aspect of our physical landscape.









lunes, 28 de junio de 2010

Sucesos importantes

ALGUNOS SUCESOS IMPORTANTES


1823 Se crea la fotografía
1840 Nace Claude Monet
1851 Inauguración del palacio de cristal con la gran exposición de las culturas
1860 Mas de 1000 fotógrafos aficionados. Nace el Arts & Crafts
1871 Manet es criticado por pintar Olimpia
1874 Primera exposición de los impresionistas
1874 Morisot expone le barceau, única obra de la que se hablaba bien
1881 Degas presenta "la pequeña bailarina" en una exposición
1890- 1905 Art Nouveau, a partir de la influencia de Arts & Crafts
1899 Biombo con las 4 hrs de día de Alphonse Mucha




1900 Termina el Arts & Crafts
Entrada del metro en Paris de Hector Guimard
1900- 1914 Construcción del Parque Güell de Antonio Gaudí
1900- 1930 La estética de la maquina
1902 Silla Hill house de mackintosh
1909 Sale el modelo T de Ford
1912 Se hunde el Titanic
Zeppelin
1914 Inicia la primera guerra mundial
1918 Silla rojiazul de Gerrit Rietveld
1919- 1933 Nace la Bauhaus en Alemania influenciada por nuevas corrientes de arte
1923 Se descubre la tumba de Tutankamon
1924 Muere Lenin
1925- 1939 Nace el Art Deco como influencia del arte Egipcio
1925 Se presenta en Paris la exposición de las artes decorativas
Andre Breton lanza el primer manifiesto surrealista
1927 Se presenta la primer película sonora en EUA “Cantante de Jazz”
1928 Silla voladiza de Marcel Breuer
1931 Se cierra temporalmente la Bauhaus
Dali pinta la persistencia de la memoria
1935 Aparece el primer prototipo Volkswagen
Inicio de la segunda guerra mundial
1935- 1955 Consumismo y estilo
1945 Termina por la bomba de Hiroshima y Nagasaki
1946 Bikini


1947 La India de independiza de Inglaterra
Christian Dior empieza su carrera
Vespa de Piaggio
1955 Cadillac clásico
1955- 1975 Pop Art
1959 La rev. de Cuba lleva a Fidel al poder
Nace Barbie
1960 Alfred Hitchcock filma “psicosis”
1961 Construyen el muro de Berlin
Primer píldora anticonceptiva
1962 Se suicida Marilyn Monroe
1964 Inicia la guerra de Vietnam
Beatles lanzan “Yeah! Yeah!”
1969 Lega el hombre a la luna
1970 Se inventa betamax
1971 Se filma “naranja mecánica”
Muere Coco Chanel
1973 Termina la guerra de Vietnam
Muere Picasso
1975 Bill Gates funda Microsoft
1977 George Lucas filma “star wars”
1984 Madona lanza •like a Virgin•
2000 Bélgica crea el look “basura letal”