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Design Your Self: Rethinking the Way You Live, Love, Work, and Play By Karim Rashid ( Collins Design )
Release Date: 2006-04-01
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Product Description
Celebrated industrial designer Karim Rashid explains how to optimize all areas of life, aesthetic and spiritual, in this colorful, beautifully designed book. Design wonderkind Karim Rashid, whose projects range from the Trump Towers apartments to Lacoste sportswear to the ubiquitous Umbra garbage can, prescribes an organizational and style overhaul in Design Your Life. In short, sharp chapters, he tackles topics as diverse as the wardrobe, office space, love life, and diet, answering perplexing questions like how to properly pack a suitcase, use colors to accent a room, and carve out free time in a busy schedule. Whether the reader is looking to redesign his physical space or spiritual life, Design Your Life offers comprehensive guidance that is straightforward and easy to follow. Rashid's philosophies center on quality over quantity, space over clutter, clarity over complexity, and a marriage of form and function in every design. With each page in vibrant color and packed with his charming artwork and sketches, Design Your Life is an ideal gift book–and the very embodiment of Rashid's functional style.
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 Excellent handbook for creating the future ( stanley_bruce )
This is a great book by a great designer. The perspective and information Karim presents is consummately modern, and the book is very well designed to help drive home some of the messages.
I would highly recommend this book as a manual for living in the modern world, and working towards a more fluid, well designed, and sustainable future.
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Life by Karim ( mendoniantheory )
An inspirational personal design book written by one of the masters of modern product design. Though parts of the book can be preachy and out of touch with middle-class society, take what he recommends and apply it within the context of your own life. No, I'm not going to replace my wardrobe with 30 matching white, silver, and pink microfiber shirts, but I will be more design conscious about decisions when it comes it each facet of life (Live, Love, Work, Play). If you're tired of traditional self-help books, this comes recommended.
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good read
This book struck me first in their design and then the content. I must say some of the things in there are pretty common sense, things you already know but it just sort of reminds you that you need to do this or that to get your life even more ironed out.
I especially like the what to do at which age part. As with any similar kind of book, you need to be doing the things in it to benefit.
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Wonderfully Insightful ( hoosiercottage )
Rashid talks about designing your own life by your own rules. Somewhat ironically, he provides you with many of his own "rules" for doing so. But don't let that steer you from this book. He provides an amazing approach to building and growing in today's modern world. You don't have to agree with all suggestions and ideas, but it will help you understand what it means to live a life that is substantially more fulfilling than the typical paint-by-numbers, status quo lifestyle that is all too common.
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thought provoking and inspiring ( faith_encore )
I have to say I really enjoyed this book. --Though you have to take his advice with a grain of salt. In the book, he describes the ideal way to live... It doesn't mean that all of us are equipped to live this way. For instance, he says to donate your clothes and buy a whole new wardrobe every year. As wonderful as that would be, I can't afford to do that.
He describes his idea of a perfect world, and wants us to strive for the same world. It doesn't mean we are there right now. But the simple changes that he suggests we make can get us one step closer to a better society.
I loved the book and would like to read his others soon.
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