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Alan Jay Heller dies at 81
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Art Gensler, architect, businessman, and founder of the largest architecture firm in the world has passed away
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Jamie Case Joins Ware Malcomb in Atlanta as Director, Interior Architecture and Design
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Spirited as ever. On the occasion of Vico Magistretti’s 100th birthday.
Vico Magistretti would have turned 100 on October 6: Reason enough for the global design community to celebrate.
Steelcase Announces Appointment of Linda Williams to Board of Directors
Linda Williams has been appointed to Steelcase’s Board of Directors. Williams currently serves as the Chief Audit Executive and Vice President of Enterprise Risk Management of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a global provider of technology solutions and services spanning edge to cloud.
Terence Conran, Designer and Retail Magnate, Is Dead at 88
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Remembering Cini Boeri
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Ford’s Jim Hackett is out as CEO
Ford Motor CEO and President, and former Steelcase CEO, Jim Hackett will unexpectedly retire. University of Michigan fans applaud.
My New Normal: Gensler Co-CEO Andy Cohen
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"Design pervert" Karim Rashid wins 2020 American Prize for Design
New York designer Karim Rashid has won this year's American Prize for Design, which is regarded as "the highest and most prestigious design award in the United States".
The New York designer was named the 2020 laureate of the accolade awarded annually by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
Rashid, whose best-known works include the Snoop and Woopy chair and the Bobble water flask, describes himself as a "design pervert, cultural shaper, poet of plastic, digipop rockstar".
"Design is my lifelong hobby," Rashid said. "Design is something that can be so emotional, so experiential, so romantic, so poetic, and so human and yet constantly moves us forward."
He intends to champions "democratic design", a term he uses to describe making good design available for all, through projects focused on unnoticed or overlooked items.
Pans with colourful handles, a faceted glass bottle for American vodka brand Anestasia, a "deconstructed" wine bottle and a smartphone charger are among his creations.
"We must evolve, we must innovate, and we must change," the designer added. "I want to change the physical world."
In addition to 3,000 objects, Rashid's portfolio also includes fashion, exhibitions, interiors and architecture projects, completing a sex shop in Munich, the University of Naples subway station and a restaurant in Dubai.
The Chicago Athenaeum's president Christian Narkiewicz-Laine commended Rashid for his "dizzying array of projects going all over the globe". "What stands out is that the man is driven. Scratch that. Hyper-driven," Narkiewicz-Laine added.
"Entering the mad design world of Rashid is like being trapped inside a gigantic, rotating kaleidoscope, where the turning and twisting of bits of coloured materials between two flat plates against two plane mirrors produce an endless variety of crazed patterns and dizzying possibilities," he said.
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Robert Cadwallader, Former Knoll President, Passes Away
A Texas native and graduate of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Cadwallader joined Knoll following a chance encounter with Florence Knoll at a campus event.