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.

Karim Rashid is an industrial designer whose clients include Prada,Mambe,Issey Miyake,Umbra and Alessi,among many others.With a career that began at age nineteen,Rashid is now the creator of more than two thousand designs,many of them awawd-winning.His commercial success has been mirrored by critical acclaim; his works are in the permanent collections of fourteen museums worldwide, including MoMA and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2005 Karim was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Corcoran College of Art & Design in Washington, D.C. Karim lives in New York City with his wife, the artist Megan Lang.