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Designer Karim Rashid is CNN Style's second guest editor. He's commissioning a series of features that explore the theme of "Design in the Digital Age" to be published throughout September. Here, he explains some of the thoughts behind his chosen subject. Many famous architects names proposed as CNN's next editors last month that we have covered it our July daily news, and Karim Rashid was selected CNN Style's second guest editor. Daniel Libeskind was the first editor of CNN Style.

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In CNN's second style Karim Rashid evaluate design in the digital age from, 3D printing, technological revolutions, techno-organic-objects to digital vernacular as he said to CNN. ''When I adorn an object or space, I work to contemporize it, make it speak of the now, the digital. The recent wallpaper collection I designed for Marburg, called Globalove, is an example of this language, characterized by filigree silver netting on psychedelic graphics or on dark backgrounds, in a dynamic color spectrum. It is my way of documenting the period in which we live'' explains Karim Rashid.  

Rashid adds that ''3D printing is a method we use often at my studio. Using CAD programs and our in-house 3D printer, a prototype is available instantly. Thought becomes form.  To realize and shape an object in 3D space allows me to experience and interact with a product and revise as needed. It is indicative of the rapid prototyping across the design industry. An object is created in the moment, and its evolutionary process is guided seamlessly.''

The Bobble bottle by Karim Rashid, image courtesy of Karim Rashid

''Design must evolve us — and create a beautification and betterment for society. The future shapes will be inspired by each product's subject matter and an intention to make form as sensual, as human, as evocative, and as sculptural as possible. We will see new forms that have never existed.'' added Rashid.

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