He's Mr. Blobject

A couple of swell interviews here with justly-famed

designer Karim Rashid. These exchanges nicely reflect the

guy's tensile, off-the-wall take on life.

Icon Magazine U.K.

Your book is called "I Want to Change the World." How do you want to change it, and why?

You know, from the moment I wake up, and I'm lying on a bed that has a stupid headboard - which no one's ever figured out yet - and I get up and go to the bathroom, and I look at the fucking counter, and the way the sink is styled and the knobs, and then I have to brush my teeth and I have to go through all the banalities of life, and I think to myself we're living in a world where people design for us, and we just accept it.

Design Boom in Milano

where I would like to live.

everywhere at the same time

the colour I prefer.

white.

the flower I love.

cactus.

the bird I prefer.

I don't like nature