Botanist Blank Canvas Collaborators
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Orange 22 is proud to announce the collaborators for the Botanist Blank Canvas line. Each designer will create a new edition of Orange22’s indoor-outdoor, eco-friendly Botanist furniture.
Yves Behar
Margo Chase
Milton Glaser
Kahi Lee
Karim Rashid
Joe Ricchio
Massimo and Lella Vignelli
Claude Zellweger for One & Co.
Click on a collaborator to view their bio.
Yves Behar
Yves Behar is the founder of the San Francisco design studio, fuseproject. Yves is focused on humanistic design and the “giving” element of his profession, with the goal of creating projects that are deeply in-tune with the needs of a sustainable future, connected with human emotions and enable self-expression.
For Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization, fuseproject designed the world’s first $100 “XO” laptop aimed at bringing education and technology to the world’s poorest children. Yves’ commercial projects set out to be equally impactful as exemplified by the Herman Miller LEAF Lamp, the Aliph Jawbone and, most recently, Y Water.
Yves’ work has been the subject of two solo exhibitions and resides in the permanent collections of international museums worldwide, including MOMA and the Musee d’Art Moderne/Pompidou Center.
He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious National Design Award for Industrial Design celebrating design as a ‘vital humanistic tool shaping the world’—awarded by Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian National Design Museum. He has also received the INDEX: Design to Improve Life,
“Community” award for his role in creating the “XO” laptop.
In addition to his responsibilities at fuseproject, Yves acts as Chairperson of the Industrial Design program at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco and he has taken on creative, business-partner roles at Aliph Jawbone and other client-companies.
Margo Chase
Since founding Chase Design Group in 1986, Margo has consistently produced and led award-winning work in many areas of design. Recognized worldwide for her skill with custom typography and identity development, Margo is dedicated to creating client success through high-quality, intelligent creative.
Her vision provides the fuel for Chase Design Group’s growth and achievement. Margo has been widely recognized as a rare creative talent. Trained in biology, she discovered graphic design in graduate school and was quickly hooked.
Over the past 20 years, Margo’s landmark identity design has gained international recognition. Building on early successes in the music business designing packaging for artists Madonna, Cher, Prince, Bonnie Raitt and others, her studio’s dynamic, award winning style can now be seen in work for a long roster of prestigious clients including Procter and Gamble, AIG Sun America, Belkin, Cartoon Network, Chinese Laundry, Discovery Communications, Mattel, Nike, Reebok, Starbucks, Target, The WB Television Network, USA Networks, Virgin Records, and Warner Bros. Records.
In a recent Graphic Design USA reader’s poll, Margo was one of only two designers to make the top ten in both ‘Most Influential Graphic Designers of the Era’ and’ Most Influential Graphic Designers Today’. Chase Design Group also was voted in the top ten ‘Most Influential Design Firms of the Era’. Among numerous other awards, Chase was selected as one of I.D. Magazine’s ‘I.D. Forty’. Her work has been featured in countless design periodicals and books, including Communication Arts, Graphis, I.D., HOW, Radical Graphics/Graphic Radicals, and New Design: Los Angeles. She was recently featured in the celebrated show ‘Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference’ on exhibition in New York City.
She has taught the highest level typography classes at Art Center College of Design and California Institute of the Arts. Outside of the office, she loves to ski, travel and fly aerobatics.
Milton Glaser
Milton Glaser, an American designer, was born in New York City on June 26, 1929. He was educated at the High School of Music and Art, New York (1944-47); The Cooper Union Art School, New York (1948-51); and later, via a Fulbright Scholarship, the Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, Italy (1952-53). In 1954, he and a number of classmates founded Pushpin Studios. For twenty years Glaser, together with Seymour Chwast, directed the organization, which exerted a powerful influence on the direction of world graphic design, culminating in a memorable exhibition at the Louvres Museum of Decorative Arts.
In 1968, Glaser and Clay Felker founded New York Magazine, where he was president and design director until 1977. The publication became the model for city magazines, and stimulated a host of imitations. In 1983, Glaser teamed with Walter Bernard to form WBMG, a publication design firm also located in the city. Since its inception, WBMG has redesigned the following magazines: L’Espresso (Rome), Alma (Paris), Rizzoli’s Journal of Art, Magazine Week, The Washington Post, La Vanguardia (Barcelona), Manhattan, Inc., Family Circle, Adweek, U.S. News, The New York Law Journal, Fortune, Barron’s, Lire, The Village Voice, l’Expresso, Jardin des Modes, Modern Maturity, Money and The Nation, as well as numerous others.
Milton Glaser, Inc. was established in 1974. The work produced at this Manhattan studio encompasses a wide range of design disciplines. In the area of print graphics, the studio produces identity programs for corporate and institutional marketing purposes — including logos, stationery, brochures, signage, and annual reports. In the field of environmental and interior design, the firm has conceptualized and site-supervised the fabrication of numerous products, exhibitions, interiors and exteriors of restaurants, shopping malls, supermarkets, hotels, and other retail and commercial environments. Glaser is also personally responsible for the design and illustration of more than 300 posters for clients in the areas of publishing, music, theater, film, institutional and civic enterprise, as well as those for commercial products and services.
Mr. Glaser’s graphic and architectural commissions include the I&heart;NY logo (which has been described as ‘the most frequently imitated logo design in human history’), commissioned by the state of New York, 1976; the design of a 600-foot mural for the New Federal Office Building in Indianapolis, 1974; the complete graphic and decorative programs for the restaurants in the World Trade Center, New York, as well as the design of the Observation Deck and Permanent Exhibition for the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, 1975. He has also designed a number of architectural projects including Sesame Place, a children’s educational play park in Pennsylvania, 1981-83. For a period of fifteen years, Milton Glaser was involved with the re-design of a principal American supermarket, The Grand Union Company, a project that included all the company architecture, interiors, and packaging. He was responsible for the interior design and concept for the 1987-88 Triennale di Milano International Exhibition in Milan, Italy, on the theme of ‘World Cities and the Future of the Metropolis’. In 1987, Mr. Glaser was responsible for the graphic program of the Rainbow Room complexes for the Rockefeller Center Management Corporation, New York. Also in 1987, he designed the World Health Organization’s International AIDS Symbol and poster. From 1986–1989, he was responsible for the graphic design, theming, and signage for Franklin Mills, a retail mall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and in 1988, he completed the exterior, interior, and all graphic elements of Trattoria dell’Arte, one of several New York restaurants he has designed. In 1990, Milton Glaser, Inc. was responsible for the overall conceptualization and interior design of New York Unearthed, a museum located in Manhattan’s South Street Seaport. In 1993, he designed the logo for Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, Angels in America. Milton Glaser Inc. created all of the graphic material for the Rubin Museum of Art, which opened in New York, autumn 2004.
Notably, he designed a seventeen-foot, copper gilded wall (Cloud Wall) at the entry that serves as a transition between the street and the museum. Milton Glaser is at present design consultant to Stony Brook University, Screaming Media, Schlumberger Ltd., Brooklyn Brewery and a number of other businesses.
In October 1999, Mr. Glaser’s illustrations of Dante’s Purgatorio were exhibited at the Nuages Gallery in Milan, Italy. A retrospective of Milton Glaser’s work sponsored by the Berilaqua Foundation opened in Venice during the 2000 Carnevale. The Cooper Hewitt Museum honored Milton Glaser with the 2004 National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Mr. Glaser’s new book on design, Art is Work, was published in November 2000. Two concurrent exhibitions were held at The American Institute of Graphic Arts and The Philadelphia Museum of Art. An unusual ABC book for children, The Alphazeds, created by Milton and his wife Shirley, debuted in 2003. The Design of Dissent with Mirko Ilic and The Big Race, with Shirley Glaser were released in 2005.
Kahi Lee
Kahi Lee has been called a Renaissance Chick and Interior Design Goddess. She currently hosts Design On A Dime one of HGTV’s most popular programs. Lee has appeared on numerous television series including Merge , Renovate My Family, Ultimate Gamer, FreeStyle, and My Celebrity Home. She has also made guest appearances on The Early Show on CBS, The Tyra Banks Show and Life and Style among others. Lee easily adapts to the tastes and attitudes of her wide-ranging audience and credits her demographic-defying designs, versatility and genuine passion for all things stylish for her television success. In just a few short years, Lee is fast becoming one of the most recognizable faces in lifestyle television programming.
Kahi Lee Lifestyle, a design firm specializing in high end residential and commercial interior design launched in 2005. Working in both the United States and Asia, Lee’s high profile clients include actors, rock stars and multi-million dollar luxury high-rise residential developments. Lee’s design style is very much reflective of her California lifestyle and upbringing. She draws on Los Angeles’ vast and varied cultural wealth for design inspiration. Lee loves the relaxed attitude of coastal living, the practical forms of California mid-century design, the rustic charm of Los Angeles’ Spanish heritage and of course the bold glamour and amusing eccentricities of Hollywood. Lee’s designs seamlessly blend and sometimes dramatically juxtapose her many sources of inspiration. Her talents and style sensibility have also been featured in USA Today, In Style, In Style Home, Seventeen, Extra TV and E! among others.
Art and design have been Lee’s passion since she was just a wee Lee. In fact, design is literally in her blood. Lee’s mother is a well-know interior designer and her sister is a New York-based event designer. Lee attended UCLA where she earned degrees in Art History and English Literature. Upon completing her undergraduate studies, she continued her studies at UCLA taking on coursework in both Interior Design and Print Journalism. Lee began her career at the renowned Christie’s Auction House where she landed a coveted position in the Contemporary Art department. She served as a MUSE advisory board member for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and has penned articles on the subject of art and art exhibition.
In addition to her design ventures, Lee has a background in fashion and entertainment journalism. She has written and reported for The Book LA, SOMA, Star Magazine and Stars Entertainment Media among others. Lee has interviewed celebrities, reviewed fashion trends and covered events like the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards. She continues to keep watch on the frontlines of fashion and entertainment ensuring that her readers and viewers are always up to speed on the most current lifestyle trends.
Kahi Lee was born in Washington DC and raised in Palos Verdes, California. She currently resides in Venice Beach, California with her husband, music executive Jason Bentley. In her spare time, Lee can be found cultivating her shoe collection, dancing the night away or in pursuit of the perfect mac n’ cheese.
Karim Rashid
Karim Rashid is a leading figure in the fields of product and interior design, furniture, lighting and art. Working with an impressive array of clients over the years including Alessi, Umbra, Prada, Issey Miyake, and Method, Karim has infused consumer culture with his signature Sensual Minimalism.
To date Karim has had some 2500 objects put into production. Successes such as the Dirt Devil Kone, Umbra Garbo, and Method Home designs illustrate Karim’s ethos of affordable, democratic design for the masses. Karim’s language has graced all aspects of life from furniture to cosmetics, artwork to architecture. His award winning interior work includes the Morimoto restaurant in Philadelphia and Semiramis hotel in Athens as well as many retail stores and restaurants world wide.
A perennial winner of the Chicago Athenaeum Good Design award, I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review and Red Dot Award, Karim was also honored early in his career with the prestigious Daimler Chrysler Design Award, and the Brooklyn Museum Young Designer of the Year Award. Recently he received the International Furnishings and Design Association Circle of Excellence Award for Industrial Design and Pratt Legend Award. His work is in the permanent collections of 15 Museums worldwide including MoMA and SFMoMA and he exhibits art in various galleries. Pulling from 10 years experience as an associate Professor of Industrial design at the Rhode Island School of Design and Pratt Institute, Karim is now a frequent guest lecturer at universities and conferences globally.
Karim has published his guide to living ‘Design Your Self’ from Regan Books, ‘Digipop’, a digital exploration of computer graphics (Taschen 2005), a portfolio book published by Chronicle Books (2004), as well as two monographs titled ‘Evolution’ (Universe, 2004) and ‘I Want to Change the World’ (Rizzoli, 2001). He edited the International Design Yearbook 18 for Calmann and King in 2003 and released two CD’s on boutique label, Neverstop.
Joe Ricchio
Joseph D. Ricchio Jr. was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1955. Since 1980 he has lived in Seal Beach, California with his wife Marla and his two sons, Aaron an aspiring graphic designer and Jacob a musician.
He is a 1980 graduate of California State University at Long Beach with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design. As a student of CSULB he was selected to be a participant in California State University International Programs in Florence, Italy. Along with 45 other students from the California State University system, he spent the 1976/77 school year studying Art, Design, Language and History while experiencing the warmth and richness of the Italian culture.
1979 through 1982 Joe Ricchio worked for Ron Loosen Associates designing various products for the high tech industry along with an assortment of graphic design projects. In 1982 Ricchio Design, located in Seal Beach, California, was established as a design consultancy working in a variety of design disciplines. Over the years Ricchio Design has done a multitude of projects in product design, furniture design and graphic design. Projects range from strategic product planning for Xerox Corporation to collateral pieces for Team Disney.
In the area of furniture design, Ricchio Design has focused on working with many of the major contract furniture manufacturers in the industry. Projects include such pieces as: ‘Stiletto’ for Stendig International, ‘Ricchio Chair’, ‘JR Chair’ and ‘Joe Chair’ for Knoll International, ‘Playback’ for ai/Vecta, ‘Duke’ for ICF, ‘Cortona Collection’ for HBF, ‘Mural’ for Steelcase Wood and accessories for Peter Pepper Products.
His work has appeared in magazines such as Contract, Interiors and Interior Design. In 1991 the ‘Ricchio Chair’ was the recipient of the Roscoe award. The ‘Playback’ received both the Product Design Award from IBD in 1992 and an award for Industrial Design Excellence from IDSA in 1993. In 1993 he also received the Best of Neocon Award for accessories for Peter Pepper Products. In September of 1999 he was an invited guest to ‘Promosedia Chair Exhibition’ in Udine, Italy where he served as a member of the Panel of Judges to choose the winning designs of ‘The Top Ten Awards.’
Joe Ricchio is a member of the part-time faculty of CSULB teaching Furniture Design. He is also a frequent guest critic and mentor to the students of CSULB. With the assistance of Professor Michael J. Kammermeyer in 2004 he established the ‘Cortona Design Retreat:’ an annual program to take selected design students interested in a career in furniture design to visit the Milan Furniture Fair and experience the Italian culture.
Massimo and Lella Vignelli
Lella
Lella Vignelli was born in Udine, Italy. She received a degree from the School of Architecture, University of Venice, and became a registered architect in Milan in 1962. In 1958, she received a tuition fellowship as a special student at the School of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
In 1959, Ms. Vignelli joined Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Chicago, as designer in the Interiors Department. The following year, with Massimo Vignelli, she established the Vignelli Office of Design and Architecture in Milan. In 1965, she became head of the Interiors Department for Unimark International Corporation in Milan and in New York (1966).
In 1971, the Vignellis established Vignelli Associates and seven years later, they formed Vignelli Designs, a company dedicated to product and furniture design, of which she is President.
Ms. Vignelli’s work is widely featured in design publications in the United States and abroad. Examples of her work have been included in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Montreal, and Die Neue Sammlung in Munich. The Vignellis’ work has been the subject of two feature-length television programs that have been televised worldwide. A monographic exhibition of the Vignellis’ work toured Europe between 1989 and 1993, and was featured in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Helsinki, London, Budapest, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Munich, Prague and Paris.
Lella Vignelli lectures in schools and Universities and is a frequent speaker and juror for national and international design organizations. Ms. Vignelli has been the recipient of many awards including the
American Institute of Architects (AIA) Industrial Arts Medal,1973; AIGA Gold Medal, 1983; Interior Design Hall of Fame, 1988; National Arts Club Gold Medal for Design, 1991; Interior Product Designers Fellowship of Excellence, 1992; The Brooklyn Museum Design Award for Lifetime Achievement, 1995; The Russel Wright Award for Design Excellence, 2001. In 2003 Lella and Massimo Vignelli received the National Design Lifetime Achievement Award, 2004 The Visionary Award, Museum of Art and Design, New York, and the 2005 Architectural Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
She is also the recipient of Honorary Doctorates from the Parsons School of Design, New York; the Corcoran School of Art, Washington D.C. and the President Medal of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.
Massimo
Massimo Vignelli, born in Milan, studied architecture in Milan and Venice. Prior to establishing the offices of Vignelli Associates in 1971, and Vignelli Designs in 1978, with Lella Vignelli, he and Lella Vignelli established the Vignelli Office of Design and Architecture in Milan in 1960, and in 1965, Massimo Vignelli became co-founder and design director of Unimark International Corporation. Massimo Vignelli is the co-founder and President of Vignelli Associates and Chief Executive Officer of Vignelli Designs in New York. His work includes graphic and corporate identity programs, publication designs, architectural graphics, and exhibition, interior, furniture, and consumer product designs for many leading American and European companies and institutions.
Mr. Vignelli’s work has been published and exhibited throughout the world and entered in the permanent collections of several museums; notably, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York; the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Montreal; and the Die Neue Sammlung in Munich. Mr. Vignelli has taught and lectured on design in the major cities and universities in the United States and abroad.
For the past ten years he has taught a summer course at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is a past president of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) and the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), and a vice president of The Architectural League. Two feature-length television programs on the Vignellis’ work have been aired worldwide. A monographic exhibition of the Vignellis’ work toured Europe between 1989 and 1993, and was featured in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Helsinki, London, Budapest, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Munich, Prague and Paris.
Among Massimo Vignelli’s many awards: Gran Premio Triennale di Milano, 1964; Compasso d’Oro, awarded by the Italian Association for Industrial Design (ADI), 1964 and again in 1998; the 1973 Industrial Arts Medal of the American Institute of Architects (AIA); the 1982 Art Directors Club Hall of Fame; the 1983 AIGA Gold Medal; the first Presidential Design Award, presented by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, for the National Park Service Publications Program; the 1988 Interior Design Hall of Fame; the 1991 National Arts Club Gold Medal for Design; the 1992 Interior Product Designers Fellowship of Excellence; The 1995 Brooklyn Museum Design Award for Lifetime Achievement; and The 2001 Russel Wright Award for Design Excellence. He has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Architecture from the University of Venice, Italy and Honorary Doctorates in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, New York, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, the Corcoran School of Art, Washington D.C, and the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, and the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. In 1996 he received the Honorary Royal Designer for Industry Award from the Royal Society of Arts, London. In 2003 Lella and Massimo Vignelli received the National Design Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004 the Visionary Award from the Museum of Art and Design, New York and the 2005 Architectural Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Claude Zellweger for One & Co.
Claude Zellweger, principal and design director at One & Co, is an industrial designer who practices design across a wide array of disciplines in the furniture, sports and technology world.
Zellweger, who was born in Luzern, Switzerland, sees the role of designer as that of creating for people’s known and unknown needs. Designers – he believes - have to anticipate the new and increasingly sophisticated fictional architecture of our desires. Zellweger also believes that by making the complex simple and likeable, the designer is able to provide relief for tension.
Zellweger’s point of view developed after he graduated from Art Center College of Design, California in 1997 and spent several years working for well-known Silicon Valley firm Pentagram Design, where he designed products for clients such as Motorola, AT&T, Polaroid. His most visible effort of that period was the 2002 Latitude design language for Dell, the world’s most sold notebook line to date.
In 2001, Zellweger joined San Francisco’s One & Co as a partner and creative director. During this time, One & Co’s work in the sporting goods industry – with partner like Burton, Fila and Nike – received recognition and caught the attention of the tech industry. In recent years, Claude Zellweger has helped to grow the firm to become one of the Bay Area’s dominant young design forces. Today, companies such as Kodak, Microsoft, Kensington and Sony are calling on Zellweger to envision and lead the development of their brand and design. Zellweger’s recent furniture design for Council has been called ‘ a much needed infusion for the West Coast to the international furniture world’.
Claude’s work has been internationally recognized in museums and competitions alike, including awards from , ID Magazine, IDSA, BusinessWeek, IF Industrie Hannover and the Chicago Athenaeum Award. Claude is also a regular lecturer and member of design awards committees.
