Sounding like a superhero who has single-handedly saved Americans from bad design, (He designs hotels, board games and even fountain pens) Karim Rashid feels his greatest creation is himself, reports the Guardian. Karim Rashid lopes across the hotel lobby, extends a hand and starts talking. And boy, can he talk: Rashid, America's most successful designer, has the biggest mouth in the business. "I tell you, before I opened my practice in New York, design was almost a non-subject," he says, speaking at about 100 miles an hour and sounding like a superhero who has single-handedly saved Americans from bad design. "I've made it a popular subject. I've gone through every shopping mall in America and I've spoken to everybody. And I've produced a lot of things that are incredibly successful. So I have changed America to a certain extent." Now Rashid is aiming to do the same over here. He has just started working on his first UK projects - a hotel in Brighton and another at Paddington in London, both for the MyHotel boutique chain - and the way he tells it, they'll pretty much be the best hotels ever designed. read full guardian article