Deconstructing Product Design

Dish Soap Bottle

Karim Rashid for Method, 2002

1. Hidden beneath a sink in most kitchens is a bottle of dish soap — except, that is, for those kitchens with the Method dish soap bottle designed by Karim Rashid, where the dish soap sits proudly atop the sink to be seen and appreciated. The design stems from what Rashid calls democratic design, a philosophy based on the belief that design should be available to the masses. And where better to apply this philosophy than the kitchen? Karim Rashid comments: “It’s the project I [had] been waiting for all my life … It was a chance to put a piece of sculpture on every American’s sink.”
2. The form is organic and bloblike, exemplifying a greater design movement that will no doubt one day be referred to ...