Khodi Feiz
Industrial designer Khodi Feiz was born in Iran and grew up in the United States. He graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in industrial design and began his impressive career at Texas Instruments Design Center.
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“For our projects we use technology very heavily, yet all initial ideas are designed on paper. This has not changed for me. I still love the feeling of pen on paper.”
In 1990, he moved to the Netherlands to work for Philips Design. In 1998, he teamed with graphic designer Anneko Feiz-van Dorssen and founded Feiz Design Studio. They specialize in product, furniture, graphic, and strategic design for companies such as Alessi, Artifort, Herman Miller, Nike, and Nokia. Feiz’s work has earned numerous awards and been featured in exhibitions and publications worldwide. He has lectured at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
Clarity, concept, and context are the summation of Feiz’s design philosophy. He says the simpler the project, the more challenging it becomes. "You don’t have the guise of complication to hide behind.” He believes that the concept gives meaning to an object. Lastly, Feiz says that when you focus on the context that creates the object—rather than the object itself—it can lead to new and surprising results.
