
Rama’s Contributions
Rama Chorpash Design focuses on how divergent cultures can celebrate existence through design. Through his New York atelier, Rama designs benchmark products, electronics, packaging, environments and furniture. Work ranges from consultancy, entrepreneurship to objects of provocation. Projects are done just a few at a time, thus employ a high level of personal dedication.
Rama has had a studio in São Paulo Brazil focusing on product development in Latin America. He has been a Senior Project Manager/Designer with ECCO Design, helped found the Swatch Lab New York as well as worked for DM9 / DDB Brazil. He has designed for: Herman Miller, Cisneros Group, Carlos Miele, Hewlett Packard, and Colgate.
Rama’s work has been shown in Central Park in collaboration with ‘assue vivid astro focus’ for the 2004 New York Public Art Fund and Whitney Biennial. His works have also been exhibited in the Bienal da Prata in Portugal with Frank O Ghery, Alvaro Siza and the Campana brothers, TKNY, as well as the Museum of Modern Art show, ‘Workspheres: Design and Contemporary Work Styles’.
Rama received his BFA from the California College of Art (CCA) in 1993. He is an assistant professor at the University of the Arts as well as an outside critic and lecturer.