A method of designing and fabricating an orthopedic knee implant for a patient of particular ethnicity, the method comprising: obtaining a patient model of a bone component of the knee of the patient, the bone component comprising one or more articulating surfaces; consulting an atlas of images of corresponding bones of the particular ethnicity to extract common shape features exhibited across an ethnicity that are unique to the ethnicity to create a number of ethnic specific templates having a range of sizes, said range of sizes of the ethnic specific bone templates corresponding to 90% of said corresponding bones of the particular ethnicity; comparing said patient model to said ethnic specific bone templates and determining whether said patient model fits within said range of sizes of said ethnic specific bone templates; and fabricating a patient specific implant using the ethnic specific templates, by the following steps: identifying landmarks on the patient model corresponding to said common shape features exhibited across said ethnicity, and using said identified landmarks on the patient model to form a patient-specific implant box corresponding to an inner surface of the implant adapted to contact the patient's resected bone; using an arc analysis to identify and map contours of medial and lateral profiles of the articulating surfaces on the patient model, and parameterizing said medial and lateral profiles to generate patient-specific articulating surfaces of the implant; combining the patient-specific implant box and the patient specific articulating surfaces of the implant to form a model of the patient-specific implant; and, fabricating the orthopaedic knee implant according to the patient-specific implant model. obtaining a patient model of a bone component of the knee of the patient, the bone component comprising one or more articulating surfaces; consulting an atlas of images of corresponding bones of the particular ethnicity to extract common shape features exhibited across an ethnicity that are unique to the ethnicity to create a number of ethnic specific templates having a range of sizes, said range of sizes of the ethnic specific bone templates corresponding to 90% of said corresponding bones of the particular ethnicity; comparing said patient model to said ethnic specific bone templates and determining whether said patient model fits within said range of sizes of said ethnic specific bone templates; and fabricating a patient specific implant using the ethnic specific templates, by the following steps: identifying landmarks on the patient model corresponding to said common shape features exhibited across said ethnicity, and using said identified landmarks on the patient model to form a patient-specific implant box corresponding to an inner surface of the implant adapted to contact the patient's resected bone; using an arc analysis to identify and map contours of medial and lateral profiles of the articulating surfaces on the patient model, and parameterizing said medial and lateral profiles to generate patient-specific articulating surfaces of the implant; combining the patient-specific implant box and the patient specific articulating surfaces of the implant to form a model of the patient-specific implant; and, fabricating the orthopaedic knee implant according to the patient-specific implant model. identifying landmarks on the patient model corresponding to said common shape features exhibited across said ethnicity, and using said identified landmarks on the patient model to form a patient-specific implant box corresponding to an inner surface of the implant adapted to contact the patient's resected bone; using an arc analysis to identify and map contours of medial and lateral profiles of the articulating surfaces on the patient model, and parameterizing said medial and lateral profiles to generate patient-specific articulating surfaces of the implant; combining the patient-specific implant box and the patient specific articulating surfaces of the implant to form a model of the patient-specific implant; and, fabricating the orthopaedic knee implant according to the patient-specific implant model.