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Arctic Coffee Table by Wai Ho Cheung |
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FS: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
WC: The form is inspired by tidal wave. In the meantime, the functionality is inspired by park bench slats.
FS: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
WC: The main focus was to improve the first version I did and turn it into more commercial. Therefore, my aim was to design a unique coffee table with material and production process as cheap as possible.
FS: What are your future plans for this award winning design?
WC: I will try to sell the design to a furniture company.
FS: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?
WC: I took around a week to design the first version, as the first version was for publishing related to Fuorisalone 2016, Milan. Then I redesigned and finished the current version in a week after the event, which took around a month for the whole design process discretely.
FS: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?
WC: I wanted to apply for the selection of a catalogue, Design for 2016 with new designs. Therefore, I created the first version, Wave ( (Please visit http://waihocheung.wixsite.com/waihocheung/wave for detail regarding the design). Afterwards, I wanted to develop the previous one into a more commercial way. Thus, Arctic was designed.
FS: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?
WC: It has not been produced or used by any company yet, only a prototype was produced by myself. However, I would like to sell the production rights to a furniture company.
FS: What made you design this particular type of work?
WC: I am highly committed to developing a career in furniture design. Therefore, I always develop self-directed projects to fulfil my desire and to put my design concept and philosophy into practice.
FS: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?
WC: Unfortunately, there was no other designer got influence.
FS: Who is the target customer for his design?
WC: The target customers would be people who love furniture in simple and contemporary style.
FS: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?
WC: I would say the simple and economy production process, under-estimated functionality and unique outlook with the dynamic waves are the factors set apart this coffee table from others.
FS: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?
WC: The current version was called Uphill originally. However, I thought the waves underneath looked like currents in ocean more than hills. Besides, in Chinese Five Elements, the corresponding colour and direction to Water element are black and north. Therefore, I renamed it as the largest ocean in the north, Arctic.
FS: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?
WC: I used pencils, AutoCAD, 3ds Max, my brain and my heart.
FS: What is the most unique aspect of your design?
WC: Certainly, it would be the dynamic waves underneath which can generate a visual illusion that the still table appears as moving.
FS: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?
WC: From idea development to building up CAD model, I worked on my own at each stage and I appreciate Mr. Ip’s assist by giving technical advice.
FS: What is the role of technology in this particular design?
WC: I would say that technology will be only involved during the production. This design does not contain any high technology.
FS: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?
WC: My design is not exactly influenced by any analytical research, just my limited knowledge of science and knowledge of I Ching (易經).
FS: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?
WC: The first version was designed with 3 types of materials, so the challenge was to reduce the types of material used, at the same time to keep the dynamic outlook and to emphasise it.
FS: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?
WC: I met a Dutch designer who won the gold award at A' Design and he recommended me to apply for it.
FS: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?
WC: The first version was an asymmetric design with one end opened; now Arctic is a combination with symmetric and asymmetric design elements, depends on the point of view.
FS: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?
WC: It is a complete questionnaire. For more information, please feel free to request an interview.
FS: Thank you for providing us with this opportunity to interview you.
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