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Eyelash Stand Makeup Assistant by Naai-Jung Shih |
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FS: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
NS: The inspiration of this project came from an attempt to symbolize the metaphor of makeup from the viewpoint of behavior, product, and the geometry.
FS: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
NS: This design is to discover and explore a metaphor of eyelash, as considering eyelashing is a pursuit for a personal expectation
FS: What are your future plans for this award winning design?
NS: Promote it, sell it, and share the concept with people
FS: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?
NS: This project started from June 2014.
FS: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?
NS: This is a pursuit of an inspiration.
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?
NS: It’s not being produced or used by another company. I plan to sell or lease the production rights or to produce my work by myself.
FS: What made you design this particular type of work?
NS: The stand represents a reminiscent commitment in the morning or before going to bed, by setting eyelashes temporarily before or after they are applied.
FS: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?
NS: no
FS: Who is the target customer for his design?
NS: People adore eyelashes and life.
FS: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?
NS: It’s the way to memorize what something trivial has contributed to daily experience or personal adventure.
FS: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?
NS: It’s straightforward for what it is.
FS: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?
NS: Rapid-Prototyping (RP) technology and parametric design software
FS: What is the most unique aspect of your design?
NS: Redefining a behavior and making a metaphor real
FS: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?
NS: Paint credit: Kangming Fei
FS: What is the role of technology in this particular design?
NS: It’s very crucial in controlling design quality and explore design possibilities.
FS: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?
NS: The research work for this project has three-fold: the behavior, the product, and the geometry.
FS: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?
NS: Human eye(s) is a very compact interactive system. How to represent the layers of expressions and the complexity of implications becomes the main challenge to the message that the final shape reveals.
FS: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?
NS: I think it’s time to meet people, to introduce myself, and discuss concept with people.
FS: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?
NS: The preliminary jury did help.
FS: Thank you for providing us with this opportunity to interview you.
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