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Interview with Viktor Bilak |
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Editor Frank Scott (FS) from DesignPRWire has interviewed designer Viktor Bilak (VB) for A’ Design Award and Competition. You can access the full profile of Viktor Bilak by clicking here.
FS: Could you please tell us more about your art and design background? What made you become an artist/designer? Have you always wanted to be a designer?
VB: From childhood, I wanted to draw. When I was 5 years old, I saw the picture of fairy tale: animals were in doll’s theatre. It was so bright, colorful and magically that I wanted draw the copy of this picture and made them a lot. When I was 9 years old I went to the art school, 14 – I went to the art college and finished it 19 years old, 21 – 27 years old I studied arts in faculty of design in Stroganov’s Moscow State Art Industrial University.
FS: Can you tell us more about your company / design studio?
VB: I founded the design-bureau EXPOLEVEL in 2003 to provide highly professional approach for the design and realization of exhibition stands and public interiors. The main goal - to reflect in design the unique of company. Creative potential allows suggesting conceptual projects based on an artistic image.
FS: What is "design" for you?
VB: Design for me is constant searching of something new.
FS: What is your most favorite design, could you please tell more about it?
VB: The most favorite design for me is the Rubik’s Cube - the dynamical 3D object that to force you think “by the fingers”. This skill is very important for artist, painter and architect.
FS: When do you feel the most creative?
VB: I feel myself the most creative in the night when the cares of the day are over and I can just concentrate on the artistic task.
FS: What kind of emotions do you feel when you design?
VB: At the beginning of the creative project, I start to see the contradictions and feel the interest to decide them.
FS: What kind of emotions do you feel when your designs are realized?
VB: When my designs are realized, I feel creative enthusiasm and I want to improve my project or to change it and I feel enough power for it.
FS: What makes a design successful?
VB: I think that the design will be successful if it is aesthetic, comfortable and have good promotion.
FS: Where do you live? Do you feel the cultural heritage of your country affects your designs? What are the pros and cons during designing as a result of living in your country?
VB: I was born in USSR and the art of Soviet avant-garde influences on my designs. I got classical art education in Russia so the traditions of the Russian school of painting is very important for me.
FS: What skills are most important for a designer?
VB: The most important skills for a designer from my point of view are the skills from classical artistic education: art composition, drawing, painting, sculpture.
FS: How can people contact you?
VB: victor@expolevel.ru
FS: Thank you for providing us with this opportunity to interview you.
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