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Interview with Wenzhi Liu |
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Editor Frank Scott (FS) from DesignPRWire has interviewed designer Wenzhi Liu (WL) for A’ Design Award and Competition. You can access the full profile of Wenzhi Liu 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?
WL: I like painting since childhood, later admitted to arts, then start reading architecture, greatly influenced by Chinese garden and the Chinese landscape painting now. I want to engaged in the design to the end of your life.
FS: Can you tell us more about your company / design studio?
WL: I work in the set up his own company in 2015 after 18 years, the design of a small team, in the direction of the academic research combined with the practice.
FS: What is "design" for you?
WL: Design is about different things, in certain conditions or restrictions which side of the cultural and artistic expression.
FS: What kinds of works do you like designing most?
WL: Now way of working is what I like, and study and practice, understand the world know yourself.
FS: What is your most favorite design, could you please tell more about it?
WL: Used to like modernism, such as Ann TengZhongXiong, was later, carol. Scarpa and Louis kahn, now the main research direction for Chinese classical garden and landscape painting. This is from homogeneous space to how to break down. The way to the Chinese Yin and Yang as the core. Also from the divine memorial to the human body experience. So our work is given priority to with experience, and rendering of this photo is not comprehensive enough. Pursuit is picturesque beauty before, now is invited to the painting. This is not the same.
FS: What was the first thing you designed for a company?
WL: That is 22 years, is my sister's house.
FS: What is your favorite material / platform / technology?
WL: Wood and the rough stone, this is very natural. The platform is a garden. Because is the natural and artificial.
FS: When do you feel the most creative?
WL: The first is from the technique of carlo scarpa, second from the garden of the study, make me feel very creative. Because hard homogeneous space let a person can only feel the geometry, the geometrical relationship with people is not big, but now is popular, it is need to reflect on.
FS: Which aspects of a design do you focus more during designing?
WL: Culture and philosophy
FS: What kind of emotions do you feel when you design?
WL: Curiosity and meditation
FS: What kind of emotions do you feel when your designs are realized?
WL: I can only in the most commercial space to achieve my understanding of the culture. Constant exploration and practice, and different stages of implementation. There is no end.
FS: What makes a design successful?
WL: Understand and agree that, regardless of the users, designers or the builders.
FS: When judging a design as good or bad, which aspects do you consider first?
WL: When a project can give a person really content to be presented by the designer, a good content at the same time, there are levels of content. That's a classic. Rather than just looking at very beautiful.
FS: From your point of view, what are the responsibilities of a designer for society and environment?
WL: Designer on the concept of social responsibility is to pass the works and to lead the masses in the right direction, not itself understood shallow blindly following readers also wrong. Divided into human and the natural environment is a designer in the business scope and responsibility.
FS: How do you think the "design field" is evolving? What is the future of design?
WL: This is designed to develop, and the transition from god to people. The contemporary focus on "people-oriented" not with geometry to populate the pale. Experience is important, to express the design of the "time" is a good design, and modern deviate too much design, not only visual, heavy experience will change in the future, when accumulated to a certain extent.
FS: When was your last exhibition and where was it? And when do you want to hold your next exhibition?
WL: Main show on the Internet, every year.
FS: Where does the design inspiration for your works come from? How do you feed your creativity? What are your sources of inspirations?
WL: Knowledge gained from books and the nature. By constantly reflect on their books, suzhou garden and landscape painting is expressing the nature, experience and views of choose and employ persons to express, so is the natural and artificial. This is an eternal theme. Only with a better understanding of the constantly progress, this is linear.
FS: How would you describe your design style? What made you explore more this style and what are the main characteristics of your style? What's your approach to design?
WL: My style is contemporary Chinese style style. Because through the study found that most of today's design with a shell and is divided into two express direction, one is a square, a deformed ellipse. Is the pursuit of visual, expression form and see the nature. The feelings of people is not respected. Life and time can't see. So I looked in the Chinese classical garden and landscape painting, twists and turns and changes of multilayer space is my characteristic, composition and node on the expression of Yin and Yang, and willing to get lost in space, let time to forget, to express life with time!
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?
WL: I come from guangzhou, China, I love the Chinese culture.
FS: How do you work with companies?
WL: Every project I create, including document and design specification, and then made by assistant to assist the computer.
FS: What are your suggestions to companies for working with a designer? How can companies select a good designer?
WL: All work must have the same idea and direction. To work with, so we often open society, to cultivate designers.
FS: Can you talk a little about your design process?
WL: Project must, for the first time to find a topic, a deep understanding of pressed repeatedly, then present the answer in the design.
FS: What are 5 of your favorite design items at home?
WL: My favorite is always the next project.
FS: Can you describe a day in your life?
WL: In job creation, communication, reading. And then sometimes can do home like dinner, or a week can go to a place to travel.
FS: Could you please share some pearls of wisdom for young designers? What are your suggestions to young, up and coming designers?
WL: Young designers should read more theory, determine good or bad. Find yourself.
FS: From your perspective, what would you say are some positives and negatives of being a designer?
WL: Positive is the correct reading can let her own ascension, and ascension is rewarding. This is certain. The negative is very few people do, the society is so impetuous.
FS: What is your "golden rule" in design?
WL: Yin and Yang
FS: What skills are most important for a designer?
WL: Understanding ability
FS: Which tools do you use during design? What is inside your toolbox? Such as software, application, hardware, books, sources of inspiration etc.?
WL: Cad, 3 d Max, sketchup software, etc. I don't understand the computer. Books and Peking University mainly by the Chinese academy of architecture articles.
FS: Designing can sometimes be a really time consuming task, how do you manage your time?
WL: How much depends on the project to party a on time, sometimes very few, but it doesn't matter, can normally three months to complete a small project. I through the sketchup software to manage the project.
FS: How long does it take to design an object from beginning to end?
WL: Normally for three months, there are also have a month and a half a year.
FS: What is the most frequently asked question to you, as a designer?
WL: The level of the construction unit and time. The rent is expensive because the project time.
FS: What was your most important job experience?
WL: Reading and analysis.
FS: Who are some of your clients?
WL: Young customers give priority to, they pursue fashion and culture
FS: What type of design work do you enjoy the most and why?
WL: With Chinese style is given priority to clubs and restaurants, is because I like the style and experience, and high-end.
FS: What are your future plans? What is next for you?
WL: All the way to study, not a destination.
FS: Do you work as a team, or do you develop your designs yourself?
WL: Main creation all is me, all the design details of almost all is me.
FS: Do you have any works-in-progress being designed that you would like to talk about?
WL: On the understanding of the landscape, many a mickle makes a muckle.
FS: How can people contact you?
WL: Through project let customers actively looking for me, they contact information can be found on the Internet.
FS: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?
WL: Some personal opinions, the first: the selection on only five picture can't express, comprehensive advice at least 8-10 picture. One should have the floor plan. Second: some winning projects I've been to, photo is very beautiful, but the actual experience is not good. If so will become the standard for visual at the same time there is illusion, how do I avoid. Third: I hope judge pay attention to the essence of design is given priority to, the direction of the visual is complementary, this is very important.
FS: Thank you for providing us with this opportunity to interview you.
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