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Interview with Chung-Yuan Kuo |
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Editor Frank Scott (FS) from DesignPRWire has interviewed designer Chung-Yuan Kuo (CK) for A’ Design Award and Competition. You can access the full profile of Chung-Yuan Kuo 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?
CK: I never stop learning graphic & visual strategies. I love to appreciate the design result for every work. I have wanted to be a designer until my creativities are not found.
FS: Can you tell us more about your company / design studio?
CK: My design studio is called "Midroom Lab". I hope that the company's role is always "in the middle of" every design cases and our clients.
FS: What is "design" for you?
CK: Design is a visual solution.
FS: What kinds of works do you like designing most?
CK: Package systems, Logo identity, and to be an exhibition curator.
FS: What is your most favorite design, could you please tell more about it?
CK: Package design. I enjoy that customers could get surprised when they see the package and open it.
FS: What was the first thing you designed for a company?
CK: Taiwanese tea package.
FS: What is your favorite material / platform / technology?
CK: Wood or bamboo package for showing Taiwanese characteristic.
FS: When do you feel the most creative?
CK: When sharing my design opinion with my colleagues.
FS: Which aspects of a design do you focus more during designing?
CK: Good visual skill with touched idea.
FS: What kind of emotions do you feel when you design?
CK: Pleased and excited.
FS: What kind of emotions do you feel when your designs are realized?
CK: Feel confident.
FS: What makes a design successful?
CK: Revised the design work constantly before announcement.
FS: When judging a design as good or bad, which aspects do you consider first?
CK: The audiences' voice.
FS: From your point of view, what are the responsibilities of a designer for society and environment?
CK: Reuse package material.
FS: How do you think the "design field" is evolving? What is the future of design?
CK: "Design field" and "future of design" include every living goods when your open your eyes every day.
FS: When was your last exhibition and where was it? And when do you want to hold your next exhibition?
CK: I held the exhibition in December last year in Taiwan. I hope I will hold the exhibition in the summer this year.
FS: Where does the design inspiration for your works come from? How do you feed your creativity? What are your sources of inspirations?
CK: See and feel when traveling.
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?
CK: We always to make design works that could be broken through the last work.
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?
CK: Taiwan is a small country where is proceeding to make world known via design.
FS: How do you work with companies?
CK: Discussion with each other, not only professional design process but also hobbies.
FS: What are your suggestions to companies for working with a designer? How can companies select a good designer?
CK: Design is a hard way to do it fast. A good designer must face to all kinds of difficult design cases.
FS: Can you talk a little about your design process?
CK: Make a main design strategy, find out key visual words, draw the sketches, and do them constantly until forming a perfect work.
FS: What are 5 of your favorite design items at home?
CK: 1. To know about every design news in the world. 2. Play with my cat. 3. Play video game. 4. Clean my vintage toys. 5. Sit on my favorite chair.
FS: Can you describe a day in your life?
CK: Work with my colleague or teach students of the related design major.
FS: Could you please share some pearls of wisdom for young designers? What are your suggestions to young, up and coming designers?
CK: Never stop learning and being curious.
FS: From your perspective, what would you say are some positives and negatives of being a designer?
CK: To live in different modes very day but you have to burn your brain constantly.
FS: What is your "golden rule" in design?
CK: There is no shortcut to success.
FS: What skills are most important for a designer?
CK: Draw the sketches every day.
FS: Which tools do you use during design? What is inside your toolbox? Such as software, application, hardware, books, sources of inspiration etc.?
CK: Every toy from different countries! I am not good at drawing software in pc. I love to use "COPIC" to record my design idea.
FS: Designing can sometimes be a really time consuming task, how do you manage your time?
CK: Sleep early and spend a lot of time to set my dress and hair in the morning. And then go working with a passion.
FS: How long does it take to design an object from beginning to end?
CK: I think half year (six months) is a suitable duration to complete a design case.
FS: What is the most frequently asked question to you, as a designer?
CK: How can you break through your work every time?
FS: What was your most important job experience?
CK: Clients can focus on my opinion for their products.
FS: Who are some of your clients?
CK: Most of them are small and medium-sized enterprises in Taiwan.
FS: What type of design work do you enjoy the most and why?
CK: New product packaging is just like a baby who is born from us and clients.
FS: What are your future plans? What is next for you?
CK: To break through my last work.
FS: Do you work as a team, or do you develop your designs yourself?
CK: I work with my colleague and create all kinds of ideas from each other.
FS: Do you have any works-in-progress being designed that you would like to talk about?
CK: To redesign some of branding case for public institutions.
FS: How can people contact you?
CK: Please go onto the website: https://midroomlab.com/
FS: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?
CK: Taiwan is my country where is full of design energies.
FS: Thank you for providing us with this opportunity to interview you.
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