We, as the Designer Interviews ("DI") had the distinct pleasure and opportunity to interview award-winning, most creative and innovative Ian Hughes ("IH").
Ian Hughes is an award-winning designer that helps make the World a better place with their original and innovative creations and advanced design works.
Ian Hughes Designs
We are pleased to share with you original and innovative design work by Ian Hughes.
Designer Interview of Ian Hughes:
DI: 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?
IH : What made me decided to become a designer was after several semesters of taking a ceramics class. I really enjoyed creating something out of nothing and working clay really pointed that out to me. It wasn't until after a conversation with my ceramics teacher, that I decided to pursue a degree in Industrial Design.
DI: What is "design" for you?
IH : Design is everything, it is a way of life.
DI: What is your favorite material / platform / technology?
IH : I do a lot of sketching and computer work. I use and enjoy the Adobe Suite(photoshop, illustrator, indesign) and for CAD I use Rhinoceros 3D
DI: When do you feel the most creative?
IH : I am kind of a night owl and work in the late hours of the evening. It is when I get most of my work done.
DI: Which aspects of a design do you focus more during designing?
IH : It is hard to say. I usually do a large amount of sketching to find a general direction or idea. Then refine, refine, refine until I have a solid enough idea of what it will look like and then bring into a CAD program. But that is suggesting that all of that goes to plan, which sometimes is not the case.
DI: What makes a design successful?
IH : I think that a design is successful when it looks as though it hasn't been designed at all. When there has been so much thought involved in creating it, that when someone sees it for the first time can't find anything wrong with it.
DI: When judging a design as good or bad, which aspects do you consider first?
IH : What is its use and how does one us it.
DI: How can people contact you?
IH : Through email