We, as the Designer Interviews ("DI") had the distinct pleasure and opportunity to interview award-winning, most creative and innovative Baohua Xie ("BX").
Baohua Xie is a graphic designer who like painting and making friends. And also he has its own design studio. In 2002, he designed the emblem of 9th Sichuan Provincial Games. In 2016, he designed the brand image of TFBoys, and also participated in the brand image design of OPPO.
Baohua Xie Designs
We are pleased to share with you original and innovative design work by Baohua Xie.
Baohua Xie Design - TFboys Logo design
Designer Interview of Baohua Xie:
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?
BX : I am a graphic designer. Childhood love painting, dream grew up is a painter, and later found the design more interesting in the university, so do a designer.
DI: Can you tell us more about your company / design studio?
BX : 2001 set up the design studio, do a very miscellaneous, 2011 set up BEYOND DESIGN design company, mainly to do brand design.
DI: What is "design" for you?
BX : Transforming behavior into vision, making life more creative.
DI: What kinds of works do you like designing most?
BX : Different, and by the public favorite works.
DI: What is your most favorite design, could you please tell more about it?
BX : Like all the excellent design, the favorite Lamborghini Aventador sports car design
DI: What was the first thing you designed for a company?
BX : A pharmaceutical company logo design
DI: What is your favorite material / platform / technology?
BX : Excellent like all
DI: When do you feel the most creative?
BX : In a good mood
DI: Which aspects of a design do you focus more during designing?
BX : I pay more attention to whether the design is accepted by the audience
DI: What kind of emotions do you feel when you design?
BX : Feeling the feeling of being daddy
DI: What kind of emotions do you feel when your designs are realized?
BX : Every time you design a work, feel that hard work is worth i
DI: What makes a design successful?
BX : Effort and love of design
DI: When judging a design as good or bad, which aspects do you consider first?
BX : Judgment design is good or bad, if it is commercial design, whether it can create greater business value
DI: From your point of view, what are the responsibilities of a designer for society and environment?
BX : Give the United States to enjoy, to avoid visual pollution, I can not stand the design just to complete the task.
DI: How do you think the "design field" is evolving? What is the future of design?
BX : Foreign I do not understand, domestic hope not only for the award, to solve customer problems is very important, the future hope that the integration of global design under the premise of self-characteristics.
DI: When was your last exhibition and where was it? And when do you want to hold your next exhibition?
BX : 2016 Hebei University of a exhibition, the next time there is no plan
DI: Where does the design inspiration for your works come from? How do you feed your creativity? What are your sources of inspirations?
BX : Inspired by the accumulation of life, love life, love to read, love travel is very helpful to the design，A person driving the best inspiration, but do not advocate.
DI: 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?
BX : I have no obvious design style, I like the simple design, interest is the best way.
DI: 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?
BX : I am in Jiangsu, China, China's cultural heritage is very strong, rich in Chinese elements can be used, I believe that China's design is a step by step towards the international
DI: How do you work with companies?
BX : I am the founder of the company
DI: What are your suggestions to companies for working with a designer? How can companies select a good designer?
BX : Design companies can not only benefit as the core, but also should consider the quality of the designer's work. Our company chooses designers not to look at the years of work and look at the designer's potential.
DI: Can you talk a little about your design process?
BX : The current adjustment for the thinking of the time accounted for 1/3, sketch time 1/3, the computer completed 1/3
DI: What are 5 of your favorite design items at home?
BX : Like more than five, TFBOYS is one of them
DI: Can you describe a day in your life?
BX : Morning used to write a day of work plan, and then busy day design work, occasionally meet customers, like to go to work and friends party.
DI: Could you please share some pearls of wisdom for young designers? What are your suggestions to young, up and coming designers?
BX : Must be the ultimate request for their own works, brave to share their own works
DI: From your perspective, what would you say are some positives and negatives of being a designer?
BX : I think the designer's biggest motivation is that the work is recognized!
DI: What is your "golden rule" in design?
BX : The design as part of life, will come out good works.
DI: What skills are most important for a designer?
BX : Rich knowledge and aesthetic ability
DI: Which tools do you use during design? What is inside your toolbox? Such as software, application, hardware, books, sources of inspiration etc.?
BX : Only photoshop CorelDRAW these two software
DI: Designing can sometimes be a really time consuming task, how do you manage your time?
BX : In addition to sleeping time, anytime, anywhere may be thinking about creativity, with the computer performance time did not think much time
DI: How long does it take to design an object from beginning to end?
BX : This is subject to the requirements of the project
DI: What is the most frequently asked question to you, as a designer?
BX : How to make the work more creative
DI: What was your most important job experience?
BX : In 2002 the first design of the Games emblem and award-winning, very memorable
DI: Who are some of your clients?
BX : Service customers have TFBOYS, OPPO, Bank of China, the United States and other groups ... ...
DI: What type of design work do you enjoy the most and why?
BX : I like the simplicity of the design, because the simple design is more inclusive
DI: What are your future plans? What is next for you?
BX : The graphic design has been done
DI: Do you work as a team, or do you develop your designs yourself?
BX : We are a team
DI: Do you have any works-in-progress being designed that you would like to talk about?
BX : We are in the OPPO team image design, also do tea brand design
DI: How can people contact you?
BX : Generally through the Internet to find us