We, as the Designer Interviews ("DI") had the distinct pleasure and opportunity to interview award-winning, most creative and innovative Senior engineer ("SE").
YIHENG YANG, senior engineer, whose hobby is fine art, majored in Achitectural Design and minored in Photography and Art Appreciation when he studied in university. Mr. Yang started his career as a designer in 1996 and established his own company in 2009. His works have covered many fields, including villas, hotels, sales departments, bars and model apartments. He has good insight and is quick in learning.He loves life.He is hurnorous and easy-going,always making his friends around him laughing and amazed .
Senior engineer Designs
We are pleased to share with you original and innovative design work by Senior engineer.
Designer Interview of Senior engineer:
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?
SE : I have been fond of fine art and Chinese paintings and have special understanding of Chinese paintings. I majored in Architectural Design When I studied in university and I am now working as a senior Engineer in Architecture. I often travel abroad to visit works of interior and environmental designs. I have my own ways and comprehension of the combination of the Chinese culture and western cultures in the interior and environmental conditions.
DI: Can you tell us more about your company / design studio?
SE : Windwing Co.Ltd is mainly working on interior and environmental designing. We have been creating new model apartments for the real estate companies, some of which are successful, making them hot in the sales. At the same time , Windwing Co.Ltd has covers the fields of designing bars in the Fire-star hotels, villa, luxious office buildings,factory buildings, which are significant. Windwing Co.Ltd believes that we will become famous in China.
DI: What is "design" for you?
SE : Designing is an art to connect environment, space and human. beings and it also provides people with comfortable and pleasant living or working or leisure space or sites. In my opinion, Designing is a process of making functional works of aesthetics.
DI: What kinds of works do you like designing most?
SE : My favorites are the designs of bars, hotels, villas, model apartments, gardens.
DI: What is your most favorite design, could you please tell more about it?
SE : My favorite design is creating unique effects in space by using the elements of Chinese culture, with various materials, colors and decorating items.
DI: What was the first thing you designed for a company?
SE : What I first designed for my company was a model apartment for Jinxiu Garden. The layout of the model apartment is well organized with all functional areas. I solved the key problems with interior space, naturally lighting, and the ventilation by making full use of the architectural structure.
DI: What is your favorite material / platform / technology?
SE : My favorites materials are stones, wood and decorating items with unique ethnic characteristics.
DI: When do you feel the most creative?
SE : First of all, designers are supposed to be a group of individuals who show great interests in designing and take up designing as their hobby. Second, my inspirations and creativity mostly occur during the time when I am relaxed, sometimes when it is late at night with quietness, sometimes when I take a walk by myself with on one else, sometimes when I am in a shower. When I am free and not disturbed, I will reflect on the design plans, analyze their major and minor elements, search, edit and integrate my comprehensive knowledge to gain my inspirations and creativity. Whenever it is relaxing, I will reflect on the design plans if possible and gain my creative inspirations. So, designing never comes to an end.
DI: Which aspects of a design do you focus more during designing?
SE : When designing instead of working out a design, I analyze the case first, finding hour many elements are relevant, what the client is fond of, the functions that are required and the critical problems. Taking all these into consideration, I create comfortable, pleasant and splendid visual experience and visual highlight by employing technical methods.
DI: What kind of emotions do you feel when you design?
SE : Environmental designing exists during to people's pursuit of psychology and enjoyment. Although I am a romantic modern structuralist designer, I like using simple techniques, adding adding lights, bars, teahouses and bay windows, to create leisure free and romantic living space.The purpose of environmental design is to satisfy the emotional needs of my the clients instead of replacing theirs with mine, though I myself have my own emotions. Above all, my designing techniques, the usages of materials and colors depend mainly on what kind of houses and my clients want or what emotional design my clients would like to employ, whether quiet or enthusiastic, whether modern or classic. Before designing, I would spend plenty time communicating with the my clients, learning more about their hobbies and emotions, combining my techniques to design the comfortable entertaining and interior and exterior environment full of their unique personalities and emotions.
DI: What kind of emotions do you feel when your designs are realized?
SE : When my design plans are selected and carried out, I am happy and full of senses of achievements, values and existence. Designing is also a language to have heart-to-heart communication. As a designer, I expect my clients are able to discover: my designs are unique, which can't be defined, which are predicting the future of designing and which are able to stand scrutiny. To be approved of by my clients is my motivation to continue to design creatively.
DI: What makes a design successful?
SE : First, designers are supposed to study sociology, learn the interpersonal relations, the lifestyles and needs of different groups of people or classes or social status, which will benefit their designing. Good designs depend on good communication, which helps designers to learn as much as possible their clients' needs for the functions of their living space and their preference for the styles. Second, designers are supposed to have a good command of basic knowledge, enabling them to control their senses of space and materials, the changes of colors and the match for furniture or equipment and lighting effects. Designers are also supposed to know the materials such as mud, wood, water, electricity, metals and their products and the techniques to make use of them. Furthermore, designers should be learned with comprehensive cultural knowledge, such as the basic types of structures, Fengshui, physical dynamics, chemical biology, landscape art and intelligent home furnishing. Besides, designers should love their life, aware of the meaning of life. Designers had better have their own hobbies, such as photography, playing musical instruments, painting, poems, bonsai and flower arrangements. It is said that a successful designer is a romantic showing his/her love for life as well. In order to satisfy not only their clients' needs for functions but also their clients' pursuit of beauty, designer should improve themselves continuously. Designers should not only realize what their clients have dreamed of but also improve what their clients have never imagined. What makes a designer successful is his/her ability to satisfy and improve his /her clients' needs for functions and their quality of life as well as create free, comfortable and pleasant living space for them.
DI: When judging a design as good or bad, which aspects do you consider first?
SE : An environmental design is actually a design focusing on personalities.There are no exactly alike two houses or two owners.Every owner has his or her pursuit and dream about his or her house. A good environmental design should be spacious，comfortable, tasty，stylish and attractive, meeting people's need for aesthetics.Meanwhile, a good environmental design is supposed to be solutions to the practical problems or a works of certain functions.An environmental design is a mixture of art and practical functions, concerning the living conditions, habits and interests of the clients.They are not independent but dependent on each other, combining aesthetics and convenience.A designer can't attach too much attention to the aesthetic of the works，neglecting the functions.A good design should bring convenience to people.A perfect environmental design should be able to satisfy the needs of the client for his or her physical and psychological pursuit.
DI: From your point of view, what are the responsibilities of a designer for society and environment?
SE : First, designers should respect intellectual property rights, stick to their professional ethics and refuse to copy any poor fake design plans. Second, designers should be civic-minded and able to tell good from bad or beautiful from ugly. Designers should not participate in or accept any business, which does harm to the public interest, does damage to others, goes against our laws or regulations or the professional ethics. Designers should be active in passing on positive energy and responsible for our society and civic-minded. Finally, designers should keep environmental protection and energy saving in mind, try their best to use eco-friendly materials, save materials, even reform the waste material or deserted trashed objects enabling them to gain new values, attach importance to the sustainability and recyclability of the materials in environmental protection, work hard to reach the goal of zero-wasting. The designers with such qualities are real top designers. Designers should be responsible for the environmental protection and the sustainability of humans.
DI: How do you think the "design field" is evolving? What is the future of design?
SE : First of all, I noticed that people are diversifying and personalizing their lives, so I think designing will be diversifying and personalizing as well. That is to say, every project I design is to satisfy the needs of a specific client and this kind of specific tailor-made designing will be what many future designers will do. The boarder of designing is disappearing gradually. In the future, the traditional unitary border of designers will be blurred or disappearing, which means to designers, what are vital to them are their abilities to employ their inter-professional techniques to figure out the appropriate joints of different fields. "Intelligent" will be essential in the future designing. With the development of sensing technology, mechanical automation and new types material, intelligent will be more intelligent, such as controlling the interior lighting and temperature automatically. In the future, it is necessary to adopt intelligent designing into space designing. And the designers who master this technique will win more and more businesses from their clients. Designing is not only to satisfy the clients' needs for functions but also to satisfy their needs for emotions. The future designing will balance the functions and emotions for their clients. Designing is supposed to bring comfort, familiarity and the self-recognition of clients' emotions. In my opinion, personalization, "intelligent" and emotional self-recognition should be featured in the future designing.
DI: When was your last exhibition and where was it? And when do you want to hold your next exhibition?
SE : We are a well-known team designing model apartments in this region and we have different model apartments open to the public or on show every year. The newly completed model apartment in Jiangnanxingyu, whose theme is "the summit", was open to the public and on show in January, 2020. The model apartments which are under design and construction are scheduled to be completed and open to the public in September, 2020.
DI: Where does the design inspiration for your works come from? How do you feed your creativity? What are your sources of inspirations?
SE : I have always been willing to accept new ideas and renewing my ideas.Environmental designing is a kind of art, concerning architectural projects, decoration, fine art and garden design.So, designing requires learned designers or even accomplished ones. First, my inspiration comes from my experience of architectural and interior design, garden design and my study appreciation of paintings and calligraphy, which enables me to dealing with different kinds of space. Secondly, I am a independent creatine designer.I enjoy designing unique significant works, which is one of my designing ideas and techniques.Designing by imitating is lacking in innovations, let alone creative.What's more, the client' idea of consumption is changing from time to with the development of the Era of Information, causing the average designs to be rejected by the clients.The personalities of the designer is key factor to influence the style of the design works.As for the same project, different designers may have different designing plans, each with their different apparent characteristics,which will be accepted by the market meeting the needs of the market.Designers are motivated by the world full of various decorations, styles, schools, absorbing, learning, studying, guessing, modifying, comprehending, digesting, employing and changing, developing his or her own special style. Thirdly, I attach importance to communicating with my clients , learning more about their requirements about their living, working or entertaining space and their hobbies.I usually get my inspirations from my conversations with my clients or my meditations. Moreover, though the clients are not professional designers, some of them are more knowledgeable than me in some aspects, inspiring me. It is easier to make such innovations into reality. Besides what is mentioned above, I also get inspiration from many other aspect, especially from our daily life, Seizing every bit of our life, including the colors of nature, shapes and qualities, I discover the beauty in it and use my imagination, supply all the good elements to my designs, creating my typical design. That is how I create comfortable, enjoyable and pleasant living space and environment, which is also my source of inspiration to pursue the aesthetics in space art.
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?
SE : I belong to those who advocate romantic personalized modern structuralist designing styles. Because most of my clients and I are fond of the simplest modernism, and at the same time, I am not willing to abandon the classic elements of Eastern and Western cultures, I am impelled to explore how to make use of modern techniques to set the classical elements off, and I sometimes simplify the classical elements directly to merge with the modern interior structural designs. I employ the modern simplified techniques skillfully, such as straight lines, arcs, circles, flat surfaces, solids and three-dimensional curved surfaces with some classical details as decorations. Sometimes, I have my soft accessories programs dominate the theme of my designs. Combining the classical elements and the restraints and orders of modern designing, creating elegant aesthetic romantic functional space for luxurious projects of any scales is the characteristics of my design style. That makes my designs both personalized and pleasant, and people's eyes lighting up at the first sight of my designs means my designs work and that they are well-received.
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?
SE : I was born in China and I have been living in China all my life. I have been nurtured in Chinese culture all my life, which has a deep impact on my design style, such as employing symmetry, equation and other applications of decorating elements. Living in China, I can get inspirations easily from the Chinese culture and apply Chinese elements to decorate my works easily, such as Chinese furniture, curtains and Chinese paintings. On the other hand, I am limited in my design by the Chinese culture, such as color schemes. I prefer the color schemes employed in the European interior designs, so I have spent a lot of time studying the color schemes of the European interior designs, which leads me to adopt them to many of my works, adding some Chinese elements as decorations, creating active and pleasant visual effects welcomed by my clients.
DI: How do you work with companies?
SE : 1 I communicate with my clients, learning their demands for the functions in their apartments and their preferences of art styles and then I will state my concept of design in order so that I can be trusted and that my design will be approved. 2 I constantly organize the staff of the designing department to study and appreciate popular elements, color schemes and successful design cases at home and abroad. We complete each and every unique interior design plan combining the preferences of the local clients. 3 I take responsibility for planning the organization of the overall project, carrying out the plan for project, assigning different people different jobs, making work schedules and improving the efficiency. 4 I respect every single individual who works together to put the design concept into reality, including the designing team and the construction team. Cooperation based on the hard work of every individual in my company is the basis and guarantee to accomplish perfect works, I am honored to work together with every individual in my company to accomplish works satisfying our clients, which is a pleasure to me.
DI: What are your suggestions to companies for working with a designer? How can companies select a good designer?
SE : Designing is a complicated industry, covering various materials, involving different jobs, and requiring a wide range of knowledge. Besides, in China, new concepts, new materials and new methods boom every day, so it is necessary to learn and progress in our work, working with other designers. I suggest that companies should organize their designers get together to study their design plans, get their ideas straight, integrate their opinions and assign right people proper jobs. Only in this way, can companies make outstanding design plans. A good designer should have such qualities: He should be creative, filled with inspirations and capable of appreciating art. A designer should know how to enjoy life. Only when he knows how to enjoy life, can he show others how to enjoy life better. I think it a duty of a designer. A designer should attach importance to teamwork and respect for the construction workers. Only when a designer cooperate with others, can he turn his design plan and blueprint into reality and put his works into use and win appreciation. A designer should work hard and be responsible. Working over time is unavoidable in this industry. A designer should not be eager to make big money from this industry. If he or she is thirsty to make big money all the time, he or she can't turn good designer, because designing industry isn't profitable.
DI: Can you talk a little about your design process?
SE : A complete interior designing procedure includes four stages: the preparations, the plan designing, the construction designing and the implementation of the design plan. Stage 1 Preparations. At this stage, I mainly communicate with my client, learn what his or her preferences or demands are. When I am entrusted, I will confirm the task of designing. Then I will sign contact concerning the design plan and make schedule for the designing and the charges. I will also consider the cooperation between different jobs. Stage 2 Plan designing. At this stage, basing on the previous preparations, I start to design the first design plan, which mainly includes: Layout Plan(Reasonable space division) Reflected Ceiling Plan Detail Interior Perspective: showing the integral layout, quality and colors directly The real scene of interior design materials(Structural detail drawing, materials, equipment, Furniture lighting details or photos) Design illustration and estimate Stage 3 Construction designing: following Stage 2, I detail the design plan, making construction easy, which mainly includes : (Computer graphics) Floor plan (including a furniture plan) Reflected Ceiling Plan Elevation Specifications Details Electric plan and piping layouts Construction description Estimate Stage 4 Implementation of the design plan: that is the stage where interior decoration is carried out, requiring effective communication between the designer and the workers, making his/her concept and requirements for the techniques related to the project. When it happens that any change should be made in the design plan, a design change notice should be issued first by the designer. On the accomplishment, the designer and the engineering department will inspect the project together before acceptance.
DI: What are 5 of your favorite design items at home?
SE : The five latest projects: 1 The sales center of City Crossing Real Estate 2 The model apartment in Xingfuli 3 The model apartments in Yujingjiangnan 4 The sales center of Poly Real Estate 5 The MIXC
DI: Can you describe a day in your life?
SE : My daily routine is changing, but I usually meet my clients or visit the work sites where my workers are carrying out my design plans in the daytime while in the evening, I stay up late into night considering my design plans or studying.
DI: Could you please share some pearls of wisdom for young designers? What are your suggestions to young, up and coming designers?
SE : Speaking of young designers, I think it necessary for you to make sure whether you are really enthusiastic about this profession. If not, quit the job as soon as possible. Because, for a designer, designing is your life, a life you lead. You should be able to suffer the stress accompanying your heavy work. You should be prepared and able to cope with difficult problems with designing constantly and continually. On in this way, can you be fit for the job. Tips for the ambitious young designers: 1 Further your foundation of aesthetics with your increasing cases and experience. 2 Study and comprehend the successful cases of other designers to enrich your own designing techniques. 3 Listen to your clients stating his/ her preferences and demands and create dream homes for them. You will be far off what your clients need, the real life or the market demands, which will lead you to dead ends if you only pay attention to the pursuit of forms, or the focus on your own favorite style, replacing your clients' feelings with your own feelings. 4 A real designer should be able to manage the space, using your basic sense of sizes of the buildings or objects so that you can design a warm home for your clients according to the real situations of your clients. 5 Learn as much knowledge of various subjects as possible to improve your abilities and qualities. Because designing involves many aspects, a designer should apply all kinds of knowledge, modern technology, smart home, religions, cultures, customs and even fengshui, besides knowing the materials, shapes, colors and the procedures of constructions, to his /her design plans freely. To be a successful excellent designer, you should read abundant various books, study and research art theories building up your confidence. 6 As a progressive designer, you should form a habit of thinking, weighing and considering, stimulate your own inspirations and creativities. It is a necessity to enrich your own designing techniques ensuring your design plans to satisfy the needs of your clients for the usages of his/ her home and their spiritual enjoyment.
DI: From your perspective, what would you say are some positives and negatives of being a designer?
SE : As for the positive aspect, designing is full of fun. Designing is both romantic and challenging. Of course, I have the senses of accomplishments and satisfaction when I complete a successful design case. For me, designing means discovering problems constantly and finding perfect solutions to the problems. Designing is an attitude toward my life. Designing is my life. As for the negative, designing is not meant to do whatever I would like to but to satisfy my clients. Each and every design plan is a result of the cooperation with my client, or a product of negotiation I produced with my client, which depends on my persuasion and creativity, though client-oriented, meaning the preference, character of the client and the cost come first. It is not unusual that I have to revise my design plan over and again due to the client's lack of judgment or specific preference of style or orientation. In some designing companies, some young designers are limited in their imagination or prevented from creating due to many factors: unclear assignments in designing, too many different approvals on the design plan or the over interference coming from the Director of Design. All these result in the negative effects on the designer.
DI: What is your "golden rule" in design?
SE : 1 Interior designing is neither a task to undertake blindly and boldly not an empty talk or a castle built in the air. Designing is not pure art but a subject, based on solving functional problems by the designer using his/her comprehensive knowledge, is rational. I have made it a rule for me and my team to be able to explain why there exists such a detail, a color or a shape. Only when there is a reason for the existence, can it be a reasonable design, which sounds philosophic. 2 Designing should be in accordance with people's pursuit of freedom. For instance, interior design should first meet people's needs for space (maximum space), natural lighting and ventilation. 3 Designers should obey the so-called Tri-chromatic principle when designing. There are not more than three colors in the good designed space (Neither black nor white is included.), avoiding causing anyone who stays inside for a long time visual fatigue or dazzle. 4 A successful space design should have one visual highlight, dominating the design and relaxing. It is one of the principles to make a successful design plan to avoid displaying multiple visual highlights in the same space.
DI: What skills are most important for a designer?
SE : For a designer, the main techniques include: 1 The ability to communicate. Though designing is a pursuit of art, it is not pure art; it is functional aesthetics. Designers should be able to communicate with their clients, make his/ her own design plans and concepts clear to their clients, persuade their clients and convey the perfect texture of his/ her design to create comfortable, pleasant and joyful space and environment for their clients. 2 It is necessary that designers should be able to guide their clients, make compromises, to tolerate their clients and make their clients satisfied at most. On account of the practical requirements of environmental design, designers should have the sense of aesthetics of art and the ability to return to the nature of practical usages. Good designer must be masters making compromises while artists never compromise. 3 The ability to learn and grasp new knowledge and technology with high speed. Each and every environmental design case should be unique and creative, meaning each should be the latest, different from the former, which forces designers to solve the new design case with new skills constantly. If a designer is always employs his/her usual ways to solve all problems, keep copying and pasting, he/she will remain ordinary and fail to improve himself/ herself. Keeping learning new knowledge and methods will lead to breakthrough so that you will be able to move your clients with your works which are creative and personalized.
DI: Which tools do you use during design? What is inside your toolbox? Such as software, application, hardware, books, sources of inspiration etc.?
SE : Software tools: Auto CAD，Excel、Word、office，3D MAX/LS/VR and PHOTO SHOP. I am in possession of a lot of Chinese and foreign professional books and magazines and miscellaneous books, such as THE ANATOMICAL DRAWINGS OF RESIDENTIAL INTERIOR DESIGN, Layout Master 100↑Before + After, TEACH YOU TO DIY YOUR OWN SMART HOME SYSTEM, EMOTIONAL LIFE Soft-mounted Design &Color Style Expression and BASIC ELEMENTS OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTRAL DESIGN. Besides the tools and books and magazines I mentioned above, I think there are still a lot to offer me inspirations, such as every single moment of our life, the colors in nature, modules, shapes, materials and so on, which can be applied in my design. To be specific, some elements in our life are sources of my inspirations for design. Many splendid design plans produced with modern and creative methods come from the elements that we are familiar with in our life, which prove effective.
DI: Designing can sometimes be a really time consuming task, how do you manage your time?
SE : For the majority of designers, time management is not only one of the biggest challenges but also a vital factor that decides the success of any designer. 1 Make a schedule for work When I start my work, if I don't have a list of tasks to undertake, I find my efficiency is lower, for I will deal with the tasks which are less urgent, or I will be just wasting all my time. I prefer to make a list of tasks, prioritizing them. At weekends, I check the progress of the project being undertaken and list what is to be done next week. Then I fit them into my daily schedule so that it will be easy to manage. Every day, you delete the tasks undertaken from the list, and you will find you are working and progressing every day, wasting little time and you will have more sense of accomplishment at the end of the day. 2 Set my best time for the tasks requiring attention and creativity. Individually, every day all of us have a certain time period where we can focus on our tasks attentively and complete more tasks while we have to make efforts to keep attentive in the other time periods. I sometimes find it hard to focus on what I am working on in a certain time. Though I force myself to, it turns out to be less efficient and wasting more time doing less work. I realize that I can make full use of my prime time during a day to be more efficient. Time management enables me to use my prime time when I am attentive to carry out the most creative tasks that needs most attention. I classify my emails, handle some daily task, or take a break and refresh myself when I am less attentive. In this way, I can maximize my efficiency of making full use of time, balance my work and relaxation to improve my work efficiency and results. 3 Minimize the disturbance. Though you know you should concentrate to make your work time efficient, there always happen to be disturbances, such as messages on business, telephone calls, emails or WeChat messages. However, you must manage to reduce the disturbances to avoid the bad effects on your schedule or plan so that your work plan will not be out of control. You can set a certain time in the day for this kind of disturbance to help you out. You can set a time every morning or every afternoon to deal with mails or WeChat messages and shut it off when you start to work. Never turn on your phone or check you mails or WeChat every day. Don't check every message when it reaches you unless it is urgent. No matter what distracts your attention, finding a way to reduce it or cope with it is of vital importance to your time management. 4 Stick to your work schedule strictly. Carry out what you have planned and the accurate deadline should be what makes you feel stressed or urgent so that it will be easier for you focus on what you are working on, improving your efficiency to fulfill your designing task. 5 Check your work procedure and analyze whether the arrangement is reasonable. Find what can be changed to improve your efficiency. Form a habit of identifying the potential improvement. It is also a way to manage your time.
DI: How long does it take to design an object from beginning to end?
SE : What takes to finish a design plan depends on the areas of different projects, their styles, their standards and their complexities. There is no uniform standards of time to be spent on designing by all the designers. Approximately, it takes one or one and a half months to finish an ordinary design plan and it takes three months to design a maisonette or a villa or a garden or an apartment hotel.
DI: What is the most frequently asked question to you, as a designer?
SE : 1) People often ask me, "Compared with other companies, what advantages does your company have?" My answer is that it is not convenient for us to make any comments on other companies. But I tell you that my company has the following advantages: We have high quality regulations, management and provide our clients with high quality service. My company consist of Designing Department, Engineering Department and Decorating Department, which are made up of dozens of designers, scores of construction teams and technicians. Besides, there are centers for material delivery, management of service, inspection and monitoring. We win a good reputation with our strict management and considerate service from our clients. 2) People often ask me, ''What style are you good at?" I am a professional designer. I am experienced in all kinds of styles. I will take responsibility for the realization of your preferences and your dream home. Just tell me your preferences and your demands for the functions direct. 3) People often ask me, "Do you have confidence in designing a beautiful home for me? " You can tell me your wishes for the design and offer me with the necessary conditions for my design, and you can also imagine how beautiful or comfortable your future new apartment should look like or how the functions should be displayed. Though your imagination is of course a blur consciousness, which is hard to express in a concrete way for you, it is exactly your unconsciousness that is the source of the inspiration for us designers. Let me help you to improve or further your imagination, visualize and materialize the scenes. I will consider and weigh, revise the design plan and the schemes of color with you till we complete a successful design plan to the taste of your family, which is personalized and satisfying.
DI: What was your most important job experience?
SE : My design work covers a wide range, from architectural design, interior design, landscape design to graphic design. But through years of learning and practice, I have found that first, they share many similar principles, even the similar designing concepts and processes. Besides, various kinds of knowledge of different subjects complement each other, which enables me to have further consideration than others when I set about designing. With my rich work experience and wide range of designing, I dare to accept any challenges now, ready to experience the important growth in designing greater projects.
DI: Who are some of your clients?
SE : My clients are different, but approximately, there are two kinds: Some are privates, such as housewives, owners of apartments or villas and the other are enterprises. such as owners of office buildings or factories or shops, or real estate developers.
DI: What type of design work do you enjoy the most and why?
SE : I am a professional designer and I have been experienced in all styles and I am capable of solving any problems I come across in the course of designing various styles. But I prefer to build model apartments, because I develop my thinking of designing, considering and weighing gradually at each stage. Building model apartments, I can put the new knowledge, latest technology, new materials and my new thoughts into practice, avoiding the restrictions coming from the owners. This is exactly like when you make a work of art or paint a picture. Before you set out, what others comment will have no impact on your thoughts, which means that you can apply art or the future designing methods nobody has ever tried out to your design plans. Only model apartments can exhibit more tastes of art and new functions.
DI: What are your future plans? What is next for you?
SE : 1 I plan to build more model apartments, more apartments to win awards. 2 I expect to learn designing, to take part in international designing seminars and exhibitions. 3 I am looking forward to design greater projects, such hotels and gardens. My next plan is to collect all the design plans I have completed this year and enter for the competitions in the future and win great awards.
DI: Do you work as a team, or do you develop your designs yourself?
SE : I have my team of designing, and I am Director of Design.
DI: Do you have any works-in-progress being designed that you would like to talk about?
SE : At present, we are carrying on many design projects. We are careful when communicating with our clients, which is not only the first step but also the most important step to a successful design. As Director of Design, I should attach importance to the communication with my clients, know what my clients demand better, decide what we should do next and motivate our designing.
DI: How can people contact you?
SE : Nowadays, many people contact me via WeChat, mobile phone, text message, telephone, QQ or email.
DI: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?
SE : What I would like to mention is: The owners who demand environmental designs should pay attention to the scales of the materials they select. Don't change, with the intention to buy something cheap, the ranges of the materials the designer has listed. Many cheap materials have faults in their qualities and textures, which can't guarantee the quality of the works or show display the concept of the designer or create the effects of the design plan. This is what the owners should pay close attention to . By the way, I am wondering how our design plane can gain 9 or more than 9 points in this competition and how to win gold award.