We, as the Designer Interviews ("DI") had the distinct pleasure and opportunity to interview award-winning, most creative and innovative WATARU OMAMEUDA ("WO").
We are a design consulting company that proposes homes, spaces, and town development that can be differentiated from others, with community = "connection" between people as a key factor. As a professional group of planning, real estate, and design, we will realize the diversifying needs of society and clients by producing and practicing from planning to operation in total.
WATARU OMAMEUDA Designs
We are pleased to share with you original and innovative design work by WATARU OMAMEUDA.
WATARU OMAMEUDA Design - Torifito Kanazawa Hotel
WATARU OMAMEUDA Design - Bay Tokyo Hamamatucho Hotel
Designer Interview of WATARU OMAMEUDA:
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?
WO : My father aspired to be an architect. As I continued along that path since my student days, I naturally aspired to become a designer.
DI: Can you tell us more about your company / design studio?
WO : We are a design consulting company that proposes homes, spaces, and town development that can be differentiated from others, with community = "connection" between people as a key factor. As a professional group of planning, real estate, and design, we will realize the diversifying needs of society and clients by producing and practicing from planning to operation in total.
DI: What is "design" for you?
WO : Something that stands quietly in the background, like background music, that doesn't disturb someone's music.
DI: What kinds of works do you like designing most?
WO : Something pure, free from arbitrary things, as if it had always been there.
DI: What is your most favorite design, could you please tell more about it?
WO : Like second-hand clothes, things that retain their quality even after the passage of time.
DI: What was the first thing you designed for a company?
WO : Satoyama Village
DI: What is your favorite material / platform / technology?
WO : It's not something that goes out of fashion, but something that feels like it's always been there.
DI: When do you feel the most creative?
WO : always, even now
DI: Which aspects of a design do you focus more during designing?
WO : It is necessary to separate large designs and small designs, and both are necessary.
DI: What kind of emotions do you feel when you design?
WO : Excited, excited, nervous...