Interview with Fabio Su

Fabio Su ("FS") interviewed on Friday, 20 May.

Could you please tell us about your experience as a designer, artist, architect or creator?

FS : I was born in Taiwan and lived in Argentina for 15 years. Now I am living in Taiwan. These experiences make my design contain different kind of country culture and more multi-variant.

How did you become a designer?

FS : I have loved drawing since I was a kid, enthusiasm for painting and have strong feeling of natural beauty. Observing nature changed grain, color, temperature, and variation of light-shadow by season is what I like. when I get into painting, I always neglect hustle and bustle around me. I know one day I will become a designer because it is my dream.

What are your priorities, technique and style when designing?

FS : My style is diversification but also stable. I will change my style base on the case. Good designers should not limit themselves, but open the mind to take challenges.

Which emotions do you feel when designing?

FS : When I am designing, I always think about how to make my design more funny and close to spirit. Passing though challenges makes my design with more personal style.

What particular aspects of your background shaped you as a designer?

FS : Design is a lengthy and lonely road. I often face challenges and painfulness. This experience makes me grow up, it is a necessary course which every design should have. The bitter process leads to the sweet fruits.

What is your growth path? What are your future plans? What is your dream design project?

FS : Design is a lengthy and lonely road. I often face challenges and painfulness. This experience makes me grow up, it is a necessary course which every design should have. The bitter process leads to the sweet fruits.

What are your advices to designers who are at the beginning of their career?

FS : Continue to take on challenges and never limit yourself. The most important thing is to be enthusiastic.

You are truly successful as a designer, what do you suggest to fellow designers, artists and architects?

FS : A great designer has heavy duties of society and environment. An excellent technique can treat nature well and a great idea is the best social education.

What is your day to day look like?

FS : I always take my kids to school at 7 o’clock then start to work at 9 o’clock. After a busy period, I will get off work and take kids back home. Enjoy a happiness time with my family.

How do you keep up with latest design trends? To what extent do design trends matter?

FS : Nowadays, science and technology become more and more flourishing and everything change so fast. This phenomenon makes design difficult to predict. I believe design will include all domains in the future and brand a new type of design.

How do you know if a product or project is well designed? How do you define good design?

FS : Communicate with customer is the basic part for successful design. After fully realizing what customer wants, we will vitalize design with style and it will become a perfect opus.

How do you decide if your design is ready?

FS : A good design is through continuous communication and adjustment, the initial first has the general direction and pattern, style set, and then step by step to plan the more detailed part of the painting, and in each discussion, there will be new ideas injected into it, and make the design more complete, then the entire design will be 3D rendering simulation, and then with my original mind of the picture mutual proof. At this point this design is complete.

What is your biggest design work?

FS : I think my proudest work is 111, a combination of home and studio. I hope to use this project to convey some message, in the conflict of building materials, make high contrast style mixed soft paving, in the metropolitan area to adopt energy-saving design, these are the main challenges of this project, but also for the innovation of industrial law, so that I encountered a lot of challenges in the construction, and when the case was completed, I was so proud, and now I am also planning a primary school for the aborigines in the mountains, hoping to integrate the Aboriginal culture and language into my design, I hope to complete his design.

Who is your favourite designer?

FS : Carlos Páez Vilaro from Paraguay is the one who influence me the most. As an artist and designer, he perfectly makes aesthetics in harmony with nature. This is also my goal.

Would you tell us a bit about your lifestyle and culture?

FS : I was born in Taiwan and lived in Argentina for 15 years. Now I am living in Taiwan. These experiences make my design contain different kind of country culture and more multi-variant.

Would you tell us more about your work culture and business philosophy?

FS : Everyone is on a boat. We work hard together and go forward together.

What are your philanthropic contributions to society as a designer, artist and architect?

FS : I will be better able to use my own knowledge to come back to social, and pass my experience on people who endeavor in the field of design.

What positive experiences you had when you attend the A’ Design Award?

FS : By submitting my design to an international design competition, I want to enhance my abilities, and to push my design to the international.

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