Interview with Jack Lim

Jack Lim ("JL") interviewed on Wednesday, 25 May.

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

JL : 6 Years being as an Interior Designer with the same company after I’ve graduated from Lim Kok Wing University. Handover more than 30 projects up to date and the best thing I ever appreciate is that clients appreciate me implementing their lifestyle into the space and design.

How did you become a designer?

JL : Becoming an Interior designer are inspired from my past life experience as I’m person that always thought of crazy idea, draw things that doesn’t exists and building models trying to create something special, it’s fun and challenging while combining all into one.

What are your priorities, technique and style when designing?

JL : Three most important rules to prior, technique and style when designing. First always listen to audience and see what actually they are looking for to the spaces, second to digest and combine of what we got in our mind to create what’s best needed to fulfil, third to present with the flow according to their style, thought and achieved the idea of needed.

Which emotions do you feel when designing?

JL : The most exciting and challenging moment while designing projects are always come with lots of opinions and ideas from different parties and if you manage to combine all the ideas into masterpiece, that is how you enjoy the moment while achieving the best outcome and everyone give applause to the design.

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

JL : Always listen and digest before you come out with an idea, it could help to workout the idea and thoughts to give the best solution for the desire design from different aspects.

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

JL : Personal growth path would probably be one of the top listed Interior Designer in Southeast Asia that could help other designer to improve their skills and designs. Definitely own a dream house out of my imagination and build from scratch which able to fit in my lifestyle and soul.

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

JL : I would probably advice them apart from self learning, think out of the box and go as far as it could to come out with crazy idea that had never been done. Anyhow while into reality, it must be challenging while crazy idea are always attach with a lots of error and mistake even cost, but never give up learning and keep going into deep to achieve your ideas.

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

JL : The best practice and principles in being an Interior Designer are always a good listener, take away your selfishness and aggressiveness as it never help you to improve anything in your work or even life path.

What is your day to day look like?

JL : Always list down my tasks, ideas in advance before the next day or elsewhere you could never come out with the best idea. The little happy or excitement thought out the workday which’s you completed all your pending task and finally you can enjoy the moment of thinking ideas.

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

JL : Keep updated on trend are always the right choices as ideas always come from inspiration or so called references, and somehow it could boost your own design idea that helps a lot for your own goods and knowledge to throw it all out for future.

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

JL : Good design always come with good emotions and overall ambience which makes your feel emotions something but that is what next level of design and idea. Never go into intends mode as it never helps you to get what’s best design or even achieve what others needed. The main criteria to judges good design are simple, well presentation, well concept explanation and story-line.

How do you decide if your design is ready?

JL : To decide the design is ready which require multiple times of revision and try with a lot of other method of construct or amendments.

What is your biggest design work?

JL : The best and biggest design I’ve ever work are luxury classic design; it gave me lots of emotion and technical error that I have to think twice if I am able to fulfil the combination of luxury and classic elements. The most challenging and excited part of designing luxury classic is the way you input both idea into a space.

Who is your favourite designer?

JL : I personally do not have any specific favorite designer as I believe everyone has implemented different story and soul in their design. But talk about Taiwanese Interior Designer, they are all famous as celebrity in their country, they would always put their priority on concept design and practicality first.

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

JL : The favorite or inspiring city are definitely Taiwan as mention they would rather priories the conception design with emotion and practicality. Music is always first before comes out with the design, it gave you inspirational of emotions and flows to think further. Good design is necessary for advancement of society because design is always an art and emotions that can give anyone the space that they’re looking for.

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

JL : Work hard is not an easy task but working smart is even more challenging as you need lots of inspiration and knowledge in order for you to think fast and come out the best opinion and solution to anyone. We always work as a team, as working alone are just part of working for yourself.

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

JL : Would always love to share more to the new blood in the Malaysia society, but before no one else know me, I think it could possibly I should enhance my designs and skills. When I am ready, new blood would be the first one I will share all my experiences to.

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

JL : The main benefits of participating to design awards and competitions attending the A’ Design Award while you could show everyone that design are no limits and boundaries and some of the people never appreciat design, also it could bring you into another level of being an normal interior designer that no one would appreciated your work.

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