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About Quan Yuan

I'm just an ordinary designer whose doing design for 30 years, but I hope to use my unique designs to make people feel relaxed, happy and more fun. Reducing excessive packaging is my goal, and I hope to use more environmentally environmentally friendly materials in my future designs to make the world a better place.

Interview with Quan Yuan

Quan Yuan ("QY") interviewed on Wednesday, 1 January.

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

QY : I have been designing for about 30 years, I have done filming, graphic design, interior design, furniture design, and my interests are quite varied, and it's probably these interests that have provided me with a lot of design inspiration. My clients are mainly Chinese companies and I have done a lot of logo design, packaging design, and furniture design. Especially for wine packaging, from the shape of the bottle to the outer packaging, these are the things I like and specialize in.

How did you become a designer?

QY : I graduated from Zhengzhou University of Light Industry in 1994, majoring in industrial design. I studied painting since I was a child, and my ideal at that time was to become a painter, but I didn't get into the oil painting or printmaking majors of the Academy of Fine Arts, and I only got into the design majors of ordinary universities, and I learned the design majors in a haphazard way. When I first went to college in 1991, China had just opened its doors to the world, and everyone knew very little about design. I knew even less about design and only had a basic knowledge of art. In the university also only learned some design basics, and the university teachers really understand the design is not much, but still through various channels to see a lot of foreign design albums, and slowly from not understand to understand slowly become a designer. When I was young, I liked to see all kinds of novelty and fashionable designs of foreign designers, and I fantasized that I would design something like them one day in the future. When I first graduated from university in 1994, there was no Internet at that time, and I had no way to see the outside world. I did a logo design for a communication company in China, one of the alternatives was not selected by the client, but I liked it very much. 1999 when I went abroad once, in the United States, I was surprised to find that it was exactly the same as the logo of Saturn, a sub-brand of Ford, I was 27 years old at that time, and I never thought that my idea was the same as that of the world-class company, I was very excited, and it also strengthened my confidence. I was very excited and it strengthened my confidence. I went to the United States to work for 8 years from 1999 to 2007, during which time I worked as a designer for a web design company and a printing company respectively, and since I returned to China in 2007, I have been an independent designer with my own studio.

What are your priorities, technique and style when designing?

QY : When designing, my focus is to develop ideas around the characteristics of the product, first find out enough designs of similar products to avoid other people's design ideas. Think about how to realize it in a better way from multiple perspectives, and keep sketching until I find the optimal solution. Then I will make a simple physical model first to judge whether it is worth making a digital model.

Which emotions do you feel when designing?

QY : Generally speaking, if I can easily find the initial idea that excites me, and in the specific design process, keep on revising it, and in the end, I can still restore the feeling that I originally envisioned, which is the most exciting, then this design project is the most satisfying for me.

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

QY : I studied painting since I was a child, and my ideal was to become a painter, and if I can't be a painter, I will be a designer, which is not contradictory, because both professions need a strong foundation in art. I can't talk about which person had the greatest influence on me, the main thing is my own learning ability and persistence.

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

QY : Regarding my growth path, as I answered in question 2, my future plan is to become a furniture designer, and my dream design project is also furniture design.

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

QY : The future is all unknown, try to stick to what you really want to do and stick to it in ten year increments.

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

QY : I don't have any advice, because I think most designers are doing better than me. If I had to say there is advice, it would be not to rely too much on AI to do design.

What is your day to day look like?

QY : I just moved to the US for my children's education, and now my daily routine is to cook for my son, learn English, and prepare to find a job as a designer here.

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

QY : I think a good designer has to have his own unique insight and stick to his own design style. He should not follow the trend randomly because the trend will be outdated easily, while a good design is not swayed by the fashion trend.

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

QY : A good design must be beautiful, it must be practical and it must be easy to use. So I will consider these three aspects when evaluating a design. In addition, every good design should also have its anthropomorphic temperament, and through this anthropomorphism to let itself tell its own story. A good design can speak, that's the reason.

How do you decide if your design is ready?

QY : Don't finish a project in a hurry, try to make the product perfect without any regrets.

What is your biggest design work?

QY : It is my biggest regret that my best design work was not mass-produced due to the client's financial problems, and I hope to bring it back to the market sometime in the future. The Coolline Bottle, which is now winning awards at A'Design, is a good design, but it is not great enough. It took me over a year to go from having the idea to solving the joint structure problem to finalizing it. It has an interesting 2D to 3D transition, subtle positionable joints, and combinable features, all of which I like.

Who is your favourite designer?

QY : My favorite designer is the Danish designer Verner Panton, whose classic Panton Chair deeply influenced me when I was young. There are also Japanese designer Sori Yanagi, Danish designer Arne Jacobsen, Japanese industrial designer Kenji Ekuan, Japanese new generation designer Oki Sato, etc. There are so many great designs that I fall in love with the first time I see them, for no reason at all.

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

QY : My favorite city is New York, where I live now. There are a lot of classic buildings and museums here, it's a place where all the world's cultures collide and it gives me a lot of inspiration. I think design is about creating beauty, and creating more beautiful and more human-centered works can only be beneficial to the development and progress of society.

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

QY : I made the biggest decision in my life and chose to come to New York to start over. I don't know what the future holds yet, but I will try my best.

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

QY : When I was in China, I participated in a lot of unpaid design work and some lectures that provided experience to design college students. If there is an opportunity in New York in the future, I will actively participate in it.

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

QY : Participating in A'Design is my first design competition, which may help me in my future career, but I don't know yet.

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