Interview with Jui-Ping Lee

Jui-Ping Lee ("JL") interviewed on Thursday, 24 October.

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

JL : I started around 10 years ago...and simply paint. nothing fancy nor dramatic. You just draw works one after another trying to make better and better works.

How did you become a designer?

JL : It was at my highschool days that I see other's works and thnk them so beautiful and can't get enough of them...then it suddenly occurs to be that why can't I draw those myself? So I don't need to wait them to make new works, and that becomes the start of my artists road.

What are your priorities, technique and style when designing?

JL : The holy grail is beautiful. any technique or style that can make the work beautiful is equally instrumental and important.

Which emotions do you feel when designing?

JL : Usually pain...artists know this. You only feel pain during creation just like you only feel pain when laboring.

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

JL : Nothing particular I'kk say...it also means that everyone and anyone can be a designer. There's no prerequirement or "background" you need to become one.

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

JL : Try and make better works...that's the one and only growth path and future plans.

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

JL : Don't create for the sake of creation. Create because you feel the urge to present or to persue beauty.

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

JL : Please stop creating junks and call them arts and force people to praise them.

What is your day to day look like?

JL : Nothing fancy...I wake up in the morning, have breakfast, watch some news and browse the internet, start to work and eat meals at lunch and diner, and have showers and go to bed at bed time.

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

JL : There's no trend ever matter to an artists, unless they are profit makers instead. Why should trend ever matter if your core value is to create beautiful works?

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

JL : I know a good work if I see beauty. That's also the only and simpliest way of defining a good work.

How do you decide if your design is ready?

JL : If i find nothing I can do more to improve it...it could be that I see points of improvements after 1 or 2 months because I become more polished, but as long as at the time I create the work I can't improve it anymore, that's the cutting point.

Who is your favourite designer?

JL : It changes from time to time because artists changes from time to time...so it's not quite a easy question to answer to.

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

JL : Quite boring, just like a mundane, next door person.

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

JL : I make beautiful arts and bring beauty to this world full of hideousness. That's the key.

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