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Interview with Chien-Yuan Wang

Nature is the origin of the culture. TOTEM Interior Design sticks to its faith in order to create a harmonious space with the conversation between culture and nature; ToTem keeps its promise to its…

Design Legend Interview

14 July 2025

Design comes from art - oil painting/(Fu Jen Catholic University-Department of Business Administration)(Hwa Hsia University of Techonology-Mechanical Department)

love in life Aesthetics in life

Choose to become a designer

Interior design / Related art spaces

Engage more in art study and discussion of human nature

space exploration / Ignite the spark in your life

Meet human needs / Promote harmony between man and nature

Promote people's hearts to be better/ Sincerity, kindness, and beauty are investments that promote a better world

Religious belief field environment

Public index design project

Starting from the original heart, resonating beautiful frequencies with relevant people, things, and things - generating design energy

Frank Lloyd Wright / Ieoh Ming Pei

おてらおやつクラブ,Otera Oyatsu Club / Promote social beauty

Beauty of Nordic Dawn / Doctors and patients jointly create beautiful medical effects through designed space

Learn more about the culture of your region and learn about art / Art Revolution Taipei, A.R.T. 2013-(charity program/Celebrity Charity)

Enterprise management project personnel / Integration of resources-Create enterprise and social beauty

Design is to serve human beings, and service value is creating beauty

My wife, there is no doubt, she is not only my wife , but also a good partner in my work.

Experience in life, reflection on life

Affirmation of self-life value? / External utilitarian environment-conflict of interests and values

Express design concepts through design competitions and spread beautiful energy through works

Future Medical Enterprise Group Headquarters / Generate energy through design space, create beautiful medical quality, and extend the beauty of life

Achieve beauty and lead happiness

Let’s share the beautiful energy together and move towards happiness

Generate happy energy through works - convey this concept and generate good energy that resonates with society

Design project concept ideas

Future medical space design project / Continue the value of good life

Through the development of AI, more diverse and original designs can be produced

Design can be like artistic creation, reaching into the human heart

1~3 months

Internalization of needs to generate new value needs through meditation

( I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. -Mother Teresa)

Design leads the trend

Reduce repetitive tasks in routine tasks

Auto Cad / 3d max / Sketch-up

complementation and contrast / textured / combination of elements

What feelings or thoughts do you have during the dialogue with the work?

Creator's inner world

My wife (creative director) / believe

Frank Lloyd Wright

Tao Te Ching

reading and meditation

inner self

International standards-open mind-appreciate beauty / not easy

green / mountain / pumpkin / autumn / Tai Chi / dun hill

At the construction site of the hill design project, I worked with the creative director to stay up all night and stick the mosaic note tiles on the glass piece by piece (because there would be no dust in the middle of the night)

After exercising in the morning and before getting ready for work

Never thought about it

The continuation of the beauty of the world / Enhancement of human spiritual dimension

Source of design ideas

Designer Interview

15 November 2022

I have a wide range of interests, which drives me to appreciate and enjoy art and motivates me to keep high enthusiasm toward all things. I’m not only an amateur artist but also an interior designer with a martial art background. I’ve always loved art; therefore, I’ve chosen to become am interior designer. I especially love to participate in charitable events, and was once the club director of Lions Clubs International. One of my paintings was also donated for charity at Art Revolution Taipei 2013.

Nature, primitive and simplicity represent the start of humanities and cultures. Totem Design guards the essence of the original spirit by creating the aesthetic of space from conversations between humanity and nature, interpreting the liveliness of space and culture.

It is about the conversations between humanity and nature and the harmony created through space. Let’s return to the starting point and dig deep into the conversation between human and space. Let’s view with different perspectives and lead life to walk into the path of beautiful harmony that consists of nature and delight.

I like designs that are carried out naturally through constant innovations and inner conversations between one’s conscious and senses.

Any design that can enrich the substance of life, that allows you to accumulate both inner and outer energy is a good design.

In the future, more emphasis will be put on environmental protection, changing lifestyles and cultures which lead to the interweave and integration of various fields

Thinking from a Buddhist perspective, creating canvas paintings, learning martial arts and charity events are all things that inspired me, for thinking determines everything, art fulfills life, martial arts strengthen your health and charity events are accesses to service.

I tend to utilize the creating model of oil painting to make organization. For instance, I include all elements such as color, shade, texture, line and structures to compose the melody of design. I mix and match all elements to create a sketch of a painting, and that’s my style and characteristics.

Taiwan is a country that breeds energy. It has developed so far from the period of Dutch occupation, when Zheng ChengGong first arrived Taiwan; from Ching dynasty to the democracy Taiwan we recognize today. Taiwan’s rich energy in historical development clashes the land with great spirit that inspires many designs.

I start thinking from a dot, then it will extend to a line and expand into a surface. Then it will clash, stimulate, overlap, accumulate and eventually retroact onto space. Everything starts from simplicity to complex then complex back to simplicity. In the end the most exquisite part stays.

Be confident about your design, gain energy from different perspectives that will intrigue your conscious and sensation. Don’t worry too much about the reputation of your project. Instead, you should consistantly enrich your knowledge about humanity and arts to lay the groundwork for good creation.
I suggest people to approach all kinds of art to cultivate connoisseurship and elevate your own temperament. Designers’ own depth and how they feel about beauty can give their projects liveliness and spirituality, and continue to carry out conversations with people through their projects.

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