Interview with Danilo Olim

the atelier of DAAO tries to answer the need to create useful objects to habitat, where it lost creativity

The design is a response to our daily needs

Furniture for home and public spaces

my first piece of furniture. A chaiseloungue having a rotation, becoming a long rocking chair. It's called # 21

furniture

I love the CNC technology. and I love the wood

In Morning

In developing the concept

I feel happy when designing

The completion of a project encourages me to start the following I have in mind

Its utility by the absence of superficial

its function

The responsibilities of the designer are the improvement of people's lives, Development is appropriate methods and objects

The future of design is inextricably linked to the advancement of technology. I think go for a joint discipline

The nature and biommimetic are my great source of inspiration. The answers are all in nature

minimal and funcional

I live in Lisbon. Do not believe a local design. The overall design is, like life in general

Respond to requests handing me completely. always depends on the briefing

It is essential companies to work with a designer. This creates and optimizes product. The concept of a good designer is always relative. A designer before being a good designer has to be an apprentice

My process is to investigate initially create a concept according om the customer and optimize it to the level of production and materials

Wake up early and work in the morning. By week four vees go swimming 12.30. to return to work and end the day later I'll get my daughter to school. Studied and talked. after dinner sometimes still work a little

Study mutch and work hard

I see only positive things. An early career is allowed to dream and who knows later finish

honesty with the client and with yourself

do not get hooked to dogmas and not following fads

like going to the movies, it's inspiring. think and draw three-dimensionally in your mind is the first step. write a lot, all thoughts drift project. and never escape the concept. then for each project there is a different feramenta to approach it

I always think I'll get by is shorter than the time

binding to manufacture. resolve many details of the project in manufactures

individuals and companies

create furniture. Because it is a challenge to design pieces to the scale of human

internationalize my brand of furniture

currently develop the work of my own brand, but I think eventually open the brand to other desiners