Interview with Mohammad Reza Khakpour

Participating in a competition of high calibre gives you true feedback on your design and exact evaluation. Secondly, it is important to be part of a network that works and sustains itself, consisting of designers and people related to design and also be open and connected with new business opportunities. International competitions are institutions that manage to bring designers, design lovers and business people together. Design competitions as such, are strategic and a precious milestone for the people in the field. Being Designer of the Day makes me realise the how important the day of a Designer is and how the way we see every day reflects our thought that is being transformed into shape.

Arteavita is more a passion made reality, as it is now embracing architecture and design. Starting up an initiative that can open new doors and new perspectives is giving us the joy to continue our path on product design.

For me, design is the inspiration gaining shape and altogether functioning perfectly.

I love sculptures and I love working with wood.

My most favourite design has still to come.

A jewelry case.

My favourite material is wood, by far the most beautiful and most natural material.

When I woke up in the morning early at dawn.

Functionality.

An inner peace and harmony, kind of an inaudible melody.

A feeling of fullness that is incomparable to anything.

Three axes: shape, beauty, function.

I would say as above.

A designer has to be conscious of environmental issues and needs to bring better solutions and more beauty to everyday life.

I cannot even imagine how design will evolve, but I am syure that the human grain will never stop amazing us.

Last wxhibition was in Tehran, in an art gallery. My next exhibition will be in Milan.

Design inspiration comes from my family, my kids, the love I give and receive.

Industrial I would but by giving it a name is restrictive.

I live in Greece, the birthplace of my wife. My cultural heritage is strong inside me. I am on a crossroad of cultures and i do belong somewhere in the middle within this Greek-Persian blend.

As a freelancer, but I am open to new opportunities.

Tell him what you need and let him/her to create.

I firstly sketch on a paper my concept and the I start the design process by bringing it into reality.

I can't deny my pencils are my favourites, I cannot stop looking at them.

I wake up in the morning, have a good breakfast around the table with my wife and kids, and then leave to go to my beloved office/workshop, a place full of life and love that I created for myself. When I come back home, rest, gym or playing football with my son.

Listen to the society, feel the vibes and leave your brain free from any restraints. Just create!

A positive is the passion you carry to make people's life better. A negative is that unfortunately you cannot always succeed in it.

Less is more.

Empathy and optimism. A stable hand is working miracles too.

My tools are my wood chisels.I have some special ones that I brought from the Middle East, from the masters of wood.

I trh not to think of time; throughout the years I realised that time is so relative that you should let yourself free from ot.

It can take anytime from two hours to a year depending on the complexity and tge research vehind the design.

What is your favourite design?

The one I am having now.

We have designers, Architects and fashion designers loving our products.

I am in love with product design for the moment, in particular handmade sculptures.

I am focusing on stationery supplies in particular in wooden sketching pencils for the moment but the ideas are infinite.

My wife and I are partners in life and partners at work, I am an Architect and she is an Arts Manager so we are complementing each other in design.

I have so many ongoing projects I would need another interview to discuss about them. More is coming and will be soon revealed.

Send me an email, call me on the phone directly, text me on Instagram, facebook, send me a letter. Let me here from you in any way.

Tell me about you!