Interview with Yue Wai Yip, Tommy
I'm Tommy Yue and come from Hong Kong, I'm a branding, digital, product and environmental designer, I try to balance work and life, and then use my creative to help other people in need, e.g.
Design Legend Interview
23 April 2017
I'm graduated from Polytechnic University in Product analysis & engineering design.
In my high school year, a teacher told me that I had a design talent
I'm choose designer for work!
I'm doing web, branding, motion graphic, product, illustration at the same time!
More contact with new things, passionate in your love!
Good designer is bright, great designers far-reaching impact！
Good design can make people impression and energy and emotional.
Good design can make people happy, function, feeling, life better! Thats why everyone need invest in good design.
Impressive and unforgettable works.
My dream product have many ideas, e.g. Lamp, house product, playful product...
Focus, hard working and not afraid of lonely.
Steve Jobs, Philippe Starck, their design creative and flexible and motional.
I love industrial design, I really love mechanism, process and the change of society!
My greatest design call "Woodjobber" is my first belong to their own creation
Listen different people comment and suggestion, filter their message and improve.
Japanese chef, because I love Japanese food
I think 70% ideas is come form me.
Super Sun, she is my most important people, without she, no today of me.
My story and my experience.
Nobody believes my creation will be successful!
Can share to different platform, place, and exhibition.
I will created playful, functional, product for my next future.
Let my family and friends know that I can go my way, do not worry about me.
Often looking forward to their work
Kindness, love, emotion is indispensable of design elements
I learning new things about digital skills, drawing skills ...
Ha Ha, still haven't at this moment.
Digital technology + Traditional industry + environmental consideration
I think innovative is field is headed next.
I take around half year to one year.
I will hand sketch before do it in computer.
I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.
I think design sets the trends more than trends set the designs.
Technology can express my ideas quickly.
Adobe tools
These items can make me more focus in my creative.
I have no limit, because I have interest in every design projects
Maybe in these 2-3 months.
No any partner at this moment.
When I fill sad they're support me, when I feel alone they will give me love.
kenya hara! Designing Design
keep to contact new things and share with my friends.
Philippe Starck and kenya hara! I want to learn from them
I can present my work to Europe, is what I have been looking forward to. I feel Happy and dream come ture.
My favorite color is black, Japan is my love place, I really love Japanese food, I love summer, and love old branding e.g. BRAUN design
I have one ideas is come from candy, when I present my ideas the customer also taste I give them candy.
After my presentation they ask me my ideas is come from the candy? They told me unbelievable.
After my presentation they ask me my ideas is come from the candy? They told me unbelievable.
When everyone feels that I can not be a designer, I keep trying to keep learning and try
When I was a child, I was different from the average child, I like a person to create, painting, assembly model
Everything will be simple, technology, the emotions between people will diminish
I'm not only talent in illustration, My work include products, motion graphics, environmental, branding design...
Designer Interview
8 May 2017
My works include graphic, branding, product, environmental and product design, I love art and drawing when I was child, but my family told me I cannot study or work in design industry, because they doesn't know design meaning because they are traditional people, I'm part time study design course in Hong Kong.
Design meaning is can improve or make people life better and happy.
I love different type of design projects
My favourite design should product because I can join each step and process when I develop
Maybe character,
Paper and blue pencil.
When I listen music and I can focus in my creative.
I will more focus in production when I thinking the concept
I feel tense but I also feel happy in each design project
I feel tense in final stage, production is most important
Focus and keep leaning
Maybe in design concept
Can apply my design to help different people need is my honour
Digital, technical, and traditional combine maybe is future of design direction
My last exhibition 2016 in Hong Kong, My next planning maybe in Japan
My inspiration come form my live, environmental, and love.
My style is no limit, simple and vary.
I live in Hong Kong, its a very busy and high speed place. In Hong Kong everyday in change so haven't any special cultural. Maybe affects my design can more flexible
I try to work with different interesting projects and make my company portfolio have different style
Maybe can focus in creative world and enjoy the works
Before start in computer works I also enjoy hand sketch each project idea.
Lamp, Coffee, Music, flower, deco
Actually I have very busy I will work with different people and join different meeting, after daily work I still working at home
enjoy the work and keep learning interest things
Design industry is interesting work but it also very hard working
Don't limit on your thinking
Keep to train up your computer skills
I will use Paper, blue pencil, computer and Adobe tools when I design
Keep to update my timeline and schedule, remind the deadline
Almost 1 year for environmental project
Are you okay?
Advertising company experience is most important
Start JG,
Branding design, because I can create full story in branding design
Create my character to product
I worked in myself at this moment
Yes, I have planning for my character to be a story book
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