Interviews with Zhifeng Xu

Design logic, function and details.

Reaching to wider audience and crack for more rigid municipal facilities in China.

Commissioned under a street focus design festival.

Yes, it's available on the market per-order.

Coming from architectural background, working on product design could stimulate with different disciplines.

I don't aware, but maybe unconsciously?

The pedestrian, sanitation workers and random smokers, or myself and you?

More details control and material/colour applying.

Couldn't find a better one, so very instant.

Modest but cute?

There's some kind of tune up with the vendor.

I don't know what's the notion of technology, computer software? of course, it make accurate and rational with highly efficiency.

I don't think so.

Mainly on the hinge part, either for the aesthetic appealing or robust for durability.

I think it's also very efficient way of copyright protection.

I learnt more after the design by constant observing the problems come out after it's placing and in service on street.

Oh, no, already a lot, thanks.

I established my design studio in 2013, by very occasion for issue official invoices, because freelancing was and is not encouraged in China, once it set up, it also changed my mode immediately.

An efficient solution with your signature on.

All kinds, or different kinds, and small scales.

SSS Litter Bin and every new designed project: )

A gallery extension.

Metal>concrete>wood.

Never. Yes.

Concept and details.

Supper rational.

Excited beneath my skin.

Good communication and trusts with limited budget.

Good photography?

Cost efficiency and function sustainability.

AI and parametric design? and small anti-design design?

Never thought about it.

City streets I live, exhibitions I went through, and all kind of medias around me.

Maybe I can better answer myself next year, I don't see a style yet, and I am not very hurry for it, let it be naturally visible.

Shanghai is my base for 15 years, it's been constantly great during the years, you seen never not enough destructions and constructions, it has the history of international fusion. The pro is you always feel there's possibilities, and the con is this process might take actually longer than it should be.

Project based.

It very hard to create the trusts, and different designer has very different characters/styles, so match is also very important.

Mental construction with computer simulation adjustment.

My lighter, Macbook Pro, my bag, my own designed light.

Coffee break the day, following a cigarette, that's my day.

I am young designer, stay young is my advices.

You looks rich but you never the rich.

If there's no a platinum rule exists is the golden rule.

Language, perception, vision.

Sketchup+AI

Good question, sense of obligation and enjoy what you are doing, or choose what you enjoy to do.

A week or 2.

How my ideas constructed or started, maybe.

Working as representative and came across many manufacturers around Shanghai is very beneficial.

With clear needs and contexts.

No concrete plans, work with what comes to me for the moment.

Mostly myself.

No the moment.

Email, phonecall, wechat and other social medias.