We major is Fine Arts. We used to want to become a good artist, but this idea changed after graduating from university, because we accessed spatial design by chance and thought it to be interesting and of great help for…
01Could you please tell us about your experience as a designer, artist, architect or creator?
We major is Fine Arts. We used to want to become a good artist, but this idea changed after graduating from university, because we accessed spatial design by chance and thought it to be interesting and of great help for our easel painting and spatial space installation works of art.
02How did you become a designer?
After graduated from university,, we designed some residential and real estate projects, which gained a lot of popularity and won some good reputation in the industry, so we therefore switched toward this direction and became a designer.
03What are your priorities, technique and style when designing?
Our design is carried out in line with respecting nature and the environment, showcase cultural literacy and spiritual pursuit behind the space. mainly in a way of ‘seclusion ’. That is to reduce human intervention, whilst accentuating nature, keeping a mentality of humbleness to the environment. An excellent design must have souls. We infiltrate design into our lives. Let the form of this design reveal itself faintly. What we are trying to do is to make design disappear and let it go back to humanity itself. This is also a process that makes tangible into intangible.
04Which emotions do you feel when designing?
There is an opportunity to release our imaginary space, which is exciting for us.
05What particular aspects of your background shaped you as a designer?
The background of being an artist has influenced our design.
06What is your growth path? What are your future plans? What is your dream design project?
Learn from our failures.we have no any planning for our future, but we believe God will lead us forward. We hope to be able to get the opportunity to design a church. It is not only our dream, but also in connection with our beliefs.
07What are your advices to designers who are at the beginning of their career?
Feel the life and full of passion to design, constantly self-denial, self-transcendence.
08You are truly successful as a designer, what do you suggest to fellow designers, artists and architects?
Thinking about design projects and art works can't just be think about the form, more importantly it's to think about that let the space filling the soul. This is a process that makes tangible design intangible. This is what we think of as the highest state.
09What is your day to day look like?
We live a simple life every day. Think about the design or walk outside during the day, take care of the child and meeting with the company in Beijing at night. We also go to the church on weekend.
10How do you keep up with latest design trends? To what extent do design trends matter?
We focus on the needs of current society, but we don't pursue state of art design trends.
11How do you know if a product or project is well designed? How do you define good design?
Design quality is reflected in whether the design works showcase cultural literacy and spiritual pursuit behind the space. An excellent design must have souls.
12How do you decide if your design is ready?
Every corner of the space has already presented the perfect state, the primary and secondary relations in the space also dealt with very reasonable, the mood in the space also expressed fully. At this point, the space design can be finished.
13What is your biggest design work?
Blue Lake House & Blue Lake Restaurant
14Who is your favourite designer?
We seek inspiration and absorb nutrients more from the realm of art. The artists we admire are more in number than the designers we admire, and these include the ancient Chinese artists Badashanren (pseudonym for Zhu Da) and Xuwei as well as the Spanish Salvador Dali, Max Beckmann, representative figure of German Expressionism, and others.
15Would you tell us a bit about your lifestyle and culture?
We use artistic angle to think; to stand in the angle of the Christian faith to observe the world and our life state. We also on our's eastern culture background to locate our own aesthetic direction.
16Would you tell us more about your work culture and business philosophy?
We focused on integrating life into our design, allowing our spiritual design to be absorbed into nature. Our ultimate pursuit is to appreciate, embrace and consider nature in our designs.
17What are your philanthropic contributions to society as a designer, artist and architect?
Design a novel, quality space that should be capable to maximize customer benefits and truly help make their dreams come true. In the meantime, it is our hope to showcase feelings of holiness, simplicity and intangibility in every space we design, thus reflecting the supreme spirit of God through our space.
18What positive experiences you had when you attend the A' Design Award?
I think it is a good opportunity to communicate with each other.
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We major is Fine Arts. We used to want to become a good artist, but this idea changed after graduating from college, because we accessed spatial design by chance and thought it to be interesting and of great help for…
01Could you please tell us a bit about your design background and education?
We major is Fine Arts. We used to want to become a good artist, but this idea changed after graduating from college, because we accessed spatial design by chance and thought it to be interesting and of great help for our easel painting and spatial space installation works of art. Then later, we designed some residential and real estate projects, which gained a lot of popularity and won some good reputation in the industry, so we therefore switched toward this direction and became a designer.
02What motivates you to design in general, why did you become a designer?
Design makes the ambiance better and more comfortable, and this is one motivation for us becoming designers.
03Did you choose to become a designer, or you were forced to become one?
Yes, when we realized that design is interesting, we chose to become designers.
04What do you design, what type of designs do you wish to design more of?
Our design stresses on combining humanities and nature. We wish to do more in the design that combines well the space and the natural environment.
05What should young designers do to become a design legend like you?
Have a correct understanding of oneself, value every chance with patience, and do a good job in every design.
06What distinguishes between a good designer and a great designer?
A good designer provides his client with a satisfactory design, while a great designer understands himself by the design done for his client and uses his design to elevate and change people’s aesthetic faculties and spiritual taste.
07What makes a good design a really good design, how do you evaluate good design?
A good design is one that is soul-touching and soul-purifying.
08What is the value of good design? Why should everyone invest in good design?
Design is productivity. A good design changes the mentality and finds the value in environment and space. Everybody may appreciate better the beauty of life from design.
09What would you design and who would you design for if you had the time?
The clients who appreciate our design and have a very high requirement for design style and taste.
10What is the dream project you haven't yet had time to realize?
Design a Church.
11What is your secret recipe of success in design, what is your secret ingredient?
Work diligently, be mindful of every detail in design, and enjoy design and work.
12Who are some other design masters and legends you get inspired from?
Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe.
13What are your favorite designs by other designers, why do you like them?
Sagrada Familia by Antoni Gaudi. This building draws quite some of its shapes from natural forms, and displays from its interior to exterior both imagination and holy and pure sacredness.
14What is your greatest design, which aspects of that design makes you think it is great?
The Fire of Holy Spirit. Because this design was very pure to find the inner spiritual pursuit and belief of people. It was pure without any business purpose at all.
15How could people improve themselves to be better designers, what did you do?
One should elevate their cultivation in art and culture, one should enhance their taste of art, and one should have faith.
16If you hadn't become a designer, what would you have done?
I reckon that we would be artists or painters.
17How do you define design, what is design for you?
Design represents a sort of life that is full of art and imagination.
18Who helped you to reach these heights, who was your biggest supporter?
We, as partners in both life and work, are the biggest supporter and encouraging force to each other.
19What helped you to become a great designer?
Unyielding determination, humble and absorptive attitude.
20What were the obstacles you faced before becoming a design master?
Self-righteousness, arrogance, and self-importance
21How do you think designers should present their work?
A good design shall be shared.
22What's your next design project, what should we expect from you in future?
Our next project is a restaurant and it covers interior design. The project, when completed, may hopefully become a symbol of the integration between building and environment.
23What's your ultimate goal as a designer?
Let people touch the invisible spiritual world by means of visible design.
24What people expect from an esteemed designer such as yourself?
To get more spiritual enjoyment from a good design.
25How does design help create a better society?
A good design changes the mentality and the way of life and discovers the value in environment and space. A good design enables people to enjoy more of life and to elevate their new understanding and pursuit in spirit and culture.
26What are you currently working on that you are especially excited about?
We are working on a restaurant, the work incorporating it's interior design. We are anticipating its completion.
27Which design projects gave you the most satisfaction, why?
Blue Lake House & Blue Lake Restaurant, BaoDing XinHua Bookstore, The Fire Of Holy Spirit, Blooming Restaurant. These were our most satisfactory works. Because these works got rid of the simple material expression, but made more pursuit and exploration in the aspect of human spiritual demand.
28What would you like to see changed in design industry in the coming years?
I wish future designs will respect nature more, coexist with nature, get rid of human arrogance and self-importance, and become humble designs.
29Where do you think the design field is headed next?
We believe the design field is to develop towards being people-oriented, and towards integration and symbiosis between human and nature.
30How long does it take you to finalize a design project?
It varies from half a year to several years.
31When you have a new design project, where do you start?
We begin with studying its neighboring environment, its requirements and positioning, and its strengths and weaknesses. Next, we would determine the design style and the plan layout.
32What is your life motto as a designer?
Spiritual Design, Poetic Expression.
33Do you think design sets the trends or trends set the designs?
We think they interact with each other, and both are possible.
34What is the role of technology when you design?
Technology plays a secondary role, and the expression of mind is the dominant force.
35What kind of design software and equipment do you use in your work?
CAD, PhotoShop, 3DMAX, SketchUp, etc.
36What is the role of the color, materials and ambient in design?
Very important. They are inseparable from design and form.
37What do you wish people to ask about your design?
We wish they would be more attentive to the spiritual request and cultural content our design projects seek to express.
38When you see a new great design or product what comes into your mind?
Very excited, and satisfied in both heart and spirit.
39Who is your ideal design partner? Do you believe in co-design?
Yi Chen. Yes, we have always been co-designers.
40Which people you interacted had the most influence on your design?
God. Reading the Bible gives us quite many inspirations.
41Which books you read had the most effect on your design?
The Holy Bible.
42How did you develop your skills as a master designer?
Never stop to learn from nature, life, and culture.
43Irrelative of time and space, who you would want to meet, talk and discuss with?
Myself in childhood and myself in old age, discussing with the former the trouble and pleasure of growing up and the latter the meaning and experience of life.
44How do you feel about all the awards and recognition you had, is it hard to be famous?
We are pleased to receive these awards. It gives a great stimulation to us if our design projects are recognized by professionals in this community. I must say our road of design is not without bumpiness. But, we believe our awards all came so naturally because we have always been trying to do good designs, without caring about the likelihood of becoming famous and receiving awards.
45What is your favorite color, place, food, season, thing and brand?
Orange, sea, ice cream, summer, and plant. My favorite brand is Alexander McQueen.
46Please tell us a little memoir, a funny thing you had experienced as a designer?
Once, we were asked to design an office for an entrepreneur, who appeared to be a person of the traditional type, not having much demand on design and fashion at the start of our work. When the project was completed, he had changed much, from dressing to hairdo, becoming much more avant-garde and fashionable. He said it was our design that had changed him.
47What makes your day great as a designer, how do you motivate yourself?
A delicious supper after a day of work.
48When you were a little child, was it obvious that you would become a great designer?
Not exactly. Actually, we have always been wanting to become great artists.
49What do you think about future; what do you see will happen in thousand years from now?
We have no idea what will happen and only God knows what would happen in a thousand years from now. We have entrusted everything to God, under whose guidance we perform our duty and work of the day.
50Please tell us anything you wish your fans to know about you, your design and anything else?
A good design must be a design with a soul. Our design took an essential and great leap after we had a faith.
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We major is Fine Arts. We used to want to become a good artist, but this idea changed after graduating from college, because we accessed spatial design by chance and thought it to be interesting and of great help for…
01Could you please tell us more about your art and design background? What made you become an artist/designer? Have you always wanted to be a designer?
We major is Fine Arts. We used to want to become a good artist, but this idea changed after graduating from college, because we accessed spatial design by chance and thought it to be interesting and of great help for our easel painting and spatial space installation works of art. Then later, we designed some residential and real estate projects, which gained a lot of popularity and won some good reputation in the industry, so we therefore switched toward this direction and became a designer.
02Can you tell us more about your company / design studio?
Expressing faith and cherishing the soul through space with undying spirituality as part of its ultimate spiritual journey, Beijing Fenghemuchen Space Design is a design company that pushes for cultural extension and artistic communication while fully respecting spiritual creativity as well as the balanced relationship between man and space.
03What is "design" for you?
Design represents a sort of life that is full of art and imagination.
04What kinds of works do you like designing most?
Making our something dreaming come true.
05What is your most favorite design, could you please tell more about it?
Sagrada Familia by Antoni Gaudi. This building draws quite some of its shapes from natural forms, and displays from its interior to exterior both imagination and holy and pure sacredness.
06What was the first thing you designed for a company?
We begin with studying its neighboring environment, its requirements and positioning, and its strengths and weaknesses. Next, we would determine the design style and the plan layout.
07When do you feel the most creative?
When we are in nature or in oline.
08Which aspects of a design do you focus more during designing?
Our design foucs more on combining humanities and nature.
09What kind of emotions do you feel when you design?
Happy, excited, stressful and so on.
10What kind of emotions do you feel when your designs are realized?
Very excited, and satisfied in both heart and spirit.
11What makes a design successful?
Work diligently.
12When judging a design as good or bad, which aspects do you consider first?
A good design is one that is soul-touching and soul-purifying.
13From your point of view, what are the responsibilities of a designer for society and environment?
Try our best to combine well the space and the natural environment.
14How do you think the "design field" is evolving? What is the future of design?
We believe the design field is to develop towards being people-oriented, and towards integration and symbiosis between human and nature.
15When was your last exhibition and where was it? And when do you want to hold your next exhibition?
We participated in Venice Design 2018 this year. Our project, The Fire Of Holy, is exhibiting in Venice from May to November in 2018. The next exhibition is no plan now.
16Where does the design inspiration for your works come from? How do you feed your creativity? What are your sources of inspirations?
From nature, life, and culture. Keep on learning to feed our creativity. May be everything.
17How would you describe your design style? What made you explore more this style and what are the main characteristics of your style? What's your approach to design?
Our design stresses on combining humanities and nature. We wish to do more in the design that combines well the space and the natural environment. Work diligently, be mindful of every detail in design, and enjoy design and work.
18Where do you live? Do you feel the cultural heritage of your country affects your designs? What are the pros and cons during designing as a result of living in your country?
Vancouver, Canada. Yes, it is. The cultural heritage will not only gives us sources of inspirations but also stifles the thoughts.
19How do you work with companies?
We will choose appropriate style according to the requirements.
20What are your suggestions to companies for working with a designer? How can companies select a good designer?
Respecting for designers' thoughts. A good designer provides his client with a satisfactory design.
21Can you talk a little about your design process?
We will deeply understand the customers requirements, and then do an accurate positioning for project. Then we will discuss, conceive and design the project. Further complete and execute the project after communicating with the clients.
22What are 5 of your favorite design items at home?
We like and collect three lamps from America in the 1950s and two tea tables from Indonesia.
23Can you describe a day in your life?
Our daily life is actually very simple. We usually walk in the wild, do design and paint during the day while meet and communicate with company colleagues and Party A on the project in the evening. We also need to take care of our children.
24Could you please share some pearls of wisdom for young designers? What are your suggestions to young, up and coming designers?
Work diligently, be mindful of every detail in design, and enjoy design and work.
25From your perspective, what would you say are some positives and negatives of being a designer?
Design is interesting and makes the ambiance better and more comfortable but it also spends a lot of time in our life.
26What is your "golden rule" in design?
Unyielding determination, humble and absorptive attitude.
27What skills are most important for a designer?
Enjoying the beauty.
28Which tools do you use during design? What is inside your toolbox? Such as software, application, hardware, books, sources of inspiration etc.?
CAD, PhotoShop, 3DMAX, SketchUp, etc.
29Designing can sometimes be a really time consuming task, how do you manage your time?
Doing what when it should be in it's time.
30How long does it take to design an object from beginning to end?
It varies from half a year to several years.
31What is the most frequently asked question to you, as a designer?
Why do you think so?
32What was your most important job experience?
The Fire of Holy Spirit. Because this design was very pure to find the inner spiritual pursuit and belief of people. It was pure without any business purpose at all.
33Who are some of your clients?
Companies and privates.
34What type of design work do you enjoy the most and why?
The design respects nature more, coexist with nature. It's our wish.
35What are your future plans? What is next for you?
I wish future designs will respect nature more, coexist with nature, get rid of human arrogance and self-importance, and become humble designs.
36Do you work as a team, or do you develop your designs yourself?
Yes, we work as a team. Muchen Zhang and I were responsible for working out plans, with others tasked to flesh out and follow through them.
37Do you have any works-in-progress being designed that you would like to talk about?
A' Design Award គឺជាពានរង្វាន់រចនាល្អអន្តរជាតិដែលវាយតម្លៃដោយគណៈកម្មការ។ ចូលរួមក្នុង A' Design Award ដើម្បីទទួលបានឱកាសក្នុងការទទួលស្គាល់ដោយគុណសម្បត្តិ ទទួលបានកិត្តិនាម កិត្តិយស និងការផ្សព្វផ្សាយសម្រាប់ការងាររបស់អ្នក។ ដាក់ស្នាដៃរបស់អ្នកសម្រាប់ A' Design Award ហើយប្រកួតប្រជែងដើម្បីឈ្នះ A' Design Prize ដ៏គោរពរាប់អាន។
