In this specific field of audio equipment design we are working about nine years. Two of our team members have artistic education and one has technical education.
01Could you please tell us about your experience as a designer, artist, architect or creator?
In this specific field of audio equipment design we are working about nine years. Two of our team members have artistic education and one has technical education.
02How did you become a designer?
It was an internal drive to be a designers and creators. All of our team members have a natural desire to create.
03What are your priorities, technique and style when designing?
The most important aspects when designing products are: research of the idea, novelty and ergonomics. First we start from sketches by hand and then we rely on digital tools. We make detailed views with computer programs. After that comes a physical 3D printed prototypes.
04Which emotions do you feel when designing?
When designing a new product we feel a sense of self-knowledge. Most exiting phase of the design process is the sense of having the final product finished. Designing fulfils us with new experiences with every new product. It is a pleasure to create something new that surprises people.
05What particular aspects of your background shaped you as a designer?
One of our team members has technical education and that influenced other team members as well, while designing technically complicated objects. This experience is very important for product designer to understand everything in technical details of your product and it will be a big benefit in the future projects.
06What is your growth path? What are your future plans? What is your dream design project?
Our company growth path is to involve some new products in our product line. Our future plans is to create other products of highest quality audio equipment, like amplifiers. We always have ideas that we are working on and we hope to realize them soon.
07What are your advices to designers who are at the beginning of their career?
The main advice for young designers is to work and improve your skills every day. And don’t forget to study your environment and nature as the main sources of ideas.
08You are truly successful as a designer, what do you suggest to fellow designers, artists and architects?
Don’t be afraid of unexpected decisions and ideas, that’s how new things shows up, even at the beginning it may look strange.
09How do you keep up with latest design trends? To what extent do design trends matter?
We are always studying latest design trends, but we have our own style and we try to develop this style in our product family.
10How do you know if a product or project is well designed? How do you define good design?
The main aspect of good design is visual attractiveness and it’s adaptation in the environment as an art accent. Common mistake in a design is unnecessary details and solutions.
11How do you decide if your design is ready?
We say that our product is ready when we put it on the market. And after that we are not making any design changes. Then we know from our customers that our product design is successful or not. The other way to make sure that our design is good is to participate in a design competitions, where you can see the other professional designers opinions about your product design.
12What is your biggest design work?
Our greatest design is a turntable 'Muse 3C'. Recognition and winning other worldwide design contests like 'IF Design Award' and 'Red Dot Design Award' makes us think that this design is great.
13Who is your favourite designer?
Leonardo da Vinci.
14Would you tell us a bit about your lifestyle and culture?
Music takes a big part of our creative process. We are working in highest quality audio equipment design so the music is inseparable part of our work. We live in Lithuania, Kaunas city which is in center of our country. Sometimes we feel that cultural heritage of our country affects some design solutions.
15Would you tell us more about your work culture and business philosophy?
We work as a team, because in this specific audio equipment design field it is necessary to have in your team members with different education and point of view. Then we can complement each other’s knowledge and create really good products.
16What positive experiences you had when you attend the A' Design Award?
Three main benefits of participating to A’ Design Award competition is: recognition, experience to talk about our product design and opportunity to be evaluated by the professional designers. This competition is an impact to create better designs. We are happy and proud to be a designers of the day.
디자인 레전드 인터뷰
27 질문
Two of our team members have artistic education and one has technical education.
01Could you please tell us a bit about your design background and education?
Two of our team members have artistic education and one has technical education.
02What motivates you to design in general, why did you become a designer?
Natural desire to create objects and our ideas realization.
03Did you choose to become a designer, or you were forced to become one?
We chose to become designers.
04What do you design, what type of designs do you wish to design more of?
We design highest quality audio equipment and we are satisfied working in this field and we would like to design a lot of objects of this kind of equipment.
05What should young designers do to become a design legend like you?
Work on your skills as a designer and study your environment and nature which inspires to create.
06What makes a good design a really good design, how do you evaluate good design?
Really good design is when there is no space for criticism.
07What is the value of good design? Why should everyone invest in good design?
Good design can raise up a value of an object with its quality and visual comfort. That is why everyone should invest in good design.
08What is your secret recipe of success in design, what is your secret ingredient?
Our secret ingredient is emotions in our designs which excites our potential clients.
09Who are some other design masters and legends you get inspired from?
Leonardo da Vinci.
10What is your greatest design, which aspects of that design makes you think it is great?
Our greatest design is a turntable 'Muse 3C'. Recognition and winning other worldwide design contests like 'IF Design Award' and 'Red Dot Design Award' makes us think that this design is great.
11How could people improve themselves to be better designers, what did you do?
People can improve themselves to be better designers with everyday work in that direction. That is what we do. The constant creative process is a guarantee of success.
12How do you define design, what is design for you?
Design is a challenge to create better than we had created yesterday.
13What helped you to become a great designer?
Education, everyday work and a little bit of talent.
14What's your ultimate goal as a designer?
To provide satisfaction with our designs.
15What people expect from an esteemed designer such as yourself?
They expect better design than we created already.
16Which design projects gave you the most satisfaction, why?
The most satisfaction gave us those works which were marked as best designs in worldwide design awards. It means that we are at the right way and our designs are really good.
17What would you like to see changed in design industry in the coming years?
Sometimes good design objects are very expensive for their expensive materials and technologies that are used. We would like that best design object would be more affordable for customers with lower income.
18How long does it take you to finalize a design project?
It depends on complexity of a design project.
19When you have a new design project, where do you start?
We start at the search of an idea of design.
20What is your life motto as a designer?
To surprise with unexpected solutions.
21What is the role of technology when you design?
The role of technology is one of the most important aspects in our products. To achieve best quality of product it is necessary to use best materials and processing of them.
22What kind of design software and equipment do you use in your work?
The main software that we use is Solid Works.
23What is the role of the color, materials and ambient in design?
Choosing right colors and best materials is very important role which have a huge impact to designs.
24Who is your ideal design partner? Do you believe in co-design?
We think that our design team members are ideal partners. We believe in co-design, because it is advantage in creating complexed design objects.
25How did you develop your skills as a master designer?
We master our skills with everyday work in our design field.
26Irrelative of time and space, who you would want to meet, talk and discuss with?
With Leonardo da Vinci and Japanese art masters of 16 – 19 century.
27How do you feel about all the awards and recognition you had, is it hard to be famous?
Every award and recognition adds additional responsibility to create better designs.
디자이너 인터뷰
35 질문
It is a small company established in 2010 in Lithuania. Company specializes in highest quality audio equipment products – turntables, tonearms and their accessories. Company has design department.
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?
A natural desire to create made us to become a designers.
02Can you tell us more about your company / design studio?
It is a small company established in 2010 in Lithuania. Company specializes in highest quality audio equipment products – turntables, tonearms and their accessories. Company has design department.
03What is "design" for you?
Design is a challenge to create better than we had created yesterday.
04What kinds of works do you like designing most?
Highest quality audio equipment.
05What is your most favorite design, could you please tell more about it?
Technical minimalism which reflects in audio equipment design of 1935 – 1939 years and 1980 – 1989 years periods.
06What was the first thing you designed for a company?
The firs design of our company was a tonearm called 'Reed 2A'.
07What is your favorite material / platform / technology?
Natural and durable materials are our favorite.
08When do you feel the most creative?
We feel the most creative when we receive recognition for ours designs.
09Which aspects of a design do you focus more during designing?
During designing we are focusing on novelty and ergonomics.
10What kind of emotions do you feel when you design?
A sense of self-knowledge.
11What kind of emotions do you feel when your designs are realized?
Happiness and satisfaction.
12What makes a design successful?
Unexpected solution makes a design successful.
13When judging a design as good or bad, which aspects do you consider first?
Visual attractiveness and it’s adaptation in the environment as an art accent.
14From your point of view, what are the responsibilities of a designer for society and environment?
Do not pollute the environment with bad design solutions.
15How do you think the "design field" is evolving? What is the future of design?
Design field is evolving to functional minimalism. Future of design is to reject unnecessary details.
16When was your last exhibition and where was it? And when do you want to hold your next exhibition?
Our last exhibition was Audio Show Oto-Ten 2018 in Japan. Now we are planning to participate at Munich High End show at Munich, Germany 2019m.
17Where does the design inspiration for your works come from? How do you feed your creativity? What are your sources of inspirations?
Inspiration of our works comes from nature study.
18How 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?
Art deco and Art Nouveau are our design styles. Natural wavy lines made us to explore these styles and to apply these styles some characteristics in our designs.
19Where 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?
We live in Lithuania. We feel that cultural heritage of our country affects some of ours design solutions.
20Can you talk a little about your design process?
Our design process is like climbing into the mountain, and at the same time already thinking about next higher mountain.
21Can you describe a day in your life?
A day is a gift full of surprises. And with every day this gift is becoming bigger.
22From your perspective, what would you say are some positives and negatives of being a designer?
Positive points of designer are a possibility of creating something unseen, creative process, recognition, reward. But at the same time creative process is complicated and it has some creative holes.
23What is your "golden rule" in design?
Effort is not a result. The result must satisfy yourself at first and then there is a bigger possibility that it will satisfy your client.
24What skills are most important for a designer?
The most important skills of designer are: to have visual sensibility, dimensional/spatial thinking and ability to apply this.
25Which tools do you use during design? What is inside your toolbox? Such as software, application, hardware, books, sources of inspiration etc.?
The main toon is white plane paper and pencil. After that goes Solid Works software. The main inspirations source is nature.
26Designing can sometimes be a really time consuming task, how do you manage your time?
Mostly we work with few projects at the same time.
27How long does it take to design an object from beginning to end?
It depends on what complexity an object is.
28What is the most frequently asked question to you, as a designer?
The most frequently question is how much our products costs.
29What was your most important job experience?
The most important job experience for us is collective creation.
30Who are some of your clients?
Our client is a true audio passionate.
31What type of design work do you enjoy the most and why?
Objects of controlled minimalism we enjoy the most for their simple form functionality.
32What are your future plans? What is next for you?
Our future plan is to influence as much as we can young designers to create new designs.
33Do you work as a team, or do you develop your designs yourself?
We work as a team. This is the best way to learn new things from each other and to improve our selves as a team and as a personal designer as well.
34Do you have any works-in-progress being designed that you would like to talk about?
We always have new works and new ideas, but we will talk about them when they will be realized.
35How can people contact you?
People can contact us at our website www.reed.lt
계속 읽기
더 많은 디자이너 인터뷰
designers.org 인터뷰를 읽고 더 많은 수상 디자이너들의 철학, 창작 과정 및 작품을 알아보세요.
A' Design Award는 우수한 디자인을 위한 국제 심사 어워드입니다. A' Design Award에 참가하여 능력 기반의 인정을 받고, 명성과 권위, 그리고 작품의 홍보 기회를 얻으세요. 작품을 A' Design Award에 출품하고 탐나는 A' Design Prize를 향해 경쟁하세요.