Interviewe mat CTRC Design Consultant Ltd.

We both have over ten years experience in the interior design industry and our company was established in late 2015. We decided to start up our own business in order to achieve our ambition of design.

CT: When I was young, I particularly liked beautiful things, especially appreciating nice furniture and interior space. I admired designer’s works as they will delight and brighten up your daily life and make things better, this is the reason why I became a designer.

RC: I found that I was passionate in art after joining the high school tour art museum, by that time, I aimed my career towards something related.

We love to be designers from the bottom of our hearts and design has become part of our lives.

We do interior design. Although we are experienced in interior design and yet our company is still very new, we wish we could get more different categories and interesting projects in interior design to fulfill our ambition.

I wouldn't say we have become design legends already, as designers we must be keep moving forward by self-motivation and pay attention to the surroundings. This is where the ideas come from.

A good designer will accomplish what the client needs but great designers should understand the client and suggest your professional advice to achieve the very best result.

It is very personal to judge how good a certain design is. Some people may love it and some may hate it as everybody has their own opinion, so in order to evaluate good design it could be based on the majority of people which tend to like it.

Good design could change people’s habit.

We would design a cozy and comfortable house for our parents.

Design a dream house for ourselves.

Designers should always open wide their visions, design is boundless and unlimited imagination, we shouldn’t set a frame for ourselves.

George Yabu, Glenn Pushelberg and Peter Marino, their innate sense of materials and details of proportion are peerless.

We don’t think that we have a greatest design at the moment but we are proud of what we have done so far. Hopefully in the future we will have the perfect design project.

See more, think more, practice and accomplish.

We haven’t thought about this, but it would probably be something related.

Design can improve our world with better life and it is an attitude of our lifestyle.

In fact, we are a couple, we are helping each other along the way. Perhaps our support and understanding from family is very important as well.

What’s helped me as a designer is always putting 100% effort into my work, learning from mistakes and gaining experience from the past. Travelling is also very important such as if you want to create great designs you have to experience other great work and study it to get inspiration and see what the best is.

I don’t think we are design masters yet! We haven't had many obstacles to face but before starting our own company we felt that we didn't have full creative input. We now feel free to express ourselves through our work.

Works should be presented in a clear and attractive visual way, with a good presentation skill will help more.

We are continuing to do interior design projects, perhaps we will develop and create some more innovative designs. We are very excited about the future and what it may bring.

Majority of people could love and recognize our design.

Keep going to design innovation works and provide solutions to them.

A good design could make change from weakness to strength.

As we are a couple we have established our own company, we are excited about getting more upcoming jobs and facing the challenge together.

It feels very satisfying to be recognized for our work but we think there is always room for improvement in every project that we do.

Nowadays, we can find research and information from the internet or apps very easy, ordinary people they think they could do design by themselves, if designers couldn’t have certain recognition and reputation are very difficult in design industry.

We believe it is going to become more human oriented.

It really depends on the complexity of the project.

We always start a project with finding out what the client needs and our work ideas based around that.

Just keep thinking and thinking…

We believe that both are interacting with each other.

Technology is a media which helps us to present to our clients in order to understand our design concept much easier.

AutoCAD, SketchUp, PhotoShop, 3D Max, Illustrator etc...

Colour, materials and ambient are the way to express your outcome of the design, the variety of combination can achieve unexpected result.

What is your concept behind?

Seeing great designs or new product excites us, we like to pay attention to the details and that can give us inspiration to create great things ourselves.

Now we are the ideal partner for each other, we discuss and develop design together.

We inspire and encourage each other everyday whether it is in work or at home. We love to discuss and push each other to create better designs.

There are so many different books we find inspiration from its hard to pick. We believe even the smallest things around you in your daily life can affect your work not just design books.

By trying many different kinds of design projects, we have learnt to develop our skills through experience.

I don’t think we are famous now, it is good start and encouragement to receive the awards and recognition.

We don’t have any specific favorite colour as every colour has its own beauty, just depends on the combination and use of proportion. We like Hong Kong, Hong Kong is still a magnificent city especially the night view of Victoria Harbour.

When we see our project develop from beginning to end, it can feel like it’s our baby, so when the client gives positive feedback and loves it, that's what makes our day great. Appreciation and acknowledgement gives us motivation.

Not sure if it was obvious or not, just remembered I did funny and naughty things that were unusual.

Things are changing so fast now, it is difficult to foresee what will happen in the future. Yet we should keep abreast of the times.

We will continue to push ourselves to provide innovative and practical works, hopefully people will like it.

When I was growing up, I thought work was boring besides things that were related to design or art. I always had plenty of ideas in my mind and I wanted to create and accomplish them. The reason that I choose to be an interior design was because this is the category of work which involves a lot of design elements that I'm interest in and its more challenging. Such as graphic, proportion of detail, materials, furniture and lighting etc..

CTRC Design was established in late 2015 with my wife, it is a great encouragement for us that we won 2 Sliver Awards in A’ Design Award and Competition. As this is the first year that we applied international design competition since we started up our business.

Design is meaning everything for me.

You will see later, you can expect it.

When day dreaming.

Client oriented.

I feel anxious and hate people to interrupt me during the design process, once the concept has been completed I felt very excited immediately.

Look forward to receive feedbacks from client.

Never give up.

It has to be satisfied by both client and designer, a good design should find a balance between practical and aesthetic.

I think people are getting more and more aware of green and eco-friendly on design.

Aware of everything in my surroundings, keeping my vision wide open and now all data you can find on internet which is very convenient.

I do not agree to frame my design style, I think design is boundless and I will open wide for everything.

I live in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is an international city so I can try different style of design without limitation.

Companies should deliberately consider the advices or suggestions from designers regardless to the age or position. A good designer can be selected according to the job reference, their completed works could tell.