Mohamad ali Vadood

My father used to work in industry. So, since I were a child, simple tools were kind of my playthings. My elder brother helped me take the first steps as a child, game-wise, and as for my mother, she would always support my ideas as a kid and take them serious. When I was a teenager, I would make my toys himself and have fun with my playmates who were usually fascinated by my invented toys. School used to offer me a mundane existence and I always thought I could make a better use of my time out of school. I was able to get my hands on a load of good wood, due to my geography, and as a result I got to like it. Through a television program, I realised there were carving workshops in another city. So, I traveled there and spent a year training with special tools and making inlay forms. On my return, I opened my own workshop and after a while, was invited to work for the Cultural Heritage Organization. At the Institute of Traditional Arts of the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization, I had the opportunity to draw on the experiences of longtime professors of different fields of design and traditional arts. And then I was elected as the head of the Wood Arts Workshop at that institute. At the same time, due to my artistic and research activities, I was honoured to receive first-rate art from the Supreme Council of Culture of Iran. It was when I was invited to teach by the art universities. In all of these years, I believed I have in fact experienced a real on-the-job training process and these words are actually the record of the training I have been through.

Well, I am the chief manager at Vadood's Wood Arts which is a complex art and cultural institution. We work with the Ministry of Cultural Heritage in the research department and with different universities in education. We restore artworks for museums and collectibles and organise annual exhibitions by creating specific artworks. For museums and collectibles we repair artworks And we organize annual exhibitions by creating specific artworks

There are times I gets a kind of feeling that sounds quite confusing and different, without I knowing what it exactly is. I feel as I may be aroused by what I have seen, heard, read, touched or even smelled, or any other stimulants. Whatever way it strikes me, it grows inside me, makes me involved all my time, and when it is the time, it rises out from my inside and gets born. I find it a fresh design with a happy birth.

I go on with life; use good things that have been made before, and when those can no longer be the help to the things I want to do, I get started. Sometimes I design a new tool or a new technique. I might even create a new design to express an unknown feeling at times. I adore doing any designs for the sake of life.

Forest Heart is the design he has nominated for the A Design Award in 2020. This work is the result of a great discovery in designing. This work shows we can see the nature better, think more of what we see and create links between ourselves and our nature. Along with doing a beautiful design, this is a lifestyle, and so it is my favourite design. There are moments he lives with it, and in these moments he neither wants to be overpowered by nature nor want to overcome it, but he wants to be in harmony with nature.

For the interior of the car Unimak, one of the products of a Benz company owned by a tuning group in Iran, he designed the console, dashboard, and other parts with beech wood which which turned out to be very interesting.

Of course, wood has everything for me at the same time, but I'm also interested in metal, and especially when these two (wood and metal) are interconnected, there could be certain tools which can help us do whatever we wish. I like hand tools more as I suppose they make us stronger and more skilled, and above all it is so much fun working with them. I use technology only when it is time to shorten a project.

Usually when something is not so clear to me and I think I can not do it, or it sounds weird to me, I just get started thinking, experimenting, doing everything about it until I get to feel that I can do it, no matter how small, then all of a sudden something intruiging happens and things begin to go well. In the end, when the job is done in its best way, everyone says, oh what creativity!

Well, I look at the designs others have made and sound original to me. Then try to figure out what has been the path which has come to that notion and then say Bravo! It is the time I think to myself how I could improve that design and do my best to find a way and do something noone else has actually done to it. It may be related to the beauty of the work, to its use or its concept.

At first, I get confused, then I get frustrated, and all of a sudden something springs to my mind. After struggling with the new idea, if I find the solution, I will rejoice, and if not, it starts again from the beginning until I get my hands on the answer.

The very first thing is that I will find myself really, really excited and would like to show it to others. But after a while, I get to think well, I have to do better.

Well, it's a long story, a full life story. However, in short I can say we should look at what nature does for as long as we can, and of that think about points which give us joy. We should keep watching until we start feeling we know evey sinlge part of it. It is when we will find one thing more attractive than others. In the second step, we should think of everything attractive we have discovered and start imitating nature. For instance, paint it, or make a replica. As for the final step, when we have actually perceived the beauty and attractiveness of something, we will be able to dominate it, and integrate a couple of such gorgous stuff with each other and make a fresh extract. Seeing, analysing and experiencing are to me the three sides of the triangle of success in design.

Concept, application, and visual beauty. Any idea or design can be good when it comes to balancing these three.

A designer is, in fact, someone who can see things that do not exist but can actually have being. A designer recognises the needs of their community and improves the environment by discovering solutions to those problems.

When I look at the path design has paved so far and its impact on human life, I feel human beings are defeated by nature, and this is nature having guided their way of life. Then man, with his understanding, tried to harmonise with nature, and succeeded. The harmony with nature gave man the power to overcome. However, he used this power in the wrong way. Humans have been designing for years only to keep getting over nature which is a win-lose approach. Whereas, we should go back to the harmony with nature as it is a win-win approach. Designing to overcome will just lead to the destruction of nature and this is of course wrong. I can only wish the future of design would go in harmony with nature and it would be a basic attitude. Amen!

My last exhibition was at the Academy of Arts and Culture of Iran. I hope my next exhibition will be held at the A Design Award in Italy.

Sometimes I get inspired by my problems or others' or by the beautiful spots I catch from nature. And there are times that concepts and emotions interacted with people help me.

I tend to have a naturalistic style in my design. I believe the foundation of everything is there in nature. The main feature and attitude of my design is to show a new horizon of ability and path to a harmony with pristine nature in order to achieve visual expression.

I live in Iran and here we speak the language of poetry, walk on carpets with cosmic motifs and dwel in cities that are thousands of years old. I do my best to keep up with the thinking and cultural heritage of my country and wish my country and its history will always be one of the honours of human civilization.

The most important thing for a designer is to make their design and thought understood. This adds to the designer's passion for more work and more creativity. The feeling of satisfaction and content would be the best pay to a designer. Companies first need to know exactly what they want and then find the right designer to help them meet their needs. To do that they should make attempts to get to know such a right designer after getting their hands on them and also to realise them. In this way this company will always have a bubbling spring of ideas.

The design I have presented is the result of a new approach and style in wood marquetry. In earlier time, more attention was paid to the colours and tonalities of the wood used in maquetry. Each piece was selected as a stain of colour, cut, and would make an image along with other pieces. In the way that I have presented here, in addition to the natural colour and tone of the wood, there is a special emphasis on other visual phenomena of this natural supply such as lines, textures, transparency and opacity. In my method which called Naqshbandi (Wood-pattern Tracing), these phenomena get to move from each piece to others. For instance, the lines and waves of a beech tree wood in one piece should be along the natural lines of its surrounding pieces of other woods so that it can help the viewer pay less attention to the fragmentation of the image. I would say Naqshbandi demonstrates the natural character of the wood in the best possible way. The title of this work which is in fact here as a manifest of Naqshbandi, is Forest Heart and that is to say it hails from the heart of forest.

I habitually wake up before dawn and just in bed, reply to emails and Instagram messages and generally check things out. I routinely start off my days with a glass of warm water and taking a shower. Eating an apple a day, I walk to work, and there I have my breakfast. I work on my projects and see how personal workshop and also the institute's affairs are going in the morning. I have lunch at about 1 p.m and finish work at about 6 p.m. Getting back home, I take shower, make some plans and write some schedules, read in my field of work, have dinner and watch a film. Finally, before going to bed, I drink another glass of warm water and usually read a story to my interest in bed. And at about 11 p.m just drop off.

The very first thing in my point of view on this matter is that no sophisticated idea pops into our mind at once. Of course every great idea is only a simple one at the beginning, and after a long shot, it becomes an incredible design. So, we should just give every idea a go without prejudging that as a come-to-nothing one. One more thing to think of is that every path, even if it doesn't work out in the end, brings us valuable experiences which may be the key to the success of our other paths in future. In fact, life is successful in whatever way we pave, but you just need to make belief in what you do. And finally, the more you ground others, the more you yourself will learn while teaching them, and the more ideas will flash through your mind.

A designer always has a varied and exciting life to discover. Never does their life get dull or like a mundane existence. They always provide a solution to the challenges of their own life and that of others. They are loveable fellows. A designer always has a sense of independence, usefulness, and value as an individual and enjoys the ability to express their ideas. However, there are usually others who get more out of a designer's ideas, by stealing and copying. Another drawback could be the thing that a professional designer like a soldier or an athlete is sometimes too busy with ideas and performing tham so their family life gets affected, and it's not nice. So, by and large, if their community does not understand the ideas of a designer, they will fall into great sadness.

In the heart of every seed is a robust tree. And each forest has started off with a tree.

I would say a designer should have three parts of their being deeply conscious and in effective control, and somehow strengthen these three parts every day. These three are physical body, mind and spirit. It is best to discover your body through a physical activity such as a sport or a game and strengthen your nerve and muscle coordination, especially the coordination of the nerve and the muscles of eyes and hands. To train your mind, you can always raise challenges for yourself. For instance, the ability to teach others makes us always subject to questions of the mind and so it has to process and find answers. And as for strengthening and discovering spiritual skills, a designer can enjoy making attempts to improve the lives of others and set this up as a mission.

I believe in the magic of hand and pencil design. I am greatly fond of this way and find it really inspiring. Another thing I use as a software to speed up my visualisation process is mechanical pencil. I also make a maquette of my idea at times to have an initial form of that.

I see a design from idea to implementation, like a plant as it grows. I plant the seed and wait for it to grow naturally. I do not have to pay for it every minute as it can itself grow smart in me. I take care of it between my daily routine and only when it needs care. I consider it to be an integral part of my life. I live in the garden of my ideas, plans and designs.

It depends. I have had a day's experience of implementing and accomplishing an idea and also have an idea I have been turning over for 5 years.

My most critical question is whether nature has first made the appeal to reason, or reason to nature.

Establishing and founding a dedicated complex cultural and wood arts institute

My business relationship with customers is divided into three categories, research, education and production. Some of my clients are organizations with whom I have make research contracts, such as the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, the Ministry of Science, and the Visual Arts Association. I have training programs as well with some of my clients, such as the Ministry of Science, the Ministry of Culture and the Arts, and private classes, as well as classes at the old Kamal al-Molk Academy. And finally, I work in the production sector with museums and private collections, as well as producing specialised tools and providing educational packages.

I am interested in designing and inventing tools the most because I believe that tools and human beings are moving on like a see-saw! Man makes tools, and tools make man skilled. And then man makes more advanced tools, and again these more advanced tools make man more advanced. And this is driving the process of human civilization

One of my most important plans for the future is to create an organisational structure for the wood arts where enthusiasts can meet their needs in education, research and production. My next long-term project is to design and expose a great question that can revolutionise human visual understanding, even though I have been searching for an answer for years and have not been able to find any. To that end, I have decided to ask the question and challenge others. My next dream is to create a forest. And to start, I have made up my mind to make anyone interested in working with my organisation plant a tree in a predetermined location.

I am more alone in creating artworks but team up in the research, training and manufacturing departments.

I do not think we should talk about a design until it is done mainly because the excitement of the unseen design involves much of the designer's energy and motivation to move forward. However, I have an idea which needs international support, and I wish someone would read this and take a step. The thing is I have made an attractive wooden set of fountain pens. As it is to my plan, through the UN, kings, presidents and world leaders will all be invited to write a short text on world peace at the UN's annual meeting in a handmade design notebook. And this book will be called the Millennium of Peace. Fountain pens under the name of these paticipented names are kept in a museum next to the "Millennium Peace Book". And after that, the book would be widely published and distributed around the world so everyone could know what the countries' heads think of peace. This may help unite politicians' ideas to build a better world.

You can find me on the internet via this instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/mohamadalivadood/?hl=en

I Would like to thank the founder of A Design Award and Competition for creating this equal opportunity for all the people of the world. It is very valuable that a team dedicate their time to this great service, thank you and all your colleagues and wish you all the best.

I am actually a life-long artist and also a designer who works in the field of wooden arts and my works include wooden sculpting, carving and marquetry. As an art instructor, I have always done my best to help my students think creatively. As an artist, reviving old forms of art from ancient Persia has been something that I highly regard with respect and enthusiasm, especially when it goes to old Iranian wood carving and its design.

My father used to work in industry. So, since I were a child, simple tools were kind of my playthings. My elder brother helped me take the first steps as a child, game-wise, and as for my mother, she would always support my ideas as a kid and take them serious. When I was a teenager, I would make my toys himself and have fun with my playmates who were usually fascinated by my invented toys. School used to offer me a mundane existence and I always thought I could make a better use of my time out of school. I was able to get my hands on a load of good wood, due to my geography, and as a result I got to like it. Through a television program, I realised there were carving workshops in another city. So, I traveled there and spent a year training with special tools and making inlay forms. On my return, I opened my own workshop and after a while, was invited to work for the Cultural Heritage Organization. At the Institute of Traditional Arts of the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization, I had the opportunity to draw on the experiences of longtime professors of different fields of design and traditional arts. And then I was elected as the head of the Wood Arts Workshop at that institute. At the same time, due to my artistic and research activities, I was honoured to receive first-rate art from the Supreme Council of Culture of Iran. It was when I was invited to teach by the art universities. In all of these years, I believed I have in fact experienced a real on-the-job training process and these words are actually the record of the training I have been through.

I tend to have a naturalistic style in my design. I believe the foundation of everything is there in nature. The main feature and attitude of my design is to show a new horizon of ability and path to a harmony with pristine nature in order to achieve visual expression. I like hand tools more as I suppose they make us stronger and more skilled, and above all it is so much fun working with them. I use technology only when it is time to shorten a project.

At first, I get confused, then I get frustrated, and all of a sudden something springs to my mind. After struggling with the new idea, if I find the solution, I will rejoice, and if not, it starts again from the beginning until I get my hands on the answer.

As I said, my family, regarding my understanding of tools and their use plus the enthusiasm, them my geography, speaking of wood and other material that came in handy later in my career, and finally the horizons that my early experiences in small workshops broadened to me.

Well, I would like to tell you about my future perspective and suppose it can help you see my background as well. One of my most important plans for the future is to create an organisational structure for the wood arts where enthusiasts can meet their needs in education, research and production. My next long-term project is to design and expose a great question that can revolutionise human visual understanding, even though I have been searching for an answer for years and have not been able to find any. To that end, I have decided to ask the question and challenge others. My next dream is to create a forest. And to start, I have made up my mind to make anyone interested in working with my organisation plant a tree in a predetermined location.

The very first thing in my point of view on this matter is that no sophisticated idea pops into our mind at once. Of course every great idea is only a simple one at the beginning, and after a long shot, it becomes an incredible design. So, we should just give every idea a go without prejudging that as a come-to-nothing one. One more thing to think of is that every path, even if it doesn't work out in the end, brings us valuable experiences which may be the key to the success of our other paths in future. In fact, life is successful in whatever way we pave, but you just need to make belief in what you do. And finally, the more you ground others, the more you yourself will learn while teaching them, and the more ideas will flash through your mind.

First of all, I should thank you for your kindness to call me a truly successful one. As for my suggestions, I would say a designer should have three parts of their being deeply conscious and in effective control, and somehow strengthen these three parts every day. These three are physical body, mind and spirit. It is best to discover your body through a physical activity such as a sport or a game and strengthen your nerve and muscle coordination, especially the coordination of the nerve and the muscles of eyes and hands. To train your mind, you can always raise challenges for yourself. For instance, the ability to teach others makes us always subject to questions of the mind and so it has to process and find answers. And as for strengthening and discovering spiritual skills, a designer can enjoy making attempts to improve the lives of others and set this up as a mission.

I habitually wake up before dawn and just in bed, reply to emails and Instagram messages and generally check things out. I routinely start off my days with a glass of warm water and taking a shower. Eating an apple a day, I walk to work, and there I have my breakfast. I work on my projects and see how personal workshop and also the institute's affairs are going in the morning. I have lunch at about 1 p.m and finish work at about 6 p.m. Getting back home, I take shower, make some plans and write some schedules, read in my field of work, have dinner and watch a film. Finally, before going to bed, I drink another glass of warm water and usually read a story to my interest in bed. And at about 11 p.m just drop off.

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Any idea or design can be good when it comes to balancing these three: concept, application, and visual beauty.

I do the same thing on my own works. If I could see the decent harmony between these three aspects in my work, and it can fulfill my image of the design then I find it ready. There is always this desire to improve though.

orest Heart is the design he has nominated for the A Design Award in 2020. This work is the result of a great discovery in designing. This work shows we can see the nature better, think more of what we see and create links between ourselves and our nature. Along with doing a beautiful design, this is a lifestyle, and so it is my favourite design. There are moments he lives with it, and in these moments he neither wants to be overpowered by nature nor want to overcome it, but he wants to be in harmony with nature.

I live in Iran and here we speak the language of poetry, walk on carpets with cosmic motifs and dwell in cities that are thousands of years old. I do my best to keep up with the thinking and cultural heritage of my country and wish my country and its history will always be one of the honours of human civilization.

I believe that my being has got three shapes, my physical body, my mind and my spirit. Art is the absolute fashion in which these three meet so that they can unite and become dynamically active. while my hands work in harmony with my eyes and anything observed and analysed by my mind contributes to whatever it seeks, my spirit gets filled with passion for life, these all occure in the realm of arts.

There are a couple charities that I try to keep in touch, but thinking of something of my own, there is a society that we are trying to define and the moment and has already achieved to a good existence and is making its own way. We, in our team, want to create a wood artists society with our friend who have physical disabilities but have strong arms and have the chances to make great influences.

I Would like to thank the founder of A Design Award and Competition for creating this equal opportunity for all the people of the world. It is very valuable that a team dedicate their time to this great service, thank you and all your colleagues and wish you all the best.

His father worked in the industry, and from childhood he was a part of his toys. His older brother gave him his first training in creative games. And her mother always supported her childish ideas and took her seriously. When he was a teenager, he would make his own toys and toys and enjoy the work of his friends. She was bullied at school and felt she could make better use of her time. Wood was available to build his ideas, and this made him interested in woodworking. Through a television program he realized that there were workshops in another city. He traveled there and spent a year training with special tools and making inlay forms. After returning he opened his own workshop and was invited to work by the Cultural Heritage Organization for a while. At the Institute of Traditional Arts of the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization, he had the opportunity to draw on the experiences of ancient masters in various fields of design and traditional arts. And then he was elected head of the Wood Arts Workshop at that institute. At the same time, due to his artistic and research activities, he was able to receive first-rate art from the Supreme Council of Culture of Iran. Then she was invited to teach by the art universities. In all of these, she has experienced a real on-the-job training process and this is the record of the training she has gone through.

He always had many questions. Sometimes his family or teachers would answer his questions, and most of the time no one. So, he got myself involved and started designing things to meet his questions and needs and then began making. People around him ended up praising me and he myself got to like designing. I am habitually motivated in three fashions to get started with a work. First of all, I enjoy designing something for my own sake. Next, I fancy making stuff for others and get them surprised and smiley. And finally, when a design goes well, developes and turns out to be a great one, a glorious feeling cheers me up, and this is when I can say I design for the sake of designing.

He was first only encouraged to be a designer, by his mom and also his friends. And after some time he decided to become a designer this time himself and of course to make them happy, he tried to be a good one.

He has a huge interest in three areas of design: first, designing applications which make everything possible or easier; second, to design a new concept to inspire others into an intangible culture; and third, designing for the sake of expressing aesthetic and decorative motifs.

It is best to see what others have done and what they have made. Then think about why they did it. And after that, think more about what else could be done. And now, finally, it's time for us to do what others have not done.

A good designer finds the answers to a challenge. While a great designer raises a challenge as well as the answer.

Designing well can only help solve a problem, draw attentions to a phenomenon by making it look beautiful, just express an invisible meaning. However, a great design can completely and utterly express the beauty of a concept and solve problems in a wider fashion.

A fine design can promote the level of thinking and vision of the society, And the community that has upgraded their view would need stronger and better designs. So, investing in design means investing in the future development of our society.

Designing educational content and packages is very important for teaching to enthusiasts. I believe designing is very attractive and enjoyable to ladies, they give great importance to a fine design. Moreover, it is a smart and profitable job for the industry.

He is a 42-year-old man who would like to live until 2080 and has a 100-year plan. He hopes and strives to run his organization in a way to continue until 2120, 40 years after his death. He has designed a special award for the best works in the wood arts and is bestowed annually on the best design. These awards will be handmade sculptures, in 100 numbers, and will be themselves an antique and valuable works in the next hundred years. And everyone knows a designer made them 100 years ago with the love and hope of that day. The institution would have a garden planted by its founder and all students are required to plant a tree and care for the garden when joining. Its 100th Anniversary Celebration will be held in 2120 at its Garden, which by that time would have 100-year-old cedar trees. His institution will be a specialized wooden arts academy that collects and maintains alumni's knowlege, create educational content and educates enthusiasts, train instructors in the field of wooden arts, and also experts and curators, train skilled technicians and laborers from among trainees and create woodworking pieces of art and even tools. There will be an annual festival, in which the bests of each category are presented. This is a summary of his dream project

They would only accept and do what can truly be a part of their being.

Leonardo Davinci Mahmoud Farshchian Michelangelo Beonaroti Simon Sheikh Baha'i

Michelangelo's sculpture of David is a real masterpiece. It can seriously move or take steps. Leonardo da Vinci's designs are inspiring as they are their forward-thinking and bold. Mauritius Corlens Asher's designs are very challenging and appealing and one feels that there is something beyond what he really sees.

For the 2020 A Design competition, I have presented an intriguing artistic idea called Naqshbandi that Wood-pattern Tracing could be a literal equivalent of that and a work made entirely of textures and natural wood colours is included as an indication of this idea. This idea presents a new perspective for wood artists and could be the origin of a new movement in using wood as an organic, non-repetitive occurrence. The attitude of man's innate harmony with nature is the key to acquiring the knowledge of the Naqshbandi as a form of marquetry. This view invites man to the desired level of harmony with nature rather than living in an insane state which is destructive to or even indifferent about it.

The process of designing a work consists of three steps of seeing, analysing and performing. It is best to go each of these three steps on our owns to build up a real designer of ourselves. If we follow others at every turn, we will probably always be behind them.

Designing is the ability to integrate with your environment which means the impact taken or caused between human and their environment. Making a design is like a harmonious dance with life as your partner. Sometimes you dance and sometimes your partner makes you do so. Designing is to embrace the immutable things and alter the things that can be changed and this is the art of designers to distinguish the difference between these two points.