Khajornsak Nakpan

Specialized in Textile Design.

Khajornsak Nakpan

About Khajornsak Nakpan

An “Innovative fashion designer” who specialises in generating knowledge of creative design, theory of colours, and computer graphics. Combining his diverse abilities and skills renders uniqueness to Khajornsak’s work. He focuses on the aesthetics of modern art, especially conceptual art. He also pays attention to research methodology and process. His work, therefore, demonstrates different aesthetic dimensions through the lens of adaptive science. One of Khajornsak’s widely known works is “Innovative Synthesized Melanin from Soil as Textile Substitute to Create Garment for the Future”. The research builds upon a study on the abundance and changing qualities of soil. It is part of an experiment to create a textile substitute material by synthesizing natural fibre and melanin from good bacteria into cellulose sheets. The process is a clean technology and produces zero waste. Result is a textile substitute material, which is human, and nature friendly. The material is an innovation which can drive an investment on environmental friendly fashion business. The entire process from designing to production focuses on using clean technology to reduce pollution, maximising nature resources, and decreasing dependency on imported materials. Following his success in the innovative material, Khajornsak applies the result to other products to demonstrate the effectiveness and potential of the material. The products include accessories, sleeping wear, lingerie, and mixed materials paintings. Apart from creating aesthetic experiences, he also tries to disseminate the knowledge through presenting the research in different international academic forums. In the near future, Khajornsak aims to continue to drive the creation of new materials to improve innovative design and harmonious living. The relationship between humans, the textile substitute material, and nature, can lead to a ‘balanced reality,’ which enables us to preserve the “ecological cycle of happiness”.

  • Winner of the A' Design Award.
  • Specialized in Textile Design.
  • Original Design.
  • Creative, Diligent and Innovative.
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  • Textile
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Interview with Khajornsak Nakpan

Could 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?
I was born in an average income family. I grew up with a name given to me by the late King Bhumibol, the highest blessing of my life. My family is small. They give me the freedom to do whatever I want which is the best tool I could be given. That and my own talent enables me to achieve awards at different levels since I was in primary school. It inspires me to pursue my passion for art. I started being a designer when I was 25 years old in 2000, and it has been more than 20 years in progress. My ability and experience in art as a designer led me to a balanced and harmonious living path, which teaches me that design is aesthetics.
Can you tell us more about your company / design studio?
INDIN Studio launched after the success of my PhD. Degree. It presents an "Innovative substitute material from soil-synthesised melanin" that combines empirical science, the essence of creative design and aesthetics to build a new body of knowledge.
What is "design" for you?
Design is philosophical aesthetics. It is life and nourishes life.
What kinds of works do you like designing most?
The integration of sciences will be proven by research and constructing a concept.
What is your most favorite design, could you please tell more about it?
Body adornment is the most favourite of mine. It is scrutinising a bridge of transcending the relationship between the outer and the internal context through the body, with the attention that humans would notice, perceive, and communicate what one's can feel or see by observing its meaning through the senses and interpreting the philosophy to the mind.
What was the first thing you designed for a company?
Innovative Synthesized Melanin from Soil as Textile Substitute to Create Garments for the Future.
When do you feel the most creative?
I use every challenge and obstacle as a drive, trying to find a positive aspect in the struggle and create the turning point of its essence.
Which aspects of a design do you focus more during designing?
The language of aesthetics conveys deeper meaning than what the eyes can see to translate the meaning to the philosophy of sustainable living.
From your point of view, what are the responsibilities of a designer for society and environment?
Using soil is a clean production technology which is friendly to the human body and based on the concept of harmonious living with nature. The design process considered the full production cycle, ensuring that it left no waste.
How do you think the "design field" is evolving? What is the future of design?
It can be said that the success of this textile substitute may be the reflection of the integration between aesthetic philosophy and scientific innovation. The research highlights an effort to seek knowledge and creating clothing materials that resemble different human skin tones can be a future trend, especially since melanin synthesis blends well with the skin tones of people.
When was your last exhibition and where was it? And when do you want to hold your next exhibition?
Thailand's Creative Economy Agency arranged the 2022 Circular Design Exhibition, coordinated with Taiwan Design Research Institute at Taiwan Design Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. The next exhibition expects at Charon Kransen Art Gallery, New York, USA.
Where does the design inspiration for your works come from? How do you feed your creativity? What are your sources of inspirations?
The use of soil innovation to synthesize textile substitutes and create garments for the future has been inspired by the study of the cycle of ‘soil’ and the changes in ‘soil’ properties. The experimental process synthesizes bio-fibre and melanin from Streptomyces, bacteria naturally present in the soil, into bio-melanin textile.
How 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?
The design style focuses on the aesthetics of postmodern art, especially philosophy. Hence, it needs attention to research methodology and process. Design works, therefore, demonstrate different aesthetic dimensions through the lens of adaptive science.
Where 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?
Bangkok, Thailand. I wanted to create something which generates happiness from within my root. So I began to study a material that seems simple and can be found anywhere, like soil, compared to myself. The pro persuades to achieve a philosophy that lives harmoniously with nature. The con is a big gap in the aesthetic experience skills of Thai people.
What are your suggestions to companies for working with a designer? How can companies select a good designer?
Based on rational thinking, the fundamental of design thinking should demonstrate the concrete and the abstract in the scientific design process.
Can you talk a little about your design process?
The concrete dimension of the development process considers the source material (which is soil) and the resulting bio-fibre. I felt two soil components: its physical qualities (mass, friability, and colour) and characteristics (elasticity and water solubility). Soil is rich in minerals, and it is the foundation of life. Therefore, the abstract frame of this creative process is direct to the physical qualities of the precursors used and the production process. Accordingly, the development process highlights various concepts that underlie this creativity: rootedness, foundation, birth, growth, strength, and life.
From your perspective, what would you say are some positives and negatives of being a designer?
A good designer needs the spirit of consciousness and responsibility to society.
What is your "golden rule" in design?
Reconsider the past, Analyse the present and Extrapolate the future.
Who are some of your clients?
The new generation is open-minded with the eyes of responsibility.
What type of design work do you enjoy the most and why?
Enjoy the challenge of using the theory of aesthetics to design by changing the thing properties as normal simple and abundant raw material and adding value to be realised.
What are your future plans? What is next for you?
Creating and developing the innovative material represents a philosophy that lives harmoniously to be safe from every changing future.
Do you work as a team, or do you develop your designs yourself?
Mainly, I develop it myself but hire the expertise to support some technical production.
Do you have any works-in-progress being designed that you would like to talk about?
I’m interested in “mould”. I like the idea that it grows from something which is dead. It can be used to demonstrate the life cycle – a circle of living, pain, survival, and disintegration.
How can people contact you?
1. Page https://www.facebook.com/khajornsak.n/ 2. Instagram https://www.instagram.com/khajornsak_nakpan/ 3. YouTube https://youtu.be/J0EuW031TiA 4. Email khajornsaknakpan@gmail.com
Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?
The bio melanin fibre fashion seen in this collection is a result of the innovative synthesising of melanin from soil to produce a substitute biomaterial. It highlights the uniqueness of soil which has a similar colour to human skin (and can be demonstrated by a scientific method.) It reflects the concepts of “self-esteem,” respecting others and nature. Everything in this world is interdependent. It is important that we are able to live together with balance and in harmony.

Designer of the Day Interview with Khajornsak Nakpan

Could you please tell us about your experience as a designer, artist, architect or creator?
I have been working in the garment design industry for almost 20 years. An extended period embodied the ability and specialisation in Textile Design, Fashion Colouring, Visual Merchandising, Graphic Design, and motivating people's creativity in the industry.
How did you become a designer?
I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in Western Painting, Poh-Chang Academy of Arts, Bangkok, Thailand. To begin working in the design field with visual art skills may broaden my potential and challenge. The enhancement of thinking in the abstract, from studying Fine arts to applying to the commercial design industry, can unfold my imagination and uplift my creativity.
What are your priorities, technique and style when designing?
My favourite is using various design techniques such as drawing, collating, also computing, and I create freely to come up with artwork. Togethering doing severe research and experimenting can fulfil the complete content of the design. After the vital ideas of designing, I make mock-ups and physical models to construct the answer to the plan.
Which emotions do you feel when designing?
Listening to Jazz music in the chic atmosphere with an excellent decorating style always personates my overwhelming emotions but is refined with experiences while designing dedicatedly.
What particular aspects of your background shaped you as a designer?
Combining my diverse abilities and skills renders uniqueness to the design work. I focus on the aesthetics of postmodernism, especially conceptual art. I also pay attention to research methodology and process. My particular aspects of the background shaped my design work, demonstrating different aesthetic dimensions through the lens of adaptive science. The turning point from integrating multi-disciplines can always drive the Avant guard ideas.
What is your growth path? What are your future plans? What is your dream design project?
Shortly, I aim to continue to drive the creation of new materials to improve the innovative design and harmonious living. The relationship between humans, the textile substitute material, and nature can lead to a ‘balanced reality,’ enabling us to preserve the “ecological cycle of happiness”.
What are your advices to designers who are at the beginning of their career?
My advice will enthusiasm them to focus on studying philosophical aesthetics. It can uplift their design thinking and process of creativity. Especially, to support the logic of living in the changing of this century requires various theories in design to answer the social phenomena.
You are truly successful as a designer, what do you suggest to fellow designers, artists and architects?
Predicting future ways of creation and human needs is a good tool for success. These stipulate with the integration method, supporting answers for a fantastic world of design.
What is your day to day look like?
Even though my daily routine repeatedly begins at nine to six o'clock, I keep seeking new pieces of knowledge to cherish my brain, including nurturing my mind. The energetic analysis paradigm can enhance the force of design.
How do you keep up with latest design trends? To what extent do design trends matter?
Keeping an eye on the trend in as many channels is essential for designing habits of mine.
How do you know if a product or project is well designed? How do you define good design?
A well-designed project needs to be constructed from conceptual ideas enhanced with philosophical aesthetics and responds to functional use.
How do you decide if your design is ready?
The sign of readiness reaches as much as the design drawn and shows a perfection or less visible failure could be the last decision to end the design.
What is your biggest design work?
The project Bio Melanin Fibre for Fashion is the most considerable design work. A purpose of expressing goals—creating scientific innovation and adding value to the resources—reveals that the innovative substitute material from soil-synthesised melanin, its brown pigment that makes skin colours in humans, has excellent potential as an alternative material. Moreover, it is a sustainable material that is biodegradable and produces zero waste, which reduces its production impact on the environment. However, it takes three years to complete.
Who is your favourite designer?
My favourite designer is Issey Miyake, a Japanese fashion designer. His innovation expresses to experiment with new methods of pleating that would allow both flexibilities of movement for the wearer as well as ease of care and production. The garments are cut and sewn first, then sandwiched between layers of paper and fed into a heat press, where they are pleated. The fabric's memory holds the pleats and when the garments are liberated from their paper cocoon, they are ready to wear.
Would you tell us a bit about your lifestyle and culture?
The aspect of the essence of motherland culture cultivates the settled intention that the profound value in it would challenge human perceiving towards designing the objects which long have relationships with us.
Would you tell us more about your work culture and business philosophy?
I believe that working with partners could fix up errors and provide more mature solutions. In addition, the sense of respect for each other diminishes the ego, unfolding the complexity dimension.
What are your philanthropic contributions to society as a designer, artist and architect?
Teaching with a totally enthusiastic and continually updating the explicit knowledge and donating mindfulness to students is one of the philanthropic contributions to society as the designer-lecturer.
What positive experiences you had when you attend the A’ Design Award?
Learning objectives of the A’ Design Award figure out the systematic estimation, which is the ladder of improving the design analysis and creation process. In addition, managing the A’ Design Award operation provokes me to consider the importance of the context in design. The holistic advantage appears to testify to the oblique of the social agreement and the acceptance of estimating can enlarge the value of hard work.

Extended Interview with Khajornsak Nakpan

Could you please tell us about your experience as a designer, artist, architect or creator?
I graduated BFA. (Western Painting) from Poh-Chang Academy of Arts, Bangkok, Thailand. I have started to be a designer. Since I was 25 years old in 2000, it has been more than 20 years in progress.
How did you become a designer?
My family is small. They give me the freedom to do whatever I want which is the best tool I could be given. That and my own talent enables me to achieve awards at different levels since I was in primary school. It inspires me to pursue my passion for art and design.
What are your priorities, technique and style when designing?
I choose to become a designer myself. Before attending a PhD, I worked as a senior fashion designer and merchandising in a big Company named “Saha Pathanapibul”. So, I have almost 20 years of experience. During that period, I gained a lot of valuable skills that weren’t included in the academic curriculum, such as solving and time management skills.
Which emotions do you feel when designing?
One of my accomplishments during my Doctoral life was discovering new knowledge that contributed to the integration of Science and Aesthetics. I’ve been hard-working and have taken my subjects quite seriously. As I am graduated, I want to implement my knowledge to design and create pilot products and design cycles for circular fashion.
What particular aspects of your background shaped you as a designer?
Doing a lot of research to explore the conceptual ideas, practice by using a suitable tool to present an aim, hardworking, including remembering mistakes and keep solving them are the vital disciplines of a Designer.
What is your growth path? What are your future plans? What is your dream design project?
A good designer responds functionally to basic human needs, relying upon social trends. A great designer makes a difference, which beware of the holistic achievement, desiring to contribute to the multi integration of knowledge and construct the philosophical engagement with people and the design society.
What are your advices to designers who are at the beginning of their career?
An outstanding design must be constructed from conceptual ideas enhanced with philosophical aesthetics and responds to practical use. The evaluation directs both physical and mental help.
You are truly successful as a designer, what do you suggest to fellow designers, artists and architects?
The value of good design could review the relationship between humans, metaphors, and nature can lead to a balanced psychomotor enabling us to preserve wisdom.
What is your day to day look like?
The next design project attempts to create the philosophical aesthetics of ‘mould’. It aims to continue driving abstract materials to improve the innovative design and harmonious living and the idea that it grows from something dead. It can be used to demonstrate the life cycle – a circle of living, pain, survival, and disintegration.
How do you keep up with latest design trends? To what extent do design trends matter?
The dream project is to increase the increasing Capacity of Innovative Synthesized Bio Melanin as Textile Substitute through Genius Pattern Design to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals. In addition, the successful project will create minimal waste from pattern cutting.
How do you know if a product or project is well designed? How do you define good design?
Never stop being neglect, observing, learning, thinking, predicting and creating!
How do you decide if your design is ready?
Marcel Duchamp, is a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. In 1958 Duchamp said of creativity, "...The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.."
What is your biggest design work?
My favourite designer is Issey Miyake, a Japanese fashion designer. His innovation expresses experimenting with new methods of pleating that would allow both flexibility of movement for the wearer and ease of care and production. The garments are cut and sewn first, then sandwiched between layers of paper and fed into a heat press, where they are pleated. The fabric's memory holds the pleats, and when the garments are liberated from their paper cocoon, they are ready to wear.
Who is your favourite designer?
I would refer to the great art, Fountain 1917, created by Marcel Duchamp; the idea was to question the very notion of Art and the adoration of art, which Duchamp found "unnecessary". As he mentioned, "...My idea was to choose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see..". This anti-art theory ensures my conceptual ideas are developed in the design aspects.
Would you tell us a bit about your lifestyle and culture?
Making an effort to achieve the essence of hardworking reveals wisdom and real potentiality.
What positive experiences you had when you attend the A’ Design Award?
The first is the master, Fusako Yamanashi and Associate Professor Dr. Supavee Sirinkraporn comes second. They are both the biggest supporters who reach me to the height.

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