"Abstract: The Art of Design" interviews 8 famous creative artists around the world and shares the creative art concepts held by these designers who are active in the world's top design fields.
P1: Christoph Niemann - Illustration Illustrator
Ins: abstractsunday
Author: "abstract city"
Identity: newyoker cover illustrator
Although the creation is often staring at the blank paper in a daze, it must be believed that some kind of crazy moment will burst out;
Creative expression is to find a just right balance between the extremes of figuration and abstraction;
Inspiration is for amateurs, we professionals just clock in to work in the morning - Chuck Krause (American hyperrealist painter)
Busy people make the world, idle people make the world.
Sometimes what you are doing is not creating a virtual world, you are breaking the known world into small elements and recombining them, and a painting is born. (Isn't this the creation of ideas we usually see in books? Old elements make new combinations.)
Some things need to go back and dig deeper.
For inspiration, every good idea you come up with makes the next one harder.
You can only get better with practice. Athletes, musicians, and artists.
The idea of pop music is not to tell new stories, but to tell old stories in a fresh and interesting way.
When I see a work, if it evokes fear, anxiety, or hope in me, I'd say it makes me realize that I'm alive, in love, or filled with fear.
Continue to create, observe the world, make the world into a painting, and then express it.
Others: "Slow Invention", APP: Chomp
P2: Tinker Hatfield - Footwear Design
Occupation: NIKE AJ designer, costume designer, former pole vaulter, architect
Related Information: Bill Bowerman, University of Oregon
Reekbok used to make aerobics shoes
NIKE: Tell a good story and make a better product at the same time
In many ways, design is about anticipating future needs.
A rudimentary design always emphasizes functionality, but a great design expresses more.
I think when people are young, what they try to do is to win and come out on top.
If you neither love your job nor sniff it, you're not doing enough.
P3 Es Devlin - Stage Design Stage Design
Related works: Harold Pinter, Betrayal, Freelancer, Macbeth, The Nether, Don Juan, Hamlet
Partners: Milan, Beyonce, Kanye, channel, Adele, U2,
Five elements of stage design: space, light, darkness, proportion, time,
Once you have a framework, the first thing you want to do is how to break it;
All artists have a source, no matter how small
The process of showing is itself a process of finding
The design you see is only the tip of the iceberg, but the effort you put in to present the tip of the iceberg is the most important thing, it can shape you.
Even if the designed work is dying, it will remain in people's hearts in the form of memory
P4 Bjarke Ingles - Architecture
TAG: Founder of BIG Group, Hedonistic Sustainability
Related works: Home for Youth at Sea, Serpentine Gallery
Other architects: Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Toyo Ito, Oscar Niemeyer, Rem Koolhaas, Olafur Eliasson, Cretier Thorsen, Frank Gehry, Herzog Demouron, Sou Fujimoto, Smilian Radek
Yes is more
But when you understand, if you make decisions based on things that you know are important to you. No matter where you go, it's where you were meant to be.
Architecture can change the concept of a city and make people willing to embrace more possibilities.
P5 Ralph Gilles - Automotive Design Automotive Design
Head of Global Design, Fiat Chrysler
Works: Chrysler 300, Jeep Cherokee, Maserati, Alfa Romeo
When a car hits the road, it not only perfectly represents the brand itself, but it should also be a piece of Detroit charm.
I firmly believe that the best design is always emotional
SRT=Street & Racing technology
As a designer, is to create taste
P6 Paula Scher - Graphic Design Graphic Design
Occupation: Pentagram Five Star Design
Typography is painting with words
Boston Band Cover, Recruits (Led Zeppelin) Band
Citibank+Traveler=Citi
Designing a logo is never the real hard part, the real hard part is convincing thousands of people to use it.
The belief that drives me forward is that I haven't made my best work yet.
What can I make next ?
P7 Platon - Photography
New Yorker, George, Time magazine photographer
Photography is all about the story, the message in it, the feeling in it, the relationship in it, how you make it reach people.
People affected: Frank Lloyd Wright, George Lewis
Great Design Simplifies the World
The best light is sunlight, no light, no assistance, this is vivid photography
We are nothing if we do not experience communicative bonding.
You're looking for that moment that makes you feel so close to your soul
P8 Ilse Crawford - Interior Design
Founder of Iser Studio
Book: "Feeling Home"
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Design is not limited to vision, it is a thinking process, a skill. Design is a tool to sublimate humanity, it is a framework for life.
Works: Somerset Babington Hotel, SOHO House, London Checony, The Old Bell Hotel, Aesop Store, Light Sword Studio, Cottage Switzerland, 226 Hong Kong, IKEA Restaurant, Cathay Pacific Airport Lounge , Hotel Atheim, Sweden
Interior design elements: inspection, resonance, imagination, tools, sense of place,
How to create an environment. Make people who stay here feel more comfortable than when they just arrived.
The table can be a metaphor for power and confrontation
Putting people's needs first, design has a profound impact.
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