Interview with Chung-Yuan Kuo
Never stop learning graphic design, including creativity and visual art. Never want to grow up, toys are favorite!
Design Legend Interview
5 May 2020
I'd just completed my senior high school life. I started to learn design skills after graduating and I tried any design cases and never give up.
I love to find out the advertising ideas when I was young.
Design choose me. Someone said that I was born for design.
New branding and new design package that make people feel surprised.
Learning attitude and try to be a bit more modest.
A good designer is listening to the clients' voice. A great designer can face to audiences(customers).
A really good design becomes a visual solution for audiences.
The value of good design is belongs to a good selling volume.
Make a good design case for our society and people in Taiwan.
I would like to apply graphic ability in fashion field.
Secret observation.
Kashiwasato in Japan.
The business case combines art with design.
Every design project that I've devoted to.
Try to be friendly in the society.
The boss who sells the vintage toys.
Design is living in my country.
Getting more vintage toys.
From clients' untrustful eyes.
Via their social net-working sites.
Design different meaning calendar for different public institutions.
Make people in the world to see TAIWAN.
Make our society better via a good design.
A solution with a wonderful visual design.
My clients' and students' pleased interaction.
A lot of people can come to the exhibition that I curated.
Multi-professional design fields for one case.
I think Japan is full of profession designers.
I will see the scale of this case.
I will start a new design project in May, 2020, in Taiwan.
Do not give up any successful way.
Design sets the trends. It can change the trends.
Case integrated.
Adobe AI/PS, Keynote
They can make the design case be vivid.
Is it a beautiful solution?
Suitable visual package when I am traveling.
I believe in co-design and I want to work with foreign designers.
A creative director who is in the advertising field.
KASAI Kaoru 1968
Drawing with my hands and never depend on my pc.
Kashiwasato in Japan.
I don't want to be famous. I just believe that my work can make people(including juries) satisfied.
Some of branding Toys and foods in a vintage market in the Spring.
The duration getting a new project and knowing every secret from this case.
Play with my vintage toys.
Yes, I want to collect all the toys.
In the future, design doesn't need to explained by we designers.
I love my toys more than others.
Designer Interview
5 May 2020
I never stop learning graphic & visual strategies. I love to appreciate the design result for every work. I have wanted to be a designer until my creativities are not found.
My design studio is called "Midroom Lab". I hope that the company's role is always "in the middle of" every design cases and our clients.
Design is a visual solution.
Package systems, Logo identity, and to be an exhibition curator.
Package design. I enjoy that customers could get surprised when they see the package and open it.
Taiwanese tea package.
Wood or bamboo package for showing Taiwanese characteristic.
When sharing my design opinion with my colleagues.
Good visual skill with touched idea.
Pleased and excited.
Feel confident.
Revised the design work constantly before announcement.
The audiences' voice.
Reuse package material.
"Design field" and "future of design" include every living goods when your open your eyes every day.
I held the exhibition in December last year in Taiwan. I hope I will hold the exhibition in the summer this year.
See and feel when traveling.
We always to make design works that could be broken through the last work.
Taiwan is a small country where is proceeding to make world known via design.
Discussion with each other, not only professional design process but also hobbies.
Design is a hard way to do it fast. A good designer must face to all kinds of difficult design cases.
Make a main design strategy, find out key visual words, draw the sketches, and do them constantly until forming a perfect work.
1. To know about every design news in the world. 2. Play with my cat. 3. Play video game. 4. Clean my vintage toys. 5. Sit on my favorite chair.
Work with my colleague or teach students of the related design major.
Never stop learning and being curious.
To live in different modes very day but you have to burn your brain constantly.
There is no shortcut to success.
Draw the sketches every day.
Every toy from different countries! I am not good at drawing software in pc. I love to use "COPIC" to record my design idea.
Sleep early and spend a lot of time to set my dress and hair in the morning. And then go working with a passion.
I think half year (six months) is a suitable duration to complete a design case.
How can you break through your work every time?
Clients can focus on my opinion for their products.
Most of them are small and medium-sized enterprises in Taiwan.
New product packaging is just like a baby who is born from us and clients.
To break through my last work.
I work with my colleague and create all kinds of ideas from each other.
To redesign some of branding case for public institutions.
Please go onto the website: https://midroomlab.com/
Taiwan is my country where is full of design energies.