Interview with dipl. Ing Zuzana Mantel

Nature, culture and society. I love science fiction literature.

I decided to be a designer. We did some creativity test on a chair at school. After creating it, my professor suggested I try industrial design exams. So I did.

What also interested me. Furniture, interior, clothing, jewelry, glass, industrial products, graphics.

Have an open mind and an open heart. Collaboration and support is the main key to realizing ideas.

Great idea, the X factor

Timelessness

Glass objects

Glass sculptures

Authenticity

Le Corbusier, Leonardo da Vinci, Zaha Hadid, Elsa Schiaparelli, Antoni Gaudi, Philippe Starck

Marcel Breuer / chairs

The Barcelona chair from Mies van der Rohe

Be authentic with yourself, dare your intuition.

Veterinarian

Everything around us

My teachers and the wisdom of the people around me.

Self-doubt

With confidence

Glass Vases

Always be surprised and keep an open mind.

People should not expect, they should find the explorer in themselves and let themselves be surprised.

If a person surrounds himself with things that are timeless and cares for them with love, then that is all.

I study metallurgical glass technology and the combination of different techniques and materials.

Projects where I can fully unleash my imagination and be an explorer.

aesthetics, joy and more playfulness

To nature and amorphousness to compensate cyberspace.

It depends on the complexity of the project

By analyzing and determining what I want to achieve.

Dream to reality.

Necessary

Rhino, Adobe and hand drawing is the key.

Essential.

It can be even bigger.

Cooperation is the basis, the certainty that I can rely on them.

I have no specific person, I am inspired by a moment, an idea

I don't have a specific one, I am inspired by new views, materials, a new view of the world.

Zaha Hadid

They're cool, it's definitely a road, you're on the right track. I don't think that being famous is a necessity

favorite color - ultramarine blue, place - home, food - exotic and spicy, season - summer, thing - glass, brand - hard to choose once

I hitched a flight to the capital city for a design assessment. I missed the train and my friend had a ticket that I used (in his name) it was in the last century :)

A project that fills me with passion.

We will appreciate the addition and natural materials

Ask me.... Do you know what the essence of the world is?

I specialize in making mosaics, oil painting and visual communication in new media.

Design is part of life, need for aesthetic property in our life.
"We are created to enjoy beauty, The beauty we create for life."

I like to design things what improve not only technical property but also aesthetic appear.

Right now my last one "Little Star" - glass mosaics light object, what I signet-up for A'design Award&Competition.

Corporate identity logo and graphic design of product.

Oil paint, Stone, Glass

When I receive a challenge.

aesthetic, technical skill and pragmatism

Happy and satisfied.

thrill, happy and satisfied.

Need to have feedback from community.

aesthetic, technical skill and pragmatism

To create a meaningful thing

I think there is diversity in between unification and individuality.

Last exhibition was 2015 at Paris, France - Carrrousel du Louvre Salon Art Shopping 17th edition, next exhibition is In april 2016 at ArtExpo 2016 New York, NYC, USA

paint light and color, emotion and vibration. I use color as form to create space. I'm interested in philosophy, numerology, symbolism, life-philosophy, religion and culture. My creation is directed by natural and humans forms. I create with love.

Definition of my expression is metaphorically symbolic.

I live in Prague, Czech Republic and I m surrounded by cultural heritage.

Cooperation

Cooperation and placability.
Companies can select a good designer by needs what they expect from design.

setting, analysis, creation, realization

Interior design, furniture, garments, jewelry, car

I wake up, study new ideas, technology I look for inspiration. Make a basic day agenda. Continue create on running projects.

We are created to enjoy beauty, The beauty we create for life.

Positive thing - we can see to the future, negative thing is that society sometime don't see and think about future.

Simplicity

Passion for creation

pencil, notebook, computer, programs from Adobe, internet, cutters, brush, colors, electric tools, material, glue, tool box, library

It is individual, when project is with customer specifications and with a time limit, I finish by the rules. When I create for myself I set to myself some a time plan a goals what I want achieve.

Sometimes days sometimes years...

Where I find inspiration...

Self employ.

companies, friends, private clients

I enjoy to create decorative and applicable design items for interior.

I want to build my own design brand.

Now I work by myself and I m open for cooperation.

I have another item in working progress and I m developing cooperation with a Lightning company.

All info is available on web, by mail
zuzana.mantel@gmail.com

I like to see future more happy and colorful.