Interview with Happy Design
Founded by Didier Wolff in 2010 in Strasbourg, France, Happy Design Studio has become a reference in original taylor made liveries on any type of aircraft.
Designer Interview
28 February 2014
I previously worked with image, creation and design. In fact, I have been writing, acting, sculpting, photo shooting since the earlier stages of my life. Design counts strongly among the various fields of my sensitivity. Getting my pilot license brought me closer to the aviation world, leading me naturally to associate design and aviation. The common denominator of my past experiences is a continuous search for beauty. Through the creation of posters, the gallery and the streets were the open public areas. Now, with the design of aircraft liveries, the gallery is the open sky.
Happy Design Studio is a logical continuation of my rich experience. It has already gotten a fantastically encouraging response from all parties involved in the aeronautical industry.
Happy Design Studio is a logical continuation of my rich experience. It has already gotten a fantastically encouraging response from all parties involved in the aeronautical industry.
Founded in 2010 in Strasbourg, France, Happy Design Studio has become a reference in original taylor made liveries on any type of aircraft. Our dedicated team shares the same passion for a job well done. Ultimately, our aim is to be as proud of the livery as the aircraft’s owner. Happy Design Studio manages the entire design project and supervises the painting of the aircraft on behalf of our worldwide client base, by relying on a large and very qualified network of technical partners. Because each and every design is created on an accurate 3D model, all technical constraints associated with the final painting of the aircraft are taken into consideration from the start, in order to ensure that the result will perfectly match the initial project.
A sticky octopus toy's packaging
Paper, stencils and blue bic pencils
I do not pretend to define any mainstream. There are thousands of designers out there and luckily not one unique direction for art.
Be brief in description and let the designer explore new routes you would not have imagined.
Home made recipes, no one's allowed in the kitchen.
A giant Red & White rocket of Tintin
Definitively forget all initial briefings, work from instinct, because the aircraft, as an object, speaks by itself. It sets its own movements, strength, like muscles remarkably wrapping a body. These essential criteria will give a natural birth to the Design, and only after that first deep set of work do I go back to the initial specifications, not before.
Same as Q.25
The usual computer graphic softwares (Maya, Mental Ray, Photoshop & Illustrator)
Both are so mixed up that I have a hard time to differentiate moments when I work from moments where I am not. I would love to manage this matter!
From 2 to 6 months, each project is of very different nature.
Do you create interior Designs?
Dassault Rafale Fighter, its acrobatics enhance the design.
Private Jet owners, Airlines, Aircraft Manufacturers, Military Air Forces.
The different designs I am working on are under NDA at this point, but I can tell you what my desire would be for one of the next. All our clients are men. I would love to design an aircraft livery for a woman.
www.happydesign.net