Interview with Mohsen Jafarimalek

Actually my design studio is very small right now, I'm working on it and like to make it bigger someday.

Design for me is to solve a problem from a daily life product or service. if we could solve one of those problems I think then we could say we design something. one of the big parts of the design is style for me. everyone like to see a beautiful solution instead of just a way out of the problems.

products with wheels! I don't know maybe it's because of my passion for car design.

my most favorite design in which category? I can name an object in each product category as my favorite. BMW Z8 is my favorite car ever, iMac second generation is one of the best all in one till now. and these days Microsoft doing very well in design I think.

I designed a marker cap for a local stationery brand with a pentagonal shape!

actually my favorite materials are natural materials like glass, wood, concrete, stone... they are pure and I feel very close to those natural elements. but one of m favorite platform/technology is 3d-printing. I think there are so much potentials in that and we just start to play with it.

it's funny but when I could shut down my brain I start to be creative!

finding the best solution for the problem and design the producible object.

freedom and some kind of adventure.

happiness of course.

I think many things are involved in a successful design. for example, the solution we find for the design brief and the way we think about the subject could be a key factor.

every object and every product around us has some layers, I think style and overall look of each object is the first layer. so the first thing may everyone evaluate on each object is style I think.

selecting material, design a life cycle for product and so on but the point is, it's not on the designer shoulders only. clients and designers could achieve this together and if the clients don't care about these and just want to get the final result it's getting very hard for designers.

it's a big question, I hope we get to a better place with AI. hope this technology helps our designers and design software to design some new forms and solutions.

I don't take part in an exhibition, I believe best exhibition for designers is store shelves and amazon website!

Nature is my biggest source, I believe we can find a solution for every problem in nature.

I like modern and minimal designs more. because they are so right to the point and pure.

I'm living in Iran right now, and yes I think all of us take effects of our region and culture. one of the powerful elements here is music, our classical music is something different for me.

most of the time using social media and communication apps. I didn't use to leave my cave!

It shouldn't be a very hard thing to find out these days, I think all designers share their works on social media and companies could find the best one on the web very easy.

the first phase is to find the best solution, searching the web and looking on the market for something close to what I want to do. after I find the solution, hand sketching, detail drawing, and start the 3d modeling.

coffee maker, lighting, phone, bathtubs, and everything we normally never like to design!

waking up, making breakfast with my wife. getting my son ready for kindergarten. start working on my projects, get lunch with my family, have fun with my son (painting, lego, bicycle,...), watch some movies or playing a video game.

you are the only one who could shape the feature, start from somewhere you think that's important. practice hard and you will get the result.

being someone who could change the style or our behavior with a product is always a great feeling for me. and I think the only negative thing is sitting indoor behind the desk or computer, the design process is a very time-consuming process.

think differently.

imagination and drawing I think.

the main tool is a piece of paper and a pencil. but if you like to know about the software, a bunch of them are available. Rhino, 3d max, Vray, Keyshot, Photoshop, and Poser are my best tools.

most of the time I break the whole process in smaller parts, start to schedule the small parts and finish them one by one.

it depends on the subject of the design job. something from one week to several months.

most times people asking about some of my winning designs, they looking to purchase some of them and asking about the right place to buy.

design and develop an ironing board based on one of my past designs for production.

most of them are start-ups all around the globe.

styling is very fun, the first impression of any product would be styling and it's always fun.

working on a device for pets, sadly I can't share any detail of the project yet. hopefully, we will lunch it next year.

most of the time I'm working alone, but for bigger projects, we hire others to help us. for our last project, we hire someone to develop the design for prototype and other pre-production things.

I love to but I think it's better to hold it for later, but it is a device for pets and hopefully next year we will lunch it to the market.

they can reach me by my email: mohsenjafarimalek@gmail.com

No, everything was fine. very detailed questions. thanks.