Interview with Napoleon M. Haboc

Currently, i am working as full-time in-house designer under a Taiwanese Lighting Company here in Guangdong Province, China. But i'm still looking forward to advertise my personal Design business -"NAPOLEONHWORKS". I work mainly for Decorative home decor product designing.

Design is a product of one's creative imagination. It is the art of conceiving and producing solution rationally, logically, sequentially to solve problems in our daily lives. It is a blending of aesthetic and functionality.

I prefer designing decorative lighting products, but i can design furniture and home decorative accessories as well.

Crawl Lamp- My entry for A design awards. Maybe because it's my very first entry for lighting design competition and at the same my first time to win such competition.

Home decorative accessories.

Natural/My macbook

When i see beautiful nature. I love nature and this is always my inspiration for most of my design.

Form and function.

If i'm in a positive mood, i work better. My emotion affects what i'm doing so i always make sure i'm in positive normal feeling before doing my job.

Of course, i am happy every time i'm seeing my design being materialized and successful.

For me, originality, form and its function.

For me, functionality before anything else.

Designers should be responsible for developing and creating designs that can help solve problems in our daily lives.

Before, pencil is the tool for concept making. Right now, we are living in the world of digital era, everything can be done thru computer for as long as you have your personal softwares. Visualization is where concept begins. The computer can't do that for us. Medieval masons literally built castles in the air, in their minds, before they built them on the ground. That's what we have to learn to do again. If we don't, the brilliance of digital designs will grow increasingly empty.

I always observe nature. Nature is my best inspiration for most of my designs. For me, Nature is the original designer.

I try to be as diverse as possible because on my experience with working in various companies, and owners have different design taste and preferences. By diversifying my style i have a better chance of getting a job to any company with one style. It always depend on the project i'm doing with which style I choose. I always concentrate to finish all my goals in my daily design works.

I'm currently working as in-house designer under a Taiwanese Lighting Manufacturer but i'm still accepting design freelance work as well from other companies for as long as it will not affect the business line of my current employer. It may be by project or per hour. I always see to it this will not affect my current work too so i'm always checking my work loads before accepting freelance jobs.

I'm always busy. But better busy than doing nothing. I'm always occupied by my daily task, but i'm happy about my job.

Failures is always a part of our life but never give up in achieving something. As they say," before a man can win, he must be beaten"... Our thoughts affects our moods so always think positively and just continue what you love to do.

To become a designer, is a gamble! You are gambling your concepts. Sometimes, it pays well, sometimes it's not.

Just observe nature and you will have a good and unique concept.

Basic rough sketching and keen logical observation!

Pencil and eraser for rough concept sketching. I'm using Adobe illustrator (with CAD plug-in), Photoshop and Strata 3D as my design softwares and mac is my platform. I have several books for inspirations as well.

I always put work first before relaxation. I always make sure, everything in my schedule is systematized. I always try to finish priority before anything else. I will perform some personal overtime at home if needed.

It depends on the concept you are making.

What am i designing.

Working as a decorative lighting product designer. I really learned a lot from it!

Some of my clients are local manufacturers in China

Decorative lighting product designing. Maybe because it works well for me and i've been doing this for how many years.

To advertise my Design business as well as my award winning design.

I worked before with a design team in my previous employment, but currently, i'm developing designs by myself whatever my employer, or our customer ask me to.

I have. But i respect my employer's privacy. Whatever designs i'm making for him, it's merely for him to protect our mutual interest.

They can email me thru polliao@yahoo.com, or call me thru (86)-13790383830