Interview with Ryohei Kanda

I design from commercial space to residential, living environment, product, and buildings. I am looking forward in the close future to work on a design of a five star hotel.

A good designer is often consumed, while a great designer does not get consumed.

A really good design is timeless, and filled with originality. Evaluation of such design depends on the effort of giving birth to the design, and the respect of transcending its message to the world.

To everyone, to all who would be around me.

There are a lot of projects not yet realized.

A football player, a chef, or a patissier.

Design for me is creating a timeless beautiful appearance within a given space.

It is not a specific person, but the most support comes from lessons I learnt from the company where I worked before.

I am currently working on a design of a boutique hotel. I look forward to design more projects in the future.

The goal is to have my designs necessary for the people’s happinesss.

Design can create a better influence to the society as beautiful things and functional spaces increase.

The current project that I am working on, and football sessions twice a week!

Truly, a great design like football crosses a border, makes people forget their nationality, and attracts people.
Design like football can achieve things neither a diplomat or a politician can do easily.

I don’t think that influence of trend in design will ever end, but there will be a time when anybody can undertake designs that follow trends. In fact there may be a time when design can be easily made using an i-phone application. The more time shifts on that side, a designer who can design with originality will be treasured.

To say it simple, a positive action.

A design that is not influenced by trend, a design being timeless at the same time having originality.

Timeless and original things concluded itself as a beautiful existence. It is not so different from a piece of art. I like a design that crosses the border of art and design.

Designed Italian restaurant.

No specific favorites.

Within everyday life.

Not materiality, but the atmosphere.

I feel excited at the moment when whatever made within your imagination gradually realize into a real shape.

Patience, endurance.

One has to have an attitude of justice towards any society.

The future of design, I think will be equalized. There may be a time where design will eventually derive solely from machine’s calculation. That is why it is important to maintain the value of a designer by each of us believing in your feeling of beauty, and keep on searching for your originality.

Inspiration comes from the moment watching the blossoms. The scene of blossoms carried away by the wind, falling onto the ground leaving a carpet of petals, is truly beautiful. This was what I wanted to design. I find beauty in little things that happen in everyday life. In a commercial design, it is difficult to challenge on a new material, in terms of cost and construction timelines. It is important to take an existing material and to find a way to give them a new appearance. When one material unites with another material, there may be a chemical reaction, and these are the hints that I find in everyday life.

I would like to design things that cross the border of art and design. This is not something that could be achieved by following a trend or something that other designers do, but it is more about concluding the design into a one beautiful shape. A shape that is good to the society and the clients.

I live in Tokyo but I grew up in Yokohama. I don’t know if Yokohama has a specific characteristic, but there is a notion of wabi – sabi in the Japanese tradition. Something like the simplicity of beauty that exists without arrogance, which could be found in the Japanese people’s lives.

By numerous communication with clients.

To improve a given condition, in a positive way. The fact that the process leading to the conclusion is often not valued.

The skills to transcend your vision to other. Skecth, CG, words.

Design is not born only from desks, so I make time to go out, meet people for input.

A client having a similar value towards design. One does not value something by the trend, but from the essence.

Through friends.