Interview with Unto

Finding small solutions, but solutions nevertheless, to a world that has so many problems.

Choose, of course, Asian parents usually force you to not be one, so quite the contrary.

Not limited to any category, but we hope to design to last.

Know what moves you and strive to be better at it.

The greater the urge and attempt to achieve a harmonious balance between usefulness, functionality, aesthetics, means of production, and making an object or experience speak to our emotions.

Its only accurate to refer to Dieter Ram's "10 principle of Good Design", we cannot agree more.

The world has unsolvable issues, and it just throws one over the top, for instance, poverty and pollution. But good design can be small solutions, that builds towards making this world a better place. By tackling those unsolvable issues in any creative perspectives or just opening a new dialogue.

Design solutions to communities in need (mostly related to education, wellness and health issues).

A set of furniture

Theres plenty, to speak of some: Dieter Rams, Oki Sato and Tadao Ando.

We are a fan of objects that speak for themselves, one of our favorite design is Rams’s wall-mounted audio system. Comprised of two speakers, a tape recorder and a control unit, it was first made in 1964. The form is so simple with the intuitive functionality. The quiet appearance and tactile detail make the product shines for generations.

Stop being a designer, try to be a user, a craftsmen, a manufacturer. And soak up this world of information but stay tune and refine what you choose to put on your plate.

Psychologist or recently i am thinking an awful lot on farming.

A creative communication with aesthetics.

Start from bring a user, the end receiver, the manufacturer, anything but the designer.

Design sets the trends, for sure, a good design is meant to last and serves as classic.

Think we’d be emotional. Passionate and feel inspired.

We perceive our role as bridges that connects different fields and perspectives, linking between crafts, industry, objects, users, between people and the nature we live in including the historical, political and social forces that have shaped our environment. Therefore, design is finding what seems to one as an appropriate relationship and realizing that in a beautiful manner.

We like to design things with a poetic touch.

We are a fan of objects that speak for themselves, one of our favorite design is Rams’s wall-mounted audio system. Comprised of two speakers, a tape recorder and a control unit, it was first made in 1964. The form is so simple with the intuitive functionality. The quiet appearance and tactile detail make the product shines for generations.

Branding and interior design for Japanese cuisine in SoHo, Manhattan

We are excited to be in contact with various of materials that our project should lead us to. But often times we find ourselves coming back to what have always been the familiar building blocks such as wood, glass, stones(minerals) and ceramic.

When challenged. That is when creativity is called for, in a circumstance that a solution is needed and resources is limited.

It would be design research, and trying to think out of norms in order to find a fresh and suitable answer for a solution to better user experience.

The strong desire for the unknown.

The exclamations of joy.

When the object or experience is made better, by finding a harmonious balance between usefulness, functionality, aesthetics, means of production, and most of all speaks to our emotions.

If the design brings anything valuable or interesting to the table.

Designers are repositories of desire. They vitalize the imagination and drive consumption. They inspire the world to see things be different and believe we can progress toward that imaginary world to making our dream comes true.

Design plays a fundamental role is sustainability because its the design that determines which resources are employed and how they are used. Design field after post war was aimed to make life better, nowadays we are in an unbalance designboom and great consumption. The future of design should take the responsibility to fix the issues, make the value of reduce, reuse and recycle to construct a healthier world.

Tokyo, Japan in Spring 2019
Taipei, Taiwan in summer 2020

We are the designers who propagates to work in sync with nature.

We design by constantly challenging the way we perceive things, and hoping to bring fresh dialogues and perspectives. We want our design to speak for itself, and so not adding too much characteristics if not necessary. In the style language, we take on a style that is rather minimal, and usually nature inspired.

Growing up in multicultural background, and currently back in the hometown, Taipei, it has been repositioning ourselves to discover the roots that's part of our identity.

Life is a rollercoaster we all learnt from struggles.

Meditation, research, sketching, model making.

We feel like the design does not separate work from life, it is interweaved together and by managing the time is to find the balance of soaking up life and inspirations, could be small things or a planned trip, and being diligent and on top of deadlines at the same time.