Interview with Yi-Hsun Hsu
Yi-Hsun Hsu recently earned her BFA in Industrial Design from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
Designer Interview
20 April 2016
I recently earned my BFA in Industrial Design from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. I always enjoy making craft and designing easy-made toys for myself when I was a kid. Usually, I would handmade gifts for friends and my parents. There is always an invisible power that pull me into design's path. I really enjoying floating in the field of design where my passion belongs.
CCA / California College of the Arts is not only a design school, but a wonderful place full of creative designers, educators, advocates and social-changers. "Make ART that matters" is Motto for everyone in CCA to keep in mind. The college prepares students for lifelong creative work by cultivating innovation, community engagement, and social and environmental responsibility.
I believe that design is having love and empathy to the surroundings and provides effective and fresh solutions with happiness. It is like having someone surprisingly opens a gift that is customized designed by me.
I love making things that bring happiness to people or make a better world. It could be a gift, a toy, or even a first aid kit that save people from disaster.
Daan Roosegaarde's Smog Free Project provides people a better environment with clean air. It erases air pollution in city with large scale air purifying tower, and turns useless smog into rings. I think it is a clever solution that he thought about turning smog into useful items. Not only does he benefits the environment, but also people's health.
Stone and wood/ Pinterest / Camera.
Giving products identities and characteristic.
Emotion and interaction that a design could brings to people.
Anxious, exciting, passionate and joyful.
Grateful and exiting.
When it brings a better world and better life habits.
Its concept/ Is it really solve the problems?
Creates sustainable products that have longer lifetime.
Design is compatible with our lives. Future: Design is compatible with human beings.
My last exhibition was in Lime Lab in San Francisco U.S.A.
My inspiration often comes from my daily lives and people's life style around me. I love to watch movies and travels, which provides me inspiration to brainstorm ideas.
Delightful and lively.
I live in Taiwan. pros: People work here often work efficiently. Cons: They care more about marketing than its concepts sometimes.
1, Exchanging ideas with each other and mix them well together. 2, Understand profoundly about what the companies want and what's their target users and place.
Define problems, Research, Interviews, Target Users, Brainstorming, Ideation Sketches, Function v.s. Aesthetic, Final Sketches, CAD models, Materials, Rendering, Model Making, Video Editing
Dyson fans, Apple Mac, Fujifilm instax, Boom Speaker, Lightair air purifier
Positive: get to be with design everyday from morning to night. Negative: less time to spend on other things.
Brainstorming, Sketching, cad models
Solidworks, Rhino, Keyshot, Indesign, Photoshop
Spending 80% time on defining problems and 20% time on coming up solutions. Don't ever brainstorming at late night, its time for sleep only.
3 months to one year.
Furniture Designer at One Community Global
Own a gift shop that brings people with surprise and joy.
I recently work on a pipe furniture design, the goal is to create DIY instructions for those of who want to make their own furniture.
Email: yhsu2@cca.edu