We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Dragomir Å uka about their original and creative drinking fountain design work. Dragomir Å uka is an award-winning industrial designer, that makes our world a better place with their original drinking fountain works.
Dragomir Å uka ("DÅ") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Sofia drinking fountain. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
DŠ: Public space of Karlovac (Croatia), the city on 4 rivers, where I live has only one drinking fountain and it’s out of function. Urban environments deserve public access to free water as a standard of the modern civilization. For the shaping of the drinking fountain, I used natural shape of the hands that form when drinking water (cupped hands). In the further study of the shape, I used the circle as the ideal form which gave the design a recognizable and unique form. Larger cupped hands form in the base transcends into a smaller form on the top, following the radius of the circle, forming a body of the drinking fountain.
DÅ : I would have to say multifunctionality, easy adaptation to the public space, and minimalistic design
DÅ : Production would definitely be an end goal for this design as I truly believe that it deserves a place in the world
DÅ : About one month
DÅ : Most of mine designs that are made contests are a pursuit of my inspiration.
DÅ : It is not produced or used by another company but I'm open for all options.
DÅ : Moment of inspiration that coincided with a small competition in Croatia, Zagreb. Where it was awarded second place.
DÅ : Its simplicity, multifunctionality and easy adaptation to the public space.
DÅ : It is a name of my mother in law which is a woman worth remembering.
DÅ : Pen, paper, CorelDraw x7 and AutoCad
DÅ : I'm repeating my self but I think its simplicity, multifunctionality and easy adaptation to the public space.
DÅ : I collaborated with my two sons. One is an expert for 3D design and other is a freshman with a knack for marketing.
DÅ : Technology in this design is at its bare minimum. Which again sets it apart for its easy adaptation to most public spaces.
DÅ : Some simple research was conducted in terms of internet, books and magazine browsing. But it's pure original concept.
DÅ : Challenge was how to create a minimalistic design that would be equally available for people, people with disabilities and animals. Main problem here is that I wanted to create a simple forme and from that one form create this multifunctionality that would be easily adapted into any public space
DÅ : The decision was made because Croatia, a country where I live, is still a developing country and there isn't all that much room for such innovations and designs. So I decided to give it a shot with the international design competition in order to get some kind of recognition.
DÅ : Most improvements came from the preparation of this design for this competition. Most of them are reflected in the details.
DÅ : I would just like to say that it has been a pleasure and that I will for sure come back with new ideas for the next competition.
