We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Quan Yuan about their original and creative Liquor Bottles design work. Quan Yuan is an award-winning communication designer, that makes our world a better place with their original liquor bottles works.
Quan Yuan ("QY") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Cool Line Liquor Bottles. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
QY : A good design must be beautiful, practical and easy to use, these are my three main principles of design. In addition, every good design should also have its anthropomorphic temperament, through this anthropomorphism to let it tell its own story. A good design speaks for itself, that's what it is all about. My design is inspired by my extensive reading and experiences, and it is only when I have enough deposits that inspiration and ideas come out.
QY : I am designing the Coolline Bottle because I want to create a container that is different from all liquors, it can't be a liquor bottle, but the feeling it gives must be a liquor bottle, a bit contradictory, but interesting. Many hobby drinkers display their favorite liquors in their homes, and as long as someone is displaying them, I've achieved my goal.
QY : I want other countries to produce and sell the Coolline Bottle, and I want to promote it all over the world.
QY : It took me more than a year to design it, the sketch period was very simple and it only took a month or two to perfect it. It took almost a year to study its structure and design joints, to 3D printing to adjust the details.
QY : I designed this product just for fun, when I was young I loved bartending and partying, I use this design to reminisce about my younger days and pay tribute to all the young people.
QY : I developed the Coolline Bottle project myself and commissioned a liquor company to produce it. I own all the intellectual property rights of Coolline Bottle, so I want to sell it in other countries in the future if possible, either by cooperating with other sales companies or by selling the copyrights to it.
QY : I designed this product just for fun, to create something that would shake up everyone's thinking, and for no other particular reason.
QY : Thickening and enlarging the line is a common design technique. The joint design of this work is original and no one else has done it, so I don't think any other design has influenced this work.
QY : Coolline Bottle's target customers are young people and liquor lovers who like to hunt.
QY : Coolline Bottle is different from all other liquor designs, there is no similar concept.
QY : Because the basic element of this design is lines, I wanted to name it with cool lines.
QY : I used Rhinoceros 3D modeling and then 3D printing.
QY : The most unique thing about this design is that it has an interesting 2D to 3D conversion, subtle positionable joints, and combinable features, all of which I like.
QY : The modeling and 3D printing of this design was done with the help of my friend Ba Tao.
QY : The difficulty of this design is the joints, but nothing else is particularly technical.
QY : I did this design for fun, and it was intuitively driven by my intuition, not influenced by data or analytical studies. 17. The challenge is to make the design work through the joints.
QY : The challenge is to make the 2D to 3D conversion of this composite object through the joint design, which has been tried and tested many times.
QY : I was just trying to sell this design to a big liquor company when one of my college friends reminded me that I could enter a design competition. I hadn't thought about it and wasn't sure if my design would be recognized internationally, but I finally decided to give it a try.
QY : Keep insisting, keep tweaking the details, revising, and try to make the product perfect with no regrets.
QY : For the time being, no more.
