We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer about their original and creative design work. is an award-winning creative designer, that makes our world a better place with their original works.
("") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work . Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
: The main principle is very straight forward; this product exists because of the temporary need of creating and managing an accessible water flow in a dedicated space, so I wanted this product to signify its reason of existence, so the idea and the inspiration were naturally about fluids, fluid behaviors, drain and finally their combination vortex.
: What I wanted to achieve was in fact rather unorthodox because my scenario was about an alien race or call it some intelligent life who has never seen anything like a conventional washbasin or has never seen anything like a washbasin somehow ends up at this planet and my goal was, using this life form’s universal understanding of physics to make him/her/etc. understand that this object was made to accompany something to do with fluids and drain.
: Well of course I want to see this design realized which means I want this design to be produced then I want to see it in nice stores and maybe in time I want to come across with it at a friend’s apartment, but these are not plans these are my expectations and hopes but my plans are focused on making at least some of them true.
: Well the concept stage was a bit short but the CAD drawings and the fluid simulations, I mean learning to use the fluid simulation software plus working on it and adding the renders, it was about 3-4 weeks.
: At the time I had an opportunity to have a meeting with a known company at this industry. I had roughly about a month before this meeting, but I had no experience at this particular field at the time. Instead of trying to convince this company that I was capable of designing at this field I decided to do a little bit of concept development so it would have been easier at the meeting. This is how I started this project and unfortunately the meeting never happened so I kept on working on the project myself because it was very intriguing.
: As I said before it is not used by any company and I am open to suggestions regarding to selling or leasing the production rights of this product.
: I started the project without looking at other designs I thought that seeing other approaches might influence my work, but once I had my concept I did make a lot of research about different approaches to the same design problem because I wanted to be sure that this was really an original approach to the field so instead of looking for influence or inspiration by other designers and designs I made myself sure that I wasn’t influenced and this approach wasn’t already thought before.
: This is a bit cliché isn’t it? At least for this specific situation, so I am going to say for aliens who have never seen a wash basin before.
: The corner stone is Rhinoceros for all the 3D modeling and then Real Flow for fluid simulation and Maxwell Render for renders.
: I believe the most unique aspect is the strength of the concept because it is very easy to make sense of all the connections and the references plus as an object it looks so dominant in space.
: I regularly get technical feedback from a couple of engineers who are specialized in the area to be sure what I thought was possible; was really possible.
: Technology plays two decisive roles First is for; making the molds and making sure all the little details of the form is accurate because the shape is too complicated for traditional means of mold making. Second is for, the materials and the coatings without high-performance ceramics and nonstick glaze this proportions wouldn’t be possible.
: I used the fluid simulation tools for the placement of the tap by making sure the spiral path of draining water is what I wanted.
: I am not very sure about telling this, but this is my first participation to a design competition. I had some personal arguments especially for competitions held by big companies when I was I student, so I never entered one. The really interesting part started when I moved to Paris at the time I was new to the city and some of our family friend’s invited me to a fortune telling evening event and I had nothing to do eventually I went there, so the long story short some woman whom I have never met before in my life insisted that I must participate to design competitions, and that was really the first time when I considered participating to a design competition.
