EN Skincare Salon and Store by Yusuke Kinoshita

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DI: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?

YK : History of France and Japan.

DI: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?

YK : To create a beautiful story of cultural mixing.

DI: What are your future plans for this award winning design?

YK : I don't know.

DI: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?

YK : We found a simple concept by a discussion with everyone in the project.

DI: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?

YK : I don't know.

DI: What made you design this particular type of work?

YK : Deep research of history.

DI: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?

YK : I'm not sure.

DI: Who is the target customer for his design?

YK : Someone who is curious about other culture.

DI: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?

YK : Depth of thought.

DI: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?

YK : Is the phonetic play of Japanese word. EN means beauty, circle, and connection.

DI: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?

YK : 3d software.

DI: What is the most unique aspect of your design?

YK : Create the form (architecture) from historical references(archive).

DI: What is the role of technology in this particular design?

YK : Nothing particularly.

DI: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?

YK : Study the history and culture.

DI: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?

YK : To merge every idea to simple history telling.

DI: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?

YK : coincidence.

DI: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?

YK : To have a lot of responsibility.