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访谈设计师:Carlos Ribau
Carlos Ribau,葡萄牙工业设计师,他是在陶瓷卫浴和水龙头、实用陶瓷和照明设计领域的佼佼者,2017德国红点奖的获奖人之一,他的设计旨在提升人们的可持续发展意识,注重通过产品传达生活中各种资源循环利用的价值。不畏惧挑战的他,今天带给我们的会是怎样一则有趣的故事呢?
嘘……保持安静,故事开始了——
Narkii:
您能不能为我们讲讲您为什么会选择工业设计这个行业?跟您平时的兴趣爱好有关吗?
Could you please tell us why would you choose industrial design as your work? Is it related to your personal interests and hobbies?
Carlos Ribau:
我一直以来就对社交行为以及人们是如何与周围的物体进行互动的很感兴趣,常常注意细小任务,以及它们为何会如此简易并体现文化差异和不同风味。
很快我就意识到我会成为一个产品设计师。
I've always been interested in social behavior and how people interact with the objects around them. Pay attention to small tasks and how they could be easier,cultural differences and tastes,etc.
Soon it began obvious to me that I would became a Product Designer.
Narkii:
您设计的产品涵盖多个领域,从儿童玩具到家居用品再到厨房卫浴,这对于您的设计思维会不会产生比较大的跳跃性与跨度性呢?
Your designing products have covered many areas, from children's toys to household articles and kitchen bath supplies, can it produce great jump and span to your design thinking?
Carlos Ribau:
只在一个领域工作,对于项目技术方面的发展是有好处的,但在某种意义上却会让你不可避免地开启机械性的思维模式,你会过多的关注工业进程而忽视与用户之间的可用性与交互性。
在不同的领域工作可以为多个工业流程提供一定的压力,同时不断激发创造性思维。
To work in only an area it is good to develop the technical aspects of the project, but at a certain point is inevitably that you will start to have a "mechanical" thinking. You will pay more attention to the industrial process and less the usability and interaction with the user.
To work in different areas gives baggage in several industrial processes and at the same time keeps stimulating the creative thinking.
2017 Red Dot Design Award TH400 - Wall mounted progressive basin mixer
Narkii:
设计品类多种多样,您有没有比较偏爱某一类设计呢?比如家具产品设计、厨房卫浴产品设计或儿童玩具系列的设计?
There is various of designing categories, do you have a preference for a certain type of design? Such as the design of household articles, kitchen bath supplies or children’s toys?
Carlos Ribau:
不,我没有任何设计类别的偏好。我所设计的产品来源取决于客户给我提供的机会或当我看到某样东西可以被设计成一个有效的产品时由我自己开发出的机会。
No, I don't have preference in any design category. It depends on the opportunities that appear booth given by a client or developed by me when I see something that could be valid as a product.
Narkii:
您认为在为儿童设计玩具类产品时,除了安全性与趣味性,还应该具备什么因素?对于儿童玩具类产品,您一般会加入什么设计元素呢?
In the design of children toys, except security and fuuny, which elements do you think should also be considered? As for the children toys, what designing elements you will add in generally?
Carlos Ribau:
我认为儿童类的产品也应该能够激发互动性,同时适合在预期年龄中进行某些方面的教学。
I think that objects for children should also stimulate interaction and be pedagogical in some aspect suitable for the intended age.
Beach Toys
Narkii:
您认为设计与生活是一种什么样的关系?一个创新型的设计能为人们带来什么?
In your opinion, what is the relationship between design and daily life? What benefits a new creative designing work can bring to people?
Carlos Ribau:
设计是日常生活中的重要组成部分,它对人们会产生各种不同的影响。我们很难定义物品对人所产生的直接或间接的联系。
我相信设计应该在“少即是多”的方法与能够和用户建立情感关系的东西之间取得平衡。
我们更多的是应该考虑工业设计中的可持续解决方案。从项目到工业进程,减少浪费是尤为重要的。
由于人类生活对这个世界造成了污染,市场正向一个清醒的状态转变,即使需要花费更多的钱,人们也开始选择购买可持续性产品。我相信这个趋势在未来几年会继续增长。
Design is a big part of the daily life and we can see it having different types of influence on people. It’s too complex to define all the relations direct or indirect that objects have on people.
I believe design should have a balance between a “less is more” approach with something that creates an emotional relation with the user.
More and more we have to look at sustainable solutions in industrial design. From the project to the industrial process it’s important to reduce waste.
The market is changing to a more conscious mentality because of the pollution created by human life in our world. People are starting to choose sustainable products even if they have to pay more. I believe this tendency will grow in the next years.
Techno Straight - Kitchen Tap
Narkii:
当您为客户设计某个产品或者当您的产品投入市场后,得到客户或市场的反馈没有预期的好,换句话说,有消费者认为这件产品实用性不高,您会怎么对待这样一件事情呢?
When you design a product for your client or after your designing products put on the market, the feedback from your client or the market may not as good as your expectation, in other words, some consumers may think the product has less practicability, how will you treat such things?
Carlos Ribau:
这是事实,并不是所有的结果都是我们从市场上期望得到的。但是产品本身不足以让它找到合适的用户。一个产品要想成功,许多方面就必须要与它保持一致,比如价格、分销方式或市场等。
很多不好的产品都取得了很大的成功,也有很多优秀的产品未出售。
这并不意味着设计永远是对的。如果产品可以纠正,我会尝试进行必要的调整,如果不是,我会把这些错误当成未来项目的学习经验。
It's true, not always the result is what we expect from the market. But the product by it self is not enough to get to the right user. There are a lot of aspects that have to be aligned for the product to be successful such as price, distribution, marketing, etc.
A lot of bad products have lots of success and there are a lot of exceptional products that don't sell.
It doesn't mean the design is always right, if the product can be corrected I try to make the necessary adjustments, if not I use the mistakes as a learn lesson for future projects.
Grow Up - Coat Hanger
Narkii:
您设计产品的灵感来源一般来源于何处?是突发性的还是是从生活中的某件事受到启发而产生了设计灵感?
Where does the inspiration source come from when you design a product? Is it comes from suddenly or inspired by something from your life?
Carlos Ribau:
看情况而定,但我通常喜欢互动。观察人类的行为,找到一些可以帮助完成产品设计任务的东西。当审美很重要时,我喜欢与用户所熟悉的文化方面相联系或与其他对象进行类比。但这没有一个固定公式,所有项目都是不同的,而且有它们自己的特殊性。
It depends but usually I like to "play" with interactions. Looking to human behavior and find something that could help the task in which the product was made for. When the aesthetic is important I like to relate with cultural aspects familiar to the user or make analogies with other objects. But there is no formula, all projects are different and have their own particularities.
Narkii:
您目前有在进行新的设计项目吗?是关于哪一类的产品设计呢?方便跟我们讲讲吗?如果没有,您有没有打算开启一个全新的设计项目?
Do you have any new designing items in progress at present? Is it convenient for you to tell us which designing product it belongs to? If not, do you plan to get down to design a brand-new item?
Ceramics
Carlos Ribau:
我正与一家葡萄牙公司开展多个合作项目,这是一家生产照明产品的公司,我是他们的永久设计师。
作为一个自由设计师我设计了一个新产品,它是一款便携式香熏扩散器,即将由来自广东省的一家中国公司Ultransmit发布,我很高兴看到最终产品以及市场对它的反馈。
At the time I'm working in several projects with Exporlux, a Portuguese company that develops and produces lighting products in which I’m a permanent designer.
Has a Freelance Designer I have designed a new product that it's about to be released by Ultransmit, a Chinese company from the province of Guangdong. It is a Portable Aroma Diffuser and I'm very exited to see the final product as well as the reaction of the market to it.
Narkii:
您设计的产品在2017年获得红点奖后,对您自己与您的设计生涯有没有产生什么影响?
What are the impacts on you and your designing career after you won the Red Dot Design Award in 2017?
Carlos Ribau:
除了能与世界上最好的品牌和设计师在一起的经历,它为我提供了参与新项目的机会。一些公司对我的产品很感兴趣并且找我讨论设计新产品。非常棒!
就个人而言,它并没有为我带来太多改变,因为我认为我们不能去过高评价这个奖项,但可以肯定的是它给了我更多的信心。
Beside the experience of being with the best brands and designers of the world, it gave me opportunity to work in new projects. Companies are interested in my work and they come to me to discuss new products. It is great!
Personally It didn't change much because I think we shouldn't overestimate the prizes, but for sure it gave me more confidence.
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