DI: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
: To create a lounge chair for a loft apartment or office.
DI: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
: an amazing lounge chair
DI: What are your future plans for this award winning design?
: I would like to license it to a company that can mass market it.
DI: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?
: It took me around a Month to figure it out.
DI: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?
: Inspiration+research
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?
: So far I have being custom order producing them. But the KSD-2 has such a potential that I would like to sell or lease the design.
DI: What made you design this particular type of work?
: I say, it so cool to have a lounge chair, at home or at the office. For war or piece, I liked the pictures of Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt sitting at the Tehran Conference, November 1943. although the three leaders body language is what makes this picture amazing, I would say the posture of the three have to do with the chairs as well, some how the chairs styles fit the politician believes. Stalin chair is of tall streight arm rest, little ellegant,Roosvelts is a curve arm rest beautifully crafted chair. Churchills is sitting in a lounge chair, lower sitting and deeper.
DI: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?
: I will say vintage cars and lounge chairs
DI: Who is the target customer for his design?
: Car collectors, corporate people, young couples, old couples, I have sell this chair to so many different clients.
DI: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?
: Its unique assembly.
DI: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?
: KSD stands for Khaos Design which was the name of a company I first started back in 1998. The number 2 stands for the second Lounge Chair.
DI: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?
: Good Music, Sketch books, then some Corel Draw action to polish the lines, then some 3D max for 3D views and then CAD, full size MDF prototypes
DI: What is the most unique aspect of your design?
: The arm rest curve was a try and error so when people sit on the chair and rest their arms, they feel not stock to the chair, neither throw off the chair. Is dificult to explain, but is there and is balance.
DI: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?
: With out skill people, the design could not had happen.
DI: What is the role of technology in this particular design?
: Technology is always important.
DI: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?
: I analyzed all types of lounge chairs
DI: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?
: Figuring out the assembly system and the right curvature for the arm rest
DI: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?
: To gain more prestige to the KSD-2 sold until now, find some exposure and hopefully a company that wants to produce it.
DI: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?
: every projects adds to the bag of tricks