We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Davide Chiesa about their original and creative chess game design work. Davide Chiesa is an award-winning industrial designer, that makes our world a better place with their original chess game works.
Davide Chiesa ("DC") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work milan chess set chess game. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
DC : The idea that new structures built in the city in the last five years and the existing famous, historical monuments could live together side by side, not only in the physical world but also in a miniature world has been immediately fascinating to me
DC : My main challenge was to celebrate the big cultural change in the Milan skyline of the last five years.
DC : this is the first product of a family of three different projects, designed over the idea that modern architecture could come in our everydaylife life
DC : The project started in Milan in January 2015 with the first sketches and has been showed for the first time at Salone del Mobile in April 2015.
DC : The idea for this project came out from my personal experience as a designer and my childhood history. The skyline of Milan is really changed in the last ten years and a skyscrapers silhouette appeared in the central part of the city. Where once my father brought me to the Luna Park, today we have a new area full of new buildings.
DC : The product is produced by Ideafactory store in Milan and sold on internet by the same company. We look forward for new commercial opportunities and partnerships.
DC : You have to know that the skyline of this city has dramatically change in the last five years and finally a skyscraper’s silhouette appeared in the central part of the city. Where once my father brought me when I was a child to the old Luna Park, today we have a totally new area, full of new buildings, I simply want to celebrate this change.
DC : I think that everyone involved with design, architecture, 3D printing could be a perfect target for this kind of design
DC : I've simply used a 3D modeling software and a 3d printer, nothing else
DC : for me telling a story in my design products is a very important part of the creation process... this product tells many stories at the same time.
DC : designer Andrea Croci from Idea Factory has been my partner for the technical drawings and working together on this concept has been very interesting
DC : as a 3d printed object, technology plays a principal role during the development of the concept. props have been so much supporting in the development of the final product that I could'nt imagine the born of my design without this kind of technology.
DC : The hardest part of this project has surely been to find the exact monuments like traditional pieces for filling a chessboard. The choice has been made over some buildings with the right proportions and a style variation that was interesting and innovating at the same time.
DC : I have been discovered by the organization and gently invited to partecipate.
