We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Xiaofei Cui about their original and creative Bar Counter design work. Xiaofei Cui is an award-winning industrial designer, that makes our world a better place with their original bar counter works.
Xiaofei Cui ("XC") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Positive Negative Bar Counter . Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
XC : In this case, I believe the nature is beautiful, and the form can also be the function.
XC : As I mentioned above, I am trying to realize the new relationship between form and function through this project.
XC : I don't have a specific plan actually, life is a day by day, same as to do the project, I will continue to focus on some design field that I am really interested in.
XC : Around half year.
XC : This is not a commercial product design project, I just to pursuit an inspiration based on my research.
XC : Yes, I have plan to sell this design if possible.
XC : From the research of human behavior and environment.
XC : The name of this design comes from the understanding of the matter and space just by myself, in my opinion, design is create matters, matters will occupy space, space will have positive and negative, and for this project the form of the bar counter one is the positive and another one is negative, that's it.
XC : Yafei Ma, she is one of my former students working with me for this design.
XC : Actually there are two obstacles have to overcome in the design process: one is how to control the overall shape, another is the complexity of processing.
XC : One of the reasons is I really like the trophy design of this competition, it's quite beautiful.
