Interview with Andy Tseng of SHOWDESIGN

The main reason that inspired me to be a designer is the guests that have stayed at our hotel. Seeing the satisfied smiles on their faces makes me determined to become a designer.

Our company is engaged in various business projects, including self-built properties, renovation of old buildings, commercial space design, interior space design, system furniture and kitchenware, as well as government public works construction. I am the manager in the company. I am in charge of the company's operational planning and the design planning of all projects.

Design means my interest and sense of accomplishment. I enjoy seeing the happy expressions on my clients' faces when they see the work I've done for them. This is the reason why I love design and what supports me to keep motivating.

My favorite type of interior design is residential (home) design. I hope to help my clients feel relaxed by living in a cozy space we designed after a busy day at work.

As for me, a good design is not only to achieve the client’s needs but also make them feel free within a limited space.

My style is a modern minimalistic. The main feature is to maximize the limited space and create more available spaces for the clients.

Step 1 : Listen - Listen to the client’s needs and ideas.

Step 2 : Analyze - Help the client’s gets to know what is the design they truly need.

Step 3 : Integrate - Combine the client's ideals with the practical situation.

Step 4 : Advise - Give the client the best design project advice

Step 5 : Finalize - The client makes the final decision on the design plan.

Yes, I do. The impact is quite great. Since the lifestyle in our country tends to be more practical, so my design style is mostly close to modern minimalism and it also influences me to unconsciously focus on maximizing the client's storage space.

Being able to receive the award, I am very surprised and glad. After all, there were so many participants from different countries, and their works were all excellent. I am grateful to get this such a high praise of my work from the judges. Winning this award is a great recognition for both my company and myself. It makes us feel worth it in putting all the efforts to keep taking challenges in the future.

When I designed Juzhen, just like its name, I hoped to create a commercial space that was no longer a place for work or business negotiations but a place that could bring warm, relaxing, and a strong sense of design to our clients. Therefore, I designed children's play area, office area, meeting area, and material display area into an open space to make clients not be distracted for their kids while discussing the project.

Through the design, it also let the family find out their own spaces and enhance their relationship. Because of this concept, I hope have more people get familiar with my design by taking a part in design contests to prove whether my design idea can be interested or not.

The biggest challenge was how to integrate the four major areas of children's play area, office area, meeting area, and material display area into a 23 square meters space within a limited budget.

I really appreciate the judges give me such a great evaluation on my piece. Having it was an undoubtedly a great affirmation to my design. It gives me even more motivation to strive for excellence. I hope that through my designs, my clients can have more smiles on the faces.

(1) Communicate with clients: During the communication, it brings me a lot of inspirations on the design.

(2) Planning and design: Incorporating clients' ideas into reality gives me a sense of superiority.

(3) Client site inspection and acceptance: Inspecting the site together with the client is one of my favorite things because seeing the smile on their face is the biggest sense of achievement for me.

I think it is the construction quality. We emphasize on the quality of construction, and record in detail the entire process to ensure that our clients can trust us completely during the construction process.

In my opinion, the future of the design industry will be guided by construction quality, as AI may be able to complete over 80% of the design work in the future. Therefore, the quality of construction will determine whether a company will be eliminated or not.

You should treat every client's project as if it were your own home and design and plan accordingly. It's important to understand the works and design concepts of each award winner, which can increase your chances to win awards.

(1) Learning by doing is the fast way. It ensure that the design drawings are feasible for construction.

(2) Understanding the works and design concepts of each award winner can help quickly enhance one's own design concepts.

Designing is a hard working because you need to spend a lot of time learning new things. You also need to practice a lot, and do the modification all the time in order to produce a good work. So doing design is a hard-working industry.

Every client in my life is my teacher because each of them has their own ideas and needs. Through communication and coordination with them, new design inspirations will pop out from my mind. When people ask me who inspires my design inspirations, I will say is my clients.

I think that work hard is the key to my success. Only keep working hard can make you have chance to be successful. I would like to share a sentence with guys, “It said that the opportunity is for those who are prepared.”