Interview

Interview One

 Introduction:

This interview is about Iris, who is a famous furniture maker and designer, especially her skills in DIY room design. Iris has been work with furniture 15 years and she has won lots of design award in China. During the next interview, Iris will share her many years' working experience on furniture and explain her unique idea.

Designer: Iris

1. What are the advantages of being a maker and designer.?

2. What do you regard as your greatest success in your career?

3. How do think your team changed to keep up with new technologies?

4. Which part do you think is the most important of a furniture?

5. Why do you so keen on DIY furniture design and DIY design can bring what to your mind?

Answer:

1. As a Children, when I saw some beautiful furniture, I hope one day I can use the furniture which all are designed by myself. Through my experience as a maker and designer, I have an unique understanding of materials and processes. That can help me to build up confidence on solve any problem when I worked with furniture.

2.The most rewarding moments in my career so far should be a successful revolution of your father company's new products. After the 2008 finance crisis, many furniture companies are shocked by such a big crisis. But your father predict it before it happened, he asked me to improve our products and established the new furniture style into the market. Fortunately, the result is very good. Our products are satisfied with out new products. It is because that in China market only our company got the new products. So, your father lose a little in the finance crisis. That make me feel very Honor.

3.Recently, advanced computer skills have revolutionised the availability of information and consumer choice and manufacturing systems and design methods. However, the impact  has not fundamentally changed the work of designer-makers, simply It added new techniques when we are working. So, our team need to learn computer skills and apply the technology into our work.

4.Some people think materials come first. If you got a good and natural materials, customer will be happy. Because they can use it for a long time. In my opinion, design come first. A good furniture not only need a good materials, but also a unique design is the most important. Design ideas come from every details in our life. So, only a talent designer can catch it in our daily life.

5. Yeah, you know I got two little Children. Long time work overseas make me have few time to accompany with my family. I often decorate my room as a colour world, because my Children like it. At least, color can bring happiness to them. In fact DIY design is a hard work, but it certainly bring many good ideas to me.

Interview Two

Introduction:

1.Can you tell me about your furniture store?

2. Can you tell me some products here, which are the customers' favourite?

3.What styles of furniture do you sell in your store?

4. What come first? The materials or the design?

5.What makes your furniture different from other furniture store?

6. Would you like to sell creative furniture design in your furniture shop?

Scott as a sales management, he accepted my interview, and he bring me to visit their furniture store in city centre. Scoott as a sale manager, he has work two years in London, and two years in Liverpool, and he moved to work in Preston 2011. Why he comes to Preston is because that his boss is his good friends, and he needs scoot's help. Later, I visit their shop. There furniture are really beautiful, and there are so much creative furniture design which are my interesting. Thanks for him to introduce their product. Their audiences are between age 30-40, and his boss said that they are happy to sell more creative furniture in their store, because many people want to buy it.

This interview was taken in city centre, and the Chinese guys name Jack. Jack comes from ShangHai, and he study master in Uclan. Three years life in Preston, Jack almost visit every furniture shop. According to our conversation, Jack told me that he often buy visit some furniture shop in city centre, because he like furniture. He want to buy some furniture in his new room. He accepted my interview and told me he was interested in creative furniture design. So I introduce my furniture blog to him, fortunately he like special furniture. Later, he will follow my furniture blog and gave me some suggestion and buy some thing from my blog.