Everyone has a dream home, and home decoration designers are the dream makers. Dragon TV's flagship program "Dream Renovator" is a program that helps ordinary people create dreams. How does the well-known designer Zhu Xiaoming, who has designed multiple projects of "Dream Renovator", use his whimsical ideas to create dreams for ordinary people?
ING Zhu Xiaoming (left), founder and creative director of Yineya Design Agency, Peng Anjun, founder and editor-in-chief of Zhina (right)
Due to the invitation from the leading smart lighting brand Yeelight, after the Yeelight designer dream meeting In this exclusive interview with Zhina.com, we have invited Mr. Zhu Xiaoming, a leading designer born in the 1980s, founder and creative director of ING Design Agency, president of ZCDA Jiangnan Society, and royal designer of dream renovators, Mr. Peng Anjun and Zhu Xiaoming, founders of Zhina.com. How do designers overcome design challenges, and what are designers’ material selection criteria? How to coordinate the relationship between natural light and artificial light? What is the future imagination of intelligent lighting products such as E-Lai Qingkong® lamp? Topics such as the application prospects of smart lighting will be discussed in depth.
For the home environment, the light environment is particularly important. Teacher Zhu Xiaoming has made wonderful applications of the light environment in many episodes of the Dream Renovator program. In this dialogue, we also focus on the application of lighting and light environment from the perspective of a designer. Lighting is an important part of the home. With the continuous popularization and penetration of intelligent lighting, users' demands for personalized lighting design and control continue to emerge. Intelligent lighting, scene lighting and how lighting and space can be perfectly integrated have become lighting companies and home decoration design. Topics that teachers explore. At the same time, compared with traditional lighting, smart lighting can create a safer, energy-saving, convenient and healthy light environment for family members, achieve a more comfortable and efficient scene experience, create a specific family atmosphere, and enhance the functionality and artistry of the space. .
Q: Many of your past projects, especially the dream house renovation cases, were very challenging. How did you break through the limitations and use your creativity?
Zhu Xiaoming: Challenging projects, especially the dream house renovation cases, often involved poor floor plans and poor functionality. They are completely unequal to the volume of the space, or are inherently deficient, so their biggest feature is that they hope that designers can achieve a complete reversal of the expectations of space or home. I think the most interesting thing about challenging projects is to achieve differentiated reversal and give us designers the opportunity to use their creativity in rare challenges. This requires designers to use their past experience and even learn and sell now. In fact, for me personally, every project is a challenge to the unknown, and all I can do is create valuable designs.
In addition, the team is very important. I would like to thank partners like Yilai for helping me realize my ideas on space products. In the "Three Directions Home" project of the tenth season of "Dream Remodeler", after many discussions with E-Lai lighting designers, our team planned an intelligent lighting design plan for the lack of light in the basement and introduced E-Lai's Blue Sky® lamp products. Multiple sets of Blue Sky® lamps were used to comprehensively upgrade the light environment. Intelligent lights are softly brought into the space through the window pane shape of the ceiling, meeting the lighting needs of reading, drinking tea, and drinking in the basement, creating a comfortable and outdoor courtyard-like space. Harmonious multifunctional space.
Q: As a designer, what do you think are the criteria for selecting good products in home decoration design?
Zhu Xiaoming: I think this kind of enterprise is favored by companies that have their own down-to-earth research and development, exquisite manufacturing, and long-term, sustainable and effective self-iteration. respect. Therefore, I will select products from such companies and choose such companies as the best partners for designers.
I am very lucky that during the implementation of the dream home renovation project, I had a collision of ideas and creations with the company E-Lai, and E-Lai brought a number of surprising products, such as E-Lai Blue Sky ® lamp, it can simulate light, greatly eliminating the feeling of being blocked and dark in the basement, and can even simulate changes in sunlight and sunset based on color temperature. It can fully satisfy people's yearning for light and play a positive role in people's emotional changes.
Q: As a designer, how do you coordinate the relationship between natural light and artificial light?
Zhu Xiaoming: Space is divided into external environment and internal environment. Before writing a design, I will fully understand the changes in local weather and astronomical phenomena, an external environment that is beyond human control. Understand the characteristics of natural light and the changes brought about by its timeline, and then use artificial lighting to make up for the difference in color temperature and illumination in a controllable way and through advanced technology. When natural lighting is good, artificial lighting is used to create the atmosphere. In the case of insufficient natural lighting, to achieve "better and more beautiful", this is what I think is a good design, an interesting design that can bring unexpected surprises.
This requires designers to be good at using smart lighting products in every project, fully understand the special characteristics of lighting products such as Yi Lai, and use them skillfully rather than fully, so that the light will appear particularly transparent and suitable. In fact, in the project "Three Directions to Home" in the tenth season of "Dream Remodeler", we achieved the perfect integration of natural light and artificial light.
Q: In addition to being used in home environments, what do you think of products like Blue Sky® lamps? What is the future imagination?
Zhu Xiaoming: Light and lighting cannot be equated. Illumination is only the basic function of light, so products such as Blue Sky® lamps not only solve basic lighting needs, but also bring psychological enlightenment to the people who live there. Based on this, not only home spaces, lights and smart lights can bring a moment of tranquility to people in future reading spaces, public spaces, including densely populated transportation hub spaces. Therefore, the use scenarios of smart lighting products such as Aozong® lamp can be said to be very broad.
As I mentioned above, in internal and external environments with poor lighting conditions or uncontrollable conditions, E-Lai’s Qingkong® lamps can help make up for the shortcomings of the hard space environment in home decoration, realize dream renovation, and reverse Party A’s home decoration. Changes in demand bring healthy, comfortable lighting experience and happy home atmosphere.
Q: What do you think of the prospects of smart lighting applications?
Zhu Xiaoming: After the epidemic is lifted, after people take off their masks, I think more people will want to take off their inner masks and pursue sunshine, convenience, humanity, intelligence and the pursuit of justice. Yearning for light. In this context, I think healthy, environmentally friendly, and convenient smart lighting is of great significance.
Especially now that the proportion of aging people is increasing, including the national policy of encouraging childbirth, the age-respecting and child-friendly designs in our home industry can be said to be inseparable from the clever use of light. In this environment, lighting is not only illumination, it can also bring companionship, guidance, and the value of lighting up the heart.
How a small home can meet diversified and differentiated functions in a limited space, lighting is an important part. Compared with traditional lighting, smart lighting is more functional, safer, energy-saving, convenient, comfortable and efficient. Smart lighting can be used to create a specific home atmosphere, enhance the functionality and artistry of the space, and even achieve psychological healing effects.
In summary, designer Zhu Xiaoming faced the challenges in design and worked with partners such as Yilai to create a dream home, create a healthy and comfortable light environment and living space for families, and promote the green and intelligent development of the lighting industry.
As a well-known brand leading the smart lighting industry, E-Lai has always focused on technological breakthroughs and constantly iterated on good products and designs. With its conscientious attitude, concept of making good products, excellent product quality and diversified functions, it has been highly praised by the industry. Now E-Lai has become an important and trustworthy partner for customers and designers in the industry.
Zhi Na hopes that the value of smart lighting, including smart homes, will be seen by more and more home decoration designers in the future. He also hopes that good companies like E-Lai and good products will be used by more designers.
