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Anais Kim

Anais Kim is a graphic designer and artist at the XIV Biennale. Her work extends beyond the system to areas such as design symbols, motions, and typography. She enjoys freedom, and her book questions design thoughts and human relationships with everyday objects.

1Please give us a brief bio of yourself and your design background.

Hi, my name is Anais Kim. I am a Graphic designer and artist of the XIV Biennale. The artist's motif as a stainless steel work extends beyond the system to a diverse range of areas including design symbols, motions, and typography.

2What made you become/why did you choose to become a designer/artist?

As a graphic designer and part artist, my publishing book questions about design thoughts, and human relationship between everyday objects.

3Tell us more about your agency/company, job profile, and what you do.

On site plans, I always look for solutions to fill relationships with everyday objects. Geometric tools become possible in terms of productability and focus primarily on detailed gestures for impact. When reducing the axis in size, amount, or extent by careful selection of steps. Organising project objectives with stakeholders by scheduling, assembling, and publishing.

4What does “design” mean to you?

These design decisions, perhaps, could reflect the idea of the concept. The process is to turn them into symbols.

5What’s your favorite kind of design and why?

The objective stemmed from finding ways of ordering through exhibition works. Recently awarded works of art could become separate from previous projections and exhibitions. The following project seeks ways of ordering.

6To you, what makes a “good” design?

Symbolic, iconic, and essential come from complex contributions to the environment. Multiple steps are developed for the project to access the void left behind after the systematic order.

7How did you come up with the idea for your award-winning design?

Replicas of books in concrete form.

8What was your main source of inspiration for this design?

Representation of related diagrams. The key element of HAIES interacts with the viewer's reference to systems inwards.

9Do you think your country and its cultural heritage has an impact on your design process?

The context between the movements and the contact of the material often involved my thoughts and experiences as a designer and artist. HAIES is represented by its balance, logic, and simplicity in its modular design.

10Congratulations! As the winner of the French Design Awards, what does it mean to you and your company and team to receive this award distinction?

Motivating my mind, the award looks through ways to impact across boundaries.

11Can you explain a bit about the winning work you entered into the French Design Awards, and why you chose to enter this project?

This captivating combination of functional design, robust structure, and materials is all precisely completed with the use of top investigation in a range of designs. This combination gives the range its unmistakable appearance and produces a luminous feel.

12What were the main challenges you faced during the design process, and how did you overcome them?

The design of the project, took into account the type of existing architecture, integrating as much as possible the open space structure with the environment. This project is about interpersonal interaction. Subtlety has been a very important motivation for my work, but again, my take on it is quite different from the hard technological approaches you commonly see.

13How do you think winning this award will impact your future as a designer?

The project focuses on transforming dialogue into a system.

14What are your top three (3) favorite things about the design industry?

Landscape, scale, structure.

15What sets your design apart from others in the same category?

Enclosing the volumetric qualities and light surfaces of the space allows the view to extend without interruption. Balance, logic, and simplicity in modular design.

16Where do you see the evolution of design industry going over the next 5-10 years?

The site is occupied by a terraced house, the result of a complete reconstruction to meet the conventional needs of later users.

17What advice do you have for aspiring designers who want to create award-winning designs?

The choice of design takes into account active views from books and exhibitions. To take the initial idea to overwhelming impact.

18What resources would you recommend to someone who wants to improve their skills in the design industry?

Respond, take place, make perspective from everything.

19Who has inspired you in your life and why?
My family, of course, we share something extraordinary.
20What is your key to success? Any parting words of wisdom?
Combination of art and design precisely, Frieze.
21Do you have anything else you would like to add to the interview?

Selected work is also available at maison & objet:

https://mom.maison-objet.com/en/brand/20701/hatofkk

Winning Entry

Hatofkk Stool | 2024

Anais Kim | Hatofkk-Stool | French Design Awards

In Hatofkk's motif, the design object reflects a luminous time. Designed by Anais Kim. Made to order. Material: Stainless steel Moduled and integrated. Dimensions : ⌀ 44cm, H: 42CM …
(Read more at French Design Awards)


Anais Kim

Anais Kim is a graphic designer and artist at the XIV Biennale. Her work extends beyond the system to areas such as design symbols, motions, and typography. She enjoys freedom, and her book questions design thoughts and human relationships with everyday objects.


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