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Ren Huang Fang

Fang utilizes his talent for design to create ingenious brand packaging visuals that looks sincere, simple, and unique.



Interview with the 2020 MUSE Design Awards Winner - Ren Huang Fang

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

The design studio from Taiwan has been established for 12 years. It is committed to producing design works with ideas and connotations, so that commercial packaging has an artistic sense of value.

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

When I was growing up, I discovered the talent for painting, but it was very hard to be an artist in Taiwan. After evaluating, I naturally chose the design industry to keep my interest and a balance in income.

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

Compared with foreign countries, Taiwan’s commercial market is obviously inferior in its acceptance of creativity and aesthetic forms. How to make customers pay willingly while maintaining the creative beauty of the products has always been the part I am striving for, and I find it the most difficult and hardest.

4What does “design” mean to you?

For me, design can change your outlook in life. It can reflect personal views on things. High-quality works will be good. The logic of the design can be applied to many aspects of life, such as entrepreneurship, interpersonal relationships, and family financial investment.

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

I like brand packaging design the most, because I can read the designer’s ingenuity carefully and techniques repeatedly under static conditions.

6To you, what makes a “good” design?

Good design is sincere, simple and not fancy, where simplified concepts combine with uniqueness.

7Describe your design style and its main characteristics.

I personally like subtractive design, and don't like overly complex pictures. I also like moderate white space so the viewer can read well in the picture.

8Tell us about your design process.

Data collection, field investigation, actual discussion, draft thought, proposal discussion, finalized revision, and finally, final draft.

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

Taiwan has been colonized by the Netherlands, Spain, and Japan in the past few hundred years. Therefore, the mixed and matched Chinese and Western cultural characteristics are what I have observed. This affects me when I design, but I will not be too obsessed with my personal point of view, as I use a more deliberate perspective. Thinking is more objective.

10Congratulations! As the winner of the 2020 MUSE Design Awards, what does it mean to you and your company and team to receive this award distinction?

To get such recognition, the incentive must be stronger and more resilient, and in the face of the ruthless destruction of the market, we can only try to persist to maintain this original intention in the future.

11Can you explain a bit about the winning work you entered into the 2020 MUSE Design Awards, and why you chose to enter this project?

Because packaging is our most frequently produced item, it is natural to want to participate in this project. At the same time, we can prove our strength to customers after winning the award.

12What was the biggest challenge with this project?

Tea leaf residue is used to make the packaging material. The production process must integrate filtered tea residue with handmade paper.

Environmentally-friendly ink is then printed on the handmade long fiber paper, adhering to the spirit of environment protection.

13How has winning an Award developed your practice/career?

It should allow more new customers to understand that our profession is recognized internationally.

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

Innovation breakthrough, personal uniqueness, simple style.

15What makes your country specifically, unique in the design industry?

In recent years, I have observed that Taiwan is a democratic country, so there are more and more diverse designs recently. I think this is a good thing.

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

Artisan designers will gradually be replaced by artificial intelligence, and the increase in environmental awareness will reduce excessive packaging, which is beneficial to the world environment.

17If you were a student entering this industry or an aspiring MUSE Design Awards submitter, what advice would you give them?

Figure out why you want to enter this industry. If you are going to die tomorrow, will you still want to do design in the first place? With such determination, success will come sooner or later.

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

Read more books in fields other than design, and then apply it.

19Tell us something you have never told anyone else.

In fact, I have always hated catering to customers because it leaves me without myself.

20Who has inspired you in your life and why?

In the past few years, the birth of three children has transformed my identity into the role of a father, which makes me work harder and look at things more diversely.

21What is your key to success? Any parting words of wisdom?

Great wisdom is foolish.



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onebook Design Studio is committed to producing design works with ideas and connotations, giving an artistic value to all commercial packaging.

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