Issue No.22 - International Edition Polo De’Marco Magazine - International Edition | Page 135

Designers tend to work alone
- have you ever worked with
anyone or co-produced a
product to make the final
design? The legacy you have led when
it comes to design is ‘luxurious
and bespoke’. How do you want
to be remembered? And will
you have an heir to continue the
legacy? Lastly, what would you tell a
designer who want to get into
the industry and what advice
would you give them to become
successful?
Well actually, most designers work within
agencies or companies, only very few can
work “solo” in the world of product or industrial
design. Opportunities are extremely scarce
due to high costs of developments.However,
it is necessary to point out that even if you
work “solo”, you are still part of the process, you
might be the creative head that together with
the client’s approval decides what to do, but
you still have to abide limitations of industrial
and manufacturing processes and work with
engineers and manufacturers to make sure
what you design is manufacturable and gets I’ve already done things I am content with,
but I think I am yet to do the things I will be
remembered for – or at least hope that will be
the case. I would like to gradually introduce my
knowledge to a larger scale, moving onto larger
product exe-cutions and architecture. I was
fortunate to grow up in an extremely visually
and aesthetically potent environment, which
I dare say probably had very few equals in the
past and I would like to pass this not only to my
next ambitious projects, but naturally to an
heir or someone who will be able to soak
up what I had learned previously and carry You have to be ambitious, look not one, but
two corners ahead, never have an intention
to compro-mise (although in some cases you
will have to) and understand things take time,
unfortunately a lot more time that one would
expect, such is life. Also understand that it does
not matter how great you are, unless nobody
knows, nobody will ap-preciate that fact. Very
talented people sometimes forget they are
still part of a human world and they need to
interact with others and form relationships.
I have formed great relationships with some
of my clients, and the humane aspect of those
manufactured in the shape and quality you
envision. on the torch. can be eventually very useful and fruitful for the
work process – and the result of it as well.