Interview with:Magony, Zsuzsanna [zsmagony]
DESIGN
 | What is your specialty? fashion design, urban nomad style |
| Where can we view your portfolio online? www.magonyzsuzsanna.com
www.myspace.com/magonyzsuzsanna |
| What made you interested in design? I have always been interested in any kind of arts. When I was 15, I started to create my clothes. I became loved with this. This made me interested in design. |
| What has been your professional career path? First I started to make clothes myself. Than I wanted to study more about fashion. I have done an clothing engineer BA degree, a fashion designer MA degree and a design manager MA degree. I graduated in 2006, and 2007. During this time I created collections, took part in competitions, applied awards. I have received the Hungarian Design Award in 2008 and the Moholy-Nagy Design Grant three times. These helped me to be known. Now, I am working, people likes my stuffs. And I am happy. |
| Have you received any awards for your work in the field of design? Hungarian Design Award 2008
Moholy-Nagy Design Grant 2007, 2008, 2009 |
| What is your motivation? What makes you get up in the mornings? My dream is a well functioning business including clothing atelier and designer jobs, as well. |
| How would you define your design style? My design focuses on urban nomad lifestyle. I am interested in solving problems of travelling by public transport in a metropolis. My clothes are transformeables and are able to avoid against traffic with reflecting parts. |
| How do you promote and move your work? I am selling my products in design shops, design fairs and on webshops. |
| In which new areas would you like to experiment? I love creating really elegant clothes. Elegance is an forgot function. I would like to work with it. |
| Shapes, color, concept: where do you usually begin when conceiving a design? I always has a strong concept, then I tell it with a shape. Color is a secondary maintance in my work. |
| What are your sources for documentation and to generate ideas? Everywhere |
| Which festivals or awards in your field do you find most interesting? Mittelmoda, ITS8, MUJI |
| What is your favourite type of customer? Who know what they want, but intrested in my mind. |
| To a certain point, is copying justifiable? no |
| List some things you dislike seeing in design. postmodern, chineese copies |
| Do you believe the newer generations are better at designing? I don't think so. Everybody is inspired of his or her own life. Every life are different, but I don't think that there would be better in the past, or in the future. |
| With which type of client would you decline in working for? Who ask for me something I don't know. |
| How do you calculate budgets for a design project? Materials, plus every type of working fee, plus tax. |
| Which professionals in your field -contemporary or past- do you most admire? Hussein Calayan, Gabrielle Chanel, Leonardo da Vinci |
| Which software applications do you most utilize in your work? Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign |
| Up to what point do your designs reflect your personality? Design is a way of communication...It reflects my personality, as it does client's do. |
| How do you distinguish passing fads from mainstays in new trends? Trend is only a direction for me. |
| If you weren't a designer, what would you be doing? I would be a writer. |
| At this moment, what would be your dream job or project? A lot of highly paid design work. |
| Can you see yourself in this field twenty years from now? No, I'm creating my future now. |
| Which design resources online do you frequently visit? www.style.com |
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Magony, Zsuzsanna
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