Interview
1 Please give us a brief bio of yourself and your design background.
ENGI Interior Design studio was founded by Natalia Gogolieva in 2014 in Kyiv, Ukraine. The operation team is experienced and has an outstanding knowledge, dedicated to an interior and exterior design development for commercial real estate, apartments and buildings. Team
2 What made you become/why did you choose to become a designer/artist?
All I loved when a child was painting and drawing. When I started my university education, I didn
3 Tell us more about your business/company, job profile, and what you do.
We are a design studio, founded in Kyiv, Ukraine in 2014. We develop many architect designs all over our country
4 What does “design” mean to you?
Designing is a professional field, where creative guys with engineering mind come together and where they solve many global issues. The main essential solution for the human is a beauty, comfort and utility. No one is ever interested how it was achieved, but everyone simple uses the result. Therefore, design became essential, as it is worthwhile. I have chosen this profession namely for this reason - I feel that I can be useful to this world and will do the best I can. So that the design that our ENGI Interior Design studio makes could give joy and comfort in everyone
5 What’s your favorite kind of design and why?
Architectural design, of course. When I was at school, I loved exact sciences
6 To you, what makes a “good” design?
When the spirit is invested in the project. I dislike when professionals work as designers just for money or because it
7 Describe your design style and its main characteristics.
It
8 Tell us about your design process.
We need to split my creative activity into two categories - when we work on a project for a customer under a specified SOW and when we implement our own project for people. I can tell you about the second one. First, you get a cool idea. Then you do all what is needed to make it true
9 Do you think your country and its cultural heritage has an impact on your design process?
Of course.
10 Congratulations! As the winner of the 2022 MUSE Design Awards, what does it mean to you and your company and team to receive this award distinction?
This is the just the beginning of our way that we have successfully started. Our idea is to tell as many people as we can about our country and what cool ideas can be used on the facades of their houses. We are grateful to the jury and the team of MUSE Design Awards for supporting and giving us such an outstanding start for our project.
11 Can you explain a bit about the winning work you entered into the 2022 MUSE Design Awards, and why you chose to enter this project?
The JYTTIA is a large project consisting of three parts. It is an architectural part directly named JYTTIA, an interior design named JYTTIA Inside and a subjective design composed of a series of paintings named JYTTIA Kvitka. The name of the project is the word "life", which is written in Ukrainian, but transliterated in Latin. I have chosen the project name myself, because those tragic moments that Ukraine is experiencing are immersing people
12 What was the biggest challenge with this project?
To show genuine Petrykivka decorative painting in a modern perception of design.
13 How has winning an Award developed your practice/career?
First, we worried a lot when nominated our project for the MUSE Design Awards, because we did not know what the reaction would be. We felt a great responsibility. Now, after receiving such a high award, many people get interested in our project. For us, this event has become a great pulse and an evidence that we don
14 Where do you see the evolution of design industry going over the next 5-10 years?
In my opinion, now a design tends to simplification in everything - in forms, in colors, in composition, but at the same time it lacks something what gives a home comfort. Therefore, I cannot say where the design will come in 5-10 years, but I know exactly that many factors influence this field, including natural ones, that encourage constant changes and solution of more and more global problems in society. Perhaps, in 5 years we will design and develop houses on other planets. Who knows
15 If you were a student entering this industry or an aspiring MUSE Design Awards submitter, what advice would you give them?
Not to be afraid. If there is a feeling that the project is valuable, even if it is small or there is no feeling that this project is in line with others, always remain faithful to your idea and only advance forward.
16 What resources would you recommend to someone who wants to improve their skills in the design industry?
Create, because the idea is the sense and source of a project. I heard a phrase in one film:
17 Tell us something you have never told anyone else.
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18 Who has inspired you in your life and why?
Zaha Hadid, Elon Musk and my husband. Zaha Hadid
19 What is your key to success? Any parting words of wisdom?
When I develop a project I always invest my heart in it and do it as for myself.
Entrant Company
ENGI Interior Design studio
Category
Interior Design - Kitchen
Entrant Company
ENGI Interior Design studio
Category
Architectural Design - Residential