LISA LAI
 
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Lisa Lai is an industrial designer and artist specialized in product, sustainability, and identity currently based in Vancouver, BC

I am a multidisciplinary designer with 8+ years of experience in the eco-fashion industry with a focus on accessories and fully fashioned knit apparel. My belief is that designers have a responsibility to create work that takes note of its worldly context, thus design should be both a mixture of timeliness and timelessness. This means it is both relevant to our current time, beautiful, sensorial yet sustainable in material and form.

The two values that I have in design and art are creativity + empathy. This is embedded through themes of heirlooms and heritage portrayed in contemporary styles throughout my work…

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Creative Process

 
 

EMPATHIZE

Understanding customer, client, research

 

DEFINE

Establishing the why and what

 

IDEATE

Concept, mood, sketching, ideating

 

PROTOTYPE

Lo-fi prototypes, refined prototypes to prove concept

 

TEST

Test with users & commercialize

 

Just like the scientific method where you go through specific steps, I go through a very thorough design process , focusing a lot on concept and research before diving into the mood, sketches, ideation, prototypes, and final design.

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