Interview: Bel Koo from Dream Design
December 17th, 2008 in Articles, Inspiration by kailoonBel Koo, a freelance web designer based in Perak, Malaysia. She is one of the best young web designer I’ve seen in Malaysia.
Please tell us more about yourself
Hi! You can call be Bel, I came from Ipoh, Malaysia. I like art/design since I was young. Now I love web design. I studied graphic design in Perak Institute of Art. Now I am doing freelance web design. My personal site is Dream Design.
How long have you been in this field and why?
I tried to do freelance web design after graduate. After 2 years, I manage to try something different.
How did you market yourself in the beginning of your design career? How about now?
I like web design all the time, I always try to do something simple. There are many different kind of web site. From the beginning, I know nothing. I have to start from something really simple, step by step. I spend more time to do research on foreign and local web site. try to understand how they did it. I am very proud of myself because finally I manage to do that!
Where do you get your inspiration and how do you keep up to date with what is happening in the industry?
Visits others web sites, see their design. Also take a close look at other art web site, tutorial portals etc. Here are my favorite sites:
- www.thebestdesigns.com
- www.bestwebgallery.com
- www.newwebpick.com
- www.fairspot.com
- www.designmeltdown.com
- www.youthedesigner.com
- www.alvit.de/handbook/
How you see the freelance market in Malaysia?
I’ve learn a lot during doing freelance. The freelance market in Malaysia have its own trend. Company prefer to look for bigger design studio rather than a freelancer. So, we need to have our own design style and try produce something different/unique.
ur images too cool and ur post awesome. u have great knowledge in designer. it post too hellp full for a webdesigner thanx for it sharing bcz i’m also a web designer
Malaysia artist and designer need a lot of change in this field of Art. I still found that Art in Malaysia is very outdated and old fashion. I hardly find one that can stand on international stage. Designer here knows about software but hardly appreciate art. How many artist knows about working on paper before moving to the computer? A good designer and artist will work on paper and art material first, not the computer. I am very disappointed with local Art and design here. Some even hold a degree but very old fashion… try to learn from the West, try to explore new way of approach to Art would be great. Don’t just depend on the computer, computer is dead, but the mind of the designer or artist ought to be alive. Pls don’t allowed the computer to lower down the potential of the mind in creating Art. Create good Art and design.
wassup la kai loon. how’s it hanging man?
Fine here :) I joint youthsays this Monday.
I always admiring Bel Koo’s work. She is talented! Definitely one of the best.
One of the best I saw from Malaysia :)
Cool Designer!
Thank you for all your support! :)
Excellent new twist to the site Kailoon, well done, and thanks for sharing Bel, your work has always been admired by us all…