Interview with Miltz

Miltz ("Miltz") interviewed on Thursday, 3 May.

Could you please tell us about your experience as a designer, artist, architect or creator?

Miltz : At first, I wanted to be a profession to make something.However, something was not decided.Illustrator, industrial designer, technician, everything was good.I was looking for a place where I could demonstrate my own creativity.I thought that the profession of making things would be worth living in life.Also, I wanted independence soon.I wanted an environment to judge things at my own risk without being influenced by anyone.After graduating from high school, I entered a vocational school and studied graphic design.I worked for production for four years and became freelance.

How did you become a designer?

Miltz : In Japan, the power of advertising agencies is still strong, and production is often apt to become their good.Waiting for decisions Forever continuing waiting time and corrections coming at midnight are harsh.I verify various ideas, but it is often subjected to shredding without touching the human eye.I thought about quitting labor for agencies and clients I can not love.And it becomes freelance, I will not work with an agent as much as I can. Do not participate in competition projects either.I believe that it is something that should be done by designing with full power, loving clients and products that appoint me directly.

What are your priorities, technique and style when designing?

Miltz : Design priorities1. Is the client's request fulfilled2. Is the unique value that I asked for?3. Are there new challenges?My style is a new typography concept.When using things to convey things, I use one of pictures, pictures and letters, but I'd like to add another concept in it.The dependent tool is the pen tablet.

Which emotions do you feel when designing?

Miltz : It is painful up to 94%, this work is not suitable for me, there should be others who can make it better.Between 95% and 99%, I want to complete early, I feel comfortable, the movement of the body is slower than the thought.It is almost always like that.After completion, I am relieved for a while but I think that it might have been a failure in a week.Because I imagine that when I make the same thing that I have a completed experience I can make a more sophisticated work.Therefore, we can do the next challenge.

What particular aspects of your background shaped you as a designer?

Miltz : -Japanese sake, Masamune's kanji logoThe creator is unknown, but this typography shocked me.Because, despite Japan 's simple kanji, most of it is a form that can not be read by ordinary people.But this sake is known to many people.That is because Kanji characters succeed in branding as marks like Nike logo.I was impressed by the fact that the characters drawn as kanji to be read were recognized not by reading but by watching.-Numerous "Hihakutai (splashed brushstrokes)" of Kukai.Since quite a long time, the matters that I am currently thinking have been studied,Moreover, the shape of the letters is rich in design and is unique.Even though there is a profession of a craftworker who makes things, while there is no concept of a designer,I was intrigued by past men who are studying the shape of letters like this.-It is slightly different from typography, calligraphy of VINCENT ABADIE HAFEZ and RETNAWhen I saw his graph for the first time, I did not care about anything.But whenever I see his graphics several times through a magazineI remembered the feeling of staying in memory.I think that his graphic was unconsciously tagged as a single human work.To speak unconsciously is the best branding and it is difficult at the same time.

What is your growth path? What are your future plans? What is your dream design project?

Miltz : I would like to open a solo exhibition with traditional Japanese shrines and temples when the number of works is about 20 or more.Through such places I'd like to feel my work and the way leading to Japanese gods and Buddha.Typography with people as a canvas.I want to leave a dynamic work with a movement change.Also they are male and female expressions of lines are different, and by intersection like a dance, I imagine a combination of curves and straight lines into a single work.Drawing on a huge glass building.Different overlapping lines are one of the features of the work.I'd like to reproduce it as a more stereoscopic combination with a glass of huge buildings.I also want to create a space where I will be present in overlapping lines.

What are your advices to designers who are at the beginning of their career?

Miltz : Make something that can not be copied.It can be a new design style or an analog work.Someone already makes ordinary works.Continue and update works that can not be copied.It becomes strong originality and becomes your cultural work.

You are truly successful as a designer, what do you suggest to fellow designers, artists and architects?

Miltz : Make a work that you trust that you are cool in the idle time with client work.When it was evaluated, I think that I had a sense of recognition to others by others.If it is not easy to accept, I think that the approach is wrong or that the sense does not match the world.However, making a work changes the possibility from 0 to 1.And by continuing to make it will expand from 1 to 100.No matter how busy the client work is, I believe my sense,I think that making your own work is the way to success.

What is your day to day look like?

Miltz : Wake up with the child, eat breakfast and send to the nursery.Dish washing, washing, cleaning.I go to the office and check email.Produce typography as a preparatory exercise in 30 to 60 minutesThese works are published as "MORNING TYPOGRAPHY" on Twitter and Instagram.https://www.behance.net/gallery/54657179/MORNING-TYPOGRAPHY-WEEK001https://www.behance.net/gallery/56717689/MORNING-TYPOGRAPHY-WEEK002https://www.behance.net/gallery/64072055/MORNING-TYPOGRAPHY-WEEK003-004Work on the design.The material collection is mainly Pinterest and Behance.I am listening to Japanese anime and radio while doing design work.So I will not listen to music so much.I will go if there is a meeting.Coming home.sleep.

How do you keep up with latest design trends? To what extent do design trends matter?

Miltz : We mainly collect information with Pinterest, Behance and Feedly.But the trend of design is the average trend demanded by the public to the last.I'd like to pursue a more niche style that is more unique than that.By knowing the trend of the world you can position how unique your niche is.It is difficult to give your own interpretation of inspiration taken from the design of others.If you take inspiration from other aspects of design, novels and languages, landscapes and soundsWe believe we can pursue more original forms.

How do you know if a product or project is well designed? How do you define good design?

Miltz : What is design?1 Thinking the root of things2 Optimizing3 Make up and choose clothes4 Try making rulesI think that this is one of them.Good design can feel a good rule by just looking at the image.It's also tone and manners, which also means that the user's movements can be easily imagined.

How do you decide if your design is ready?

Miltz : It is a time when there is no sense of incongruity within me.The sense of incompatibility is poor comfort, whether the feelings of wanting to show to people are born, rules of basic design,It is a sense of unity.

What is your biggest design work?

Miltz : I never felt it was the best design.Because when I make the completed work again, I have the consciousness that I can make something with a higher quality than at the beginning.Because it looks like a design like a rusted failed work in a week as if such a feeling.But I can make another creation to remove that feeling.For this reason I may say that the latest work I made is the best.Currently my latest work is "KANJI-LINE: HATOUUNSAN".https://www.behance.net/gallery/64026575/KANJI-LINEHATOUUNSAN

Who is your favourite designer?

Miltz : It is the same as question 5.

Would you tell us a bit about your lifestyle and culture?

Miltz : I like to get information from my ears.Especially designing while listening to radio and personal podcasts.In addition, I have been based in Tokyo Shibuya for a long time. Shibuya is a city with a dirty image where young people gather.I have never thought of living but I like the culture of this city.However, there was a doubt in this town that is going to change beautifully and made a work.https://www.behance.net/gallery/63866621/SHIBUYA-GRAFFITII feel that the design that remains as culture is superior.Culture is thought that as fans increase due to continuity of originality, it will be formed by being conveyed.I think that it will be an interesting world if many designers can leave work that feels their culture.I believe that creating a work of my own without a client is a long-term investment for designers.

Would you tell us more about your work culture and business philosophy?

Miltz : I am working 50% at home and 50% at my office.Most of them are one person.I also like to work on the team, but feel that one small job is better for me.

What are your philanthropic contributions to society as a designer, artist and architect?

Miltz : I liked teaching people and I was in charge of a design lecturer at a vocational school of my alma mater.It is very pleasant when students interpret my advice and make their own designs.Also, I would like to concentrate on the work of the instructor from the time I retired from working as a designer.

What positive experiences you had when you attend the A’ Design Award?

Miltz : In Japan, it seems that the evaluation of overseas, especially in the West, will be a big status.I was evaluating myself as if it is far from the design award,I realized that my surrounding eyes tilted towards here because I was awarded.Because the design can not be scored as a numerical value like sales performance,It is difficult to express the evaluation with reliable indicators.As you can see, it is difficult to figure out how it is seen from around.Among them, the prize in the contest will be one of the few solid reputations in the design.Awards will be confident of their own creative activities and become reasons to continue.It also helps you grasp your design level position.Although it is not pleasant to separate depending on the top and bottom,People who are evaluated are those who gave themselves opportunities to get evaluations.I think the design award is a good opportunity to know other people and know the self.

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