Miltz

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Miltz

About Miltz

I am a graphic designer, illustrator and artist in Japan. My career as a designer is ten years. Designed mainly on client work. The main categories are corporate identity, web design, logo design Application design, planning, event management. He was also active as a lecturer at a Japanese vocational school. I took charge of a graphic design student for 2 years. Lecture in charge · Concept work · Basic basic lesson · General lesson Starting art production from 2015. I like a unique motif that combines kanji and graffiti art, and I am currently working on a number of works.

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Interview with Miltz

Could you please tell us more about your art and design background? What made you become an artist/designer? Have you always wanted to be a designer?
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.
Can you tell us more about your company / design studio?
I am active in freelance, mainly making money with client work and living.In the client work, I designed it with policy not to give out self.However, from a certain time, I began to feel doubts about its activities.I think that it is worth making the work I want and that it will be used later by the client.Therefore, recently after the client work is over, as a personal work it is producing works that follow his own sensibility not to take anyone's opinion.
What is "design" for you?
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.
What kinds of works do you like designing most?
I like traditional Japanese culture and new sensibilities of foreign countries.
What is your most favorite design, could you please tell more about it?
-Japanese sake, Masamune's kanji logo-Numerous "Hihakutai (splashed brushstrokes)" of Kukai.-It is slightly different from typography, calligraphy of VINCENT ABADIE HAFEZ and RETNA
What is your favorite material / platform / technology?
Sophisticated brush strokeStreet GraffitiI prefer something that not loses value over time than the latest technology.
Which aspects of a design do you focus more during designing?
In the case of orders received, the client's request has been achieved.What is not a convenient interpretation of my own.In the case of my project, whether it is a work that anyone except me can make.
What kind of emotions do you feel when you design?
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.
What kind of emotions do you feel when your designs are realized?
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 makes a design successful?
Listen carefully to people's story.Do more inputs and do more verification.suffer from a design.Brainwashing myself, make I think it was a success.
When judging a design as good or bad, which aspects do you consider first?
Whether the client is satisfied or not.And whether they feel like ordering again to me.
From your point of view, what are the responsibilities of a designer for society and environment?
Design is also to make concepts.I think that if people who can move society gains knowledge of design, the world will become better.Our designers should make the design more permeable to such people to gain design knowledge.
How do you think the "design field" is evolving? What is the future of design?
I sometimes think that the design is degenerating.Advances in the Internet and technology averaged the design.The bad design was reduced, and the distinctive personality was also reduced.If such a situation can be said to be evolution it may be so.I began to feel attracted to things that are not designed.
When was your last exhibition and where was it? And when do you want to hold your next exhibition?
I have recently started making personal art, so I never held an exhibition.If the work increases to some extent, I am planning to open a small exhibition at a Japanese temple or shrine.
Where does the design inspiration for your works come from? How do you feed your creativity? What are your sources of inspirations?
I have a doubt about a calligraphy exhibition that is common in Japan.Those characters are difficult kanji, are classically destroyed, most people can not read.However, we can imagine various abstract meanings in line shape and momentum.The characters and meanings that do not connect, and the imagination of those who read it feel the charm as if people with different languages tried to communicate.
How would you describe your design style? What made you explore more this style and what are the main characteristics of your style? What's your approach to design?
It combines Japanese traditional fonts and calligraphy with other countries' cultures like street art.but, I do not want to inherit Japanese culture.I want to make a modern and classic original one.
Where do you live? Do you feel the cultural heritage of your country affects your designs? What are the pros and cons during designing as a result of living in your country?
I live in Tokyo.Of course, the cultural heritage has a great influence, but that is not the only one. It is influenced by all the gray towns and neon streets that have lost their facial expressions since ancient times, our country that grows old and grows old.
What are your suggestions to companies for working with a designer? How can companies select a good designer?
Instead of using an advertising agency, you should decide your designers who are responsible for their products.Despite its important matters, Japan has too much to order from an advertising agency.It is because we want to impose decision responsibility for designing our products to other companies.Although initially involves risks, you should build relationships that are equal to those of designers.
Can you talk a little about your design process?
Stay at the head of the image at the time of orientation.Do not move hands based on that idea, think.Write out the image in the sketch.If necessary, image concepts and stories.Make use of software.Create a concept story document.suggest.Repeat the correction repeatedly.
What are 5 of your favorite design items at home?
A white glove used by a taxi driver.I use the pen tablet for a long time.In order to reduce the friction between the board and the hand,I am cutting and using the thumb, index finger and middle finger of white gloves.Always buy 50 pieces or more at once.When the courier visits home, they worry if I injured hands.
Can you describe a day in your life?
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.
Could you please share some pearls of wisdom for young designers? What are your suggestions to young, up and coming designers?
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.
From your perspective, what would you say are some positives and negatives of being a designer?
You can objectively look at things from various perspectives.However, it becomes difficult to subjectivity.Honest impression is gone.
What is your "golden rule" in design?
I keep fooling myself.Make an excuse for failure and change to affirmation among themselves.
What skills are most important for a designer?
Expression power with good sense.Communication skills to draw out, understand and persuade others' words.
Designing can sometimes be a really time consuming task, how do you manage your time?
I will not receive orders for work that does not end within the time.Also, since the job of the advertising agency tends to be overworked, we will not receive orders as much as possible.
What type of design work do you enjoy the most and why?
Works that used typography dynamically make me feel happy.Also, work that thinks from the root of the concept is exciting.
What are your future plans? What is next for you?
I do not make modifications many times by making ideas by devising ideas what clients want,I will make what I want to make.We will realize the form that these works are used for corporate advertisement and goods within 5 to 10 years.In addition, he creates analogue works that can not be copied and opens a solo exhibition at a traditional Japanese shrine / temple.After solo exhibition, we hold an art auction.
How can people contact you?
Please contact me from my behance, or portfolio site.https://www.behance.net/miltzhttps://miltz.myportfolio.com/

Designer of the Day Interview with Miltz

Could you please tell us about your experience as a designer, artist, architect or creator?
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?
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?
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?
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?
-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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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
Would you tell us a bit about your lifestyle and culture?
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?
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?
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?
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.

Extended Interview with Miltz

Could you please tell us about your experience as a designer, artist, architect or creator?
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?
To one of the fun things in design work,There are orders from clients outside my knowledge and experience. That will lead to the spread of knowledge. Also, I like to trick people in a nice sense. At a vocational school, I received an advertisement seminar and refined my skills to move people's minds with visuals and copies. Since then, I read several brain science books to move the emotions of many unspecified people. It is a pleasant move to move people's movements with your own creations. And there are almighty skills such as design · illustration · photo technique · movie production · planning. I think that those skills are suitable for the occupation of the designer.
What are your priorities, technique and style when designing?
I hoped to be an architect at high school. However, I did not go on that path. After graduating from high school, I planned to enter the vocational school and become an illustrator. However, I thought that learning graphic design rather than learning illustrations and using that knowledge to illustration is more efficient. Later on I met advertising production, I became a graphic designer, not an illustrator, got a job at a production company.
Which emotions do you feel when designing?
In client work, companies and service logos are often created and deployed to Web and print tools. I am good at graphic design with typography as the main axis.
What particular aspects of your background shaped you as a designer?
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.
What is your growth path? What are your future plans? What is your dream design project?
A good designer thinks of a person who can shape the visual that fits the image. A wonderful designer can think about something other than design. For example, teammates, clients, families of clients, their families, their commercial effectiveness, their own stance and branding, etc. A wonderful designer for me is not to believe in the power of design. I do not believe the power of design in the same way.
What are your advices to designers who are at the beginning of their career?
It is the same as the above contents, A wonderful design is superior to other aspects. It is thought until the behavior after seeing the design and the impression of the memory of the time not touched.
You are truly successful as a designer, what do you suggest to fellow designers, artists and architects?
Good design is one that does not require design. Or what is designed to do so. You should invest in essence before investing in design.
What is your day to day look like?
I want to do research on lines with originality. It is typography and a picture. People who made stripes, borders, polka dots are very respectable. I also want to create such a form of concept.
How do you keep up with latest design trends? To what extent do design trends matter?
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.
How do you decide if your design is ready?
-Japanese sake, Masamune's kanji logo -Numerous "Hihakutai (splashed brushstrokes)" of Kukai. -It is slightly different from typography, calligraphy of VINCENT ABADIE HAFEZ and RETNA
What is your biggest design work?
Same as above. They have their own lines. I think it is a stronger communication tool than any self-introduction.
Who is your favourite designer?
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
Would you tell us a bit about your lifestyle and culture?
I touch many things other than design. In particular, I recommend you to read books of philosophy, sociology, brain science a little.
Would you tell us more about your work culture and business philosophy?
I am an art teacher, an illustrator, a cartoonist, a freetater, a salesman.
What are your philanthropic contributions to society as a designer, artist and architect?
What is design? 1 Thinking the root of things 2 Optimizing 3 Make up and choose clothes 4 Try making rules I think that this is one of them.
What positive experiences you had when you attend the A’ Design Award?
My wife and my family. Or an old client. Team mate of the previous production.

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