Jui-Ping Lee

Actually I studied Economics for my Bachelor and Master, and never attended any art school or studio...I learn solely by myself and some free online tutorials! The moment when I start and become a designer is when I'm in my high school, summer holiday just before 3rd grade - I enjoyed other people's work so much that I can't get enough of them. Then suddenly a thought occurred to me - why can't I draw myself? And at that time my father gave me my first tablet computer as my birthday gift with a stylus - his intention was that I could use it to take notes to prepare the university-entry exam, but I used it to start painting instead and even rejected to attend the summer school (where schools help student study for the exams). Spoiler - I still got a high grade and admission from the best univerisity in my country, even though it's Economics and not art related decipline!

Kimono and white dresses...Kimonobecause it's simply beautiful and splendid, white dresses because they are elegant and angel-like.

Color. The combination of color that can catch the eyes of the beholders and convey a scene that stirs their imaginations

relieved... because "thank God, I don't need to deal with this piece of waste anymore" lol. usually only after 1 or 2 months that I start and appreciate the work I've done.

Beautiful or not. That's the nature that people seek beauty.

Make beautiful products, and not make junks and force people to praise them simply because the creator says that it's a piece of "art".

As the core value is to seek beautifulness, the design field is never evolving, but resolving. The self-proclaimed "designers" changes from era to era but the core is the same.

Somewhere around 2023, in Japan...not sure when will be the next exhibition though, because I can't disclose those I signed NDA under.

Other people's works. I muse about if I tweak some elements in there, combine some other items in there, add my own thoughts in there...you name it.

I don't know my design style and how to describe it. I'm simply seeking the most elegant and fascinating way to combine elements I know, and whether it becomes a typical "style" or not belongs to the beholders, and a thousand beholders have a thousand interpretations.

I live in Taipei. I'll say it matters not much as traveling is easy and the internet brings the whole world in front of you in seconds...the key, therefore, is the cost of living that it's easy enough to live and a good social security system.

Just don't mess with them, thinking that you need to "participate" in the design by giving suggestions/orders simply because you want to feel you are participated. If you're so good at design, do it yourself!

So quite straightforward - collect references, make drafts, color it, make some final touches and that's it!

My computer, my tablet, my Magnepan speakers and my Stax earspeakers, plus a gaming console.

I'll say wake up, have breakfast, watch some news, browse the internet and check new works from artists I follow, start to work, until night, take a shower and go to bed. Nothing fancy.

Just try and persue things you think are beautiful. Don't design for design's sake.

Not much...every life has its own positives and negatives unique to its owner.

Eat meals when it's meal time, go to bed when it's bed time, nothing complex!

Make profits...it immensely helps you keep motivated especially when you are not wealthy enough to live a life without selling anything (whether your work, your time or your expertise).

Beautiful paintings...because, let's face it, who doesn't like beautiful paintings?

Nothing yet...or there are items I signed NDA for so I can't talk about them too lol

I started around 10 years ago...and simply paint. nothing fancy nor dramatic. You just draw works one after another trying to make better and better works.

It was at my highschool days that I see other's works and thnk them so beautiful and can't get enough of them...then it suddenly occurs to be that why can't I draw those myself? So I don't need to wait them to make new works, and that becomes the start of my artists road.

The holy grail is beautiful. any technique or style that can make the work beautiful is equally instrumental and important.

Usually pain...artists know this. You only feel pain during creation just like you only feel pain when laboring.

Nothing particular I'kk say...it also means that everyone and anyone can be a designer. There's no prerequirement or "background" you need to become one.

Try and make better works...that's the one and only growth path and future plans.

Don't create for the sake of creation. Create because you feel the urge to present or to persue beauty.

Please stop creating junks and call them arts and force people to praise them.

Nothing fancy...I wake up in the morning, have breakfast, watch some news and browse the internet, start to work and eat meals at lunch and diner, and have showers and go to bed at bed time.

There's no trend ever matter to an artists, unless they are profit makers instead. Why should trend ever matter if your core value is to create beautiful works?

I know a good work if I see beauty. That's also the only and simpliest way of defining a good work.

If i find nothing I can do more to improve it...it could be that I see points of improvements after 1 or 2 months because I become more polished, but as long as at the time I create the work I can't improve it anymore, that's the cutting point.

It changes from time to time because artists changes from time to time...so it's not quite a easy question to answer to.

I make beautiful arts and bring beauty to this world full of hideousness. That's the key.

So I'm actually not coming from a design/art background - I have both my Bachelor and Master degree in Economics, and focusing on Game Theory/Contract Theory (the field where we study how to set up a set of rules so that people under those rules will act exactly what we want them to act). I also didn't join any schools, studios or ateliers to have any trainings. I studied my own, and follow my instinct about how to make artworks so they are both beautiful to behold and meaningful to ponder.

I'll say that "designing" is intrinsic. When you start and think that certain combination looks most interesting/mesmerising and try to explore it, you are a designer and are designing. It's not like "I want to 'design'" and then you do design. if it is the case, then it is not designing but barely a mimicry in my humble view.

Similar to the question above, a "designer" is not what you want to become, but a description by others when you just do whatever you think you want to do to bring the most beautiful, ingenious work to this world, and suddenly people call you a designer because there's no other word that can describe you more accurately.

So I barely recognise myself doing "designing" consiously. I just explore the combination of elements in my artwork to find the perfect harmonic point where each elements are in concord with each other, both visually and culturally so the beholder will have the instant impression of a beautiful artwork at first sight, and then appreciate the cultural/intellectual meaning when furthur diving in.

Follow your instinct. Make things that mesmerise yourself first, because you are the first ever beholder of every single work that you make. If you can't even feel the beauty of your design/work yourself, how can you ever expect people to appreciate it?

I'll say the term "good" or "great" is not a permenant thing, nor a ubiquitous standard. People used to think works of van Gogh garbage. maybe in the future people will think again his work garbage. There's no need to distinguish a "good" or "great" designer - if we must, I'll say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder - if it fits your taste, then for you it is a great designer. For other people, if they think highest of certain designers, then to them those are their "great" designers.

Similar to above, there's no such thing as an ubiquitously "great" design. To myself, when I'm composing mywork, the one that I think makes the most harmonic combination is the good one. Other people may think otherwise though, but it is their right to like them or not.

Now we are talking about "everyone" - it becomes interesting as it comes into the realm of Economics. Or even a bit evolutionistic that the one that fits the environment the most survives, and thus is crowned as a "good" design (in terms of survivability because all other designs that didn't survive are dead and no one remembers them so no one will be able to call them good). Like human beings - why human beings are the most excellent design of an intellegent creature? Because human survived.

I'll say I always design for myself. Like the previous question, my clients come and go, but I am always the first beholder of any works/designs I make so I must satisfy myself first.

Kimono...I always want to draw the perfect Kimono and I drew a lot, but not yet any of them had reached the most perfect point I'm seeking for.

Satisfy yourself first! Tons of people do arts without even appreciate the work themselves, but wishing others to. That is extremely sad.

Tons of them so I won't list them all out hehe...but they all have one thing in common, that is that I think them beautiful works.

This is a very interesting question...because even for myself, I'm not a robot so have still certain level of capriciousness with me, which means that sometimes I think this work of mine is the greatest, sometime other works, sometimes all of them, or sometimes non of them. One thing I am certain though is that at the moment when I'm making my artwork, every piece at that time is the greatest one to me (or I will revise it to be the greatest I felt at that time)

Again, satisfy yourself first! make sure that at least at the moment when you are creating, the piece of work had reached the highest point possible for you at that time.

Aha I'll say it is impossible not to become a designer, because even if you are not called one by anyone when you are alive, someone after your life in the infinite future will.

A combination of elements. at least that is the definition for me.

Myself! You will find that the greatest obstacle in your life is always yourself...like for example lots of people say that you need to have a rich parents to support you to become a great artist. But was van Gogh born in a ricj family? Was da Vinci a Bourgeoisie? No...the only artist that had gained plenty wealth when still alive is probably only Picasso...