Good graphic design is a visual artifact that functions. Beauty that doesn’t function is insufficient graphic design. It should be logical, beautiful, and functional at the same time. Tetsuya Goto

In the course of modernizing and westernizing Japanese culture, we also adopted aesthetic notions. But in the end, platonic ideas do not really correspond well with the Japanese mentality. Japanese people think more in terms of configurations. Kiyonori Muroga

For me, beauty means “purity”, which is simple, clear, and not polluted. I am drawn by it, especially because I am neither pure nor able to be pure. Kwangchul Kim