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

[…] traveling—being “on the road”—inspires me the most. And I mean this literally and figuratively. The unforeseen intrigues me. But also the aspect of traces—traces that one discovers and traces that one leaves. Designing a book is a form of traveling, through thoughts, impressions, and expressions. I love the idea that things I cannot control—things from the margins of my perception—leave traces in my design. Xiao Mage

In many ways, Britain is still struggling to define its post-colonial identity. The difficulties brought about by the recent recession have fuelled an anti-international mentality within certain facets of British society that we vehemently disagree with. A Practice for Everyday Life