My very first art love…
When I was child, I learned to paint from a local painter in my hometown. It was a great pleasure to be in her atelier, with the odor of oil paint and the fire from the stove. One day my mother asked her to make my portrait; I still keep this painting.

Artists who changed the way I see the world…
Karel Martens! He was my teacher during my studies in the Netherlands. I love his work, of course, but his attitude toward working influenced me a lot. He is always enjoyable and energetic when creating something.

My style is…
Like a self-portrait, I can describe myself through the language that I use, but this is not a real image of myself. It’s always a fictional scene. Maybe it’s the viewer’s role to describe it. And I appreciate it.

Favorite color combinations…
Basically, combinations of fundamental colors without any patterns are attractive. Many color compositions are referred to by the mass-produced and ready-made objects.

My interest in the arts began when…
I have to admit that I’d been interested in creating with making and drawing since my childhood. And I started industrial design in my university days when I didn’t have clear idea about “design” but creating something was full of excitement. Then one day I realized my interest in visual language such as color, typography, image and composition…

And my interest in the graphic arts…
I was very excited seeing a tiny home printer turning my graphics into reality, of a non-material idea in a digital file becoming reality in a second. Such an instant creation and development seems quite fantastic compared to the long-term process of product design or architecture. Later on, as I experienced more in graphic design, I realized that graphic language could be the basis of a broader idea of design with more personality and intuition, less affected by market and commercial purpose. Nowadays I have more chances to create my work in an art scene, which I feel is a natural journey from industrial design to graphic design and art. In terms of expressing and presenting ideas, they share the methodology and process of developing.