Main entry:
Hara, Ken'ya, 1958-
Title & Author:
Designing design / Kenya Hara ; [translation Maggie Kinser Hohle, Yukiko Naito].
Publication:
Baden, Switzerland : Lars Müller Publishers, 2008.
Description:
467 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Notes:
"First published in 2007"--(Colophon)
"First published in 2007"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references.
A dialect in design: discovering Kenya Hara -- The aesthetics of invisibility / John Maeda -- Message received / Jasper Morrison -- Preface / Kenya Hara -- 1. Re-design : Daily products of the 21st century : Making the ordinary unknown ; Art and design ; RE-DESIGN exhibitions ; Shigeru Ban and toilet paper ; Masahiko Sato and entry/exit stamps : Kengo Kuma and the roach trap -- Kaoru Mende and matches ; Kosuke Tsumura and diapers ; Naoto Fukasawa and tea bags ; The RE-DESIGN exhibition travels the world -- The Architects' Macaroni Exhibition : Food design ; Norihide Imagawa: SHE & HE ; Tadasu Ohe: Wave: ripple, loop, surf ; Akio Okurmura: i flutte ; Kaora Kasai: OTTOCO ; Kengo Kuma: semi constructive ; Atelier Zo: MACCHERONI ; Kanji Hayashi: Serie Macchel'occhi ; Mayumi Miyawaki: punching macaroni -- 2. HAPTIC : awakening the senses : Designing the senses ; The HAPTIC exhibition ; Kosuka Tsumura : Kami Tama : Shin Sobue: tadpole coasters ; Jasper Morrison: wall clock ; Toyo Ito: gel doorknob ; Panasonic Design Company: gel remove control ; Naoto Fukasawa: juice skin ; Shuhei Hasado: Geta ; Events on the skin ; Yasuhiro Suzuki: cabbage bowls ; Shunji Yamanaka: floating compass ; Matthew Manche: Mom 'n baby ; Keiko Hirano: paper wastebasket ; Kenya Hara: water pachinko ; Masayo Ave: 800 dots, paperback cover ; Kengo Kuma: cast-off snakeskin paper towel ; Reiko Sudo: gazelles ; Kazunari Hattori: tailed gift cards ; Kenya Hara: humidifier ; Sense-driven: the progress of technology and the deterioration of the senses ; Spreading the world atlas of the senses -- 3. Senseware : Medium that intrigues me : What evokes the senses: a white tense material ; Communicating with materiality -- Architecture of information : The field of sensory perception ; The architecture within the brain -- The program for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Nagano Winter Olympic Games : Designing paper ; Invoking the memory of treading on snow -- Signage system for a clinic : Signage system for the Umeda Hospital ; The communication in keeping white cloth clean ; Katta Civic Polyclinic signage system -- Matsuya Ginza Renewal Project : Palpable media ; The collaboration of tactile design ; Information as an event -- Nagasaki Perfectural Art Museum : Ripple-like information -- Swatch Group: signage system for Nicolas G. Hayek Company : The watch hovering in the air ; A watch in the hand -- Books as information sculpture : Rediscovering books ; Information is a single soft-boiled egg ; Information sculpture ; Not future but present ; Filing ; im product: don't talk about colors ; Optimum ; Paper and design -- 4. White : White as a design concept ; Discovering white ; The implicit color ; Escaping color ; Original forms of information and life -- 5. MUJI :Nothing, yet everything : Visualizing the MUJI concept ; What Ikko Tanaka passed on to me ; MUJI's origin, MUJI's challenge ; Acceptance, not appetite ; World MUJI ; Emptiness ; Placing the logo on the horizon ; Location: in search of the horizon ; House ; What is quality in simplicity? ; The future of design ; Education of desire ; Fertilizing the soil ; MUJI: what happens naturally -- 6. Viewing the world from the tip of Asia : Where all cultures are accepted ; Tradition and universality ; Recreating a mature culture ; Waiting for what nature brings: Gajyoen and Tonga-no-Mori ; Reclaiming Japan's quality in the world's eyes: Obuse-do Corporation ; Unearthing the meaning of nothingness: Mukayu ; Identity breeds attraction -- The expo that might have been : The original idea and "nature's wisdom" ; The practical power of ecology ; Our forest vision ; Technology: closer to nature with each evolution ; Familiar nature and life forms, as characters ; The self-propagating/multiplying/breeding media ; The never-ending project -- The Beijing Summer Olympic Games symbol design competition : The pulse of Asia -- 7. Exformation : A new information format : Making the world unknown ; Putting a full stop to thinking ; Acquiring knowledge is not the goal ; Making an entrance for curiosity ; The process of making things unknown -- Exformation 1. The Shimanto River : The object of the process ; Field research ; The projects: simulations: if rivers were a road ; Footprint landscape ; Picking up ; The Shimanto River cut into a cube ; Six days alone: the document -- Exformation 2. Resort : After clothing, food and shelter ; Relaxation time that makes sense to everyone -- Various resorts : Vinyl/stripes: Turning Tokyo into vinyl and stripes ; Sleeping outside ; Soft-serve ice cream machine ; Loose typography ; Resort switch ; Exformation continues to evolve -- 8. What is design? : Hearing the outcry ; Tow origins ; Decoration and power ; The origin of design ; Integration of design ; Design in the afternoon of the 20th century ; Standardization and mass production ; Style change and identity ; Thought and brand ; The prank of postmodernism ; Computer technology and design ; Radical dash ; Beyond modernism -- About Kenya Hara / Naoto Fukasawa -- Afterword, or Perhaps, a new serve / Kenya Hara.
In English, translated from Japanese.
Dust jacket and publisher's band.
Summary:
Representing a new generation of designers in Japan, Kenya Hara (born 1958) pays tribute to his mentors, using long overlooked Japanese icons and images in much of his work. In Designing Design, he impresses upon the reader the importance of "emptiness" in both the visual and philosophical traditions of Japan, and its application to design, made visible by means of numerous examples from his own work: Hara for instance designed the opening and closing ceremony programs for the Nagano Winter Olympic games 1998. In 2001, he enrolled as a board member for the Japanese label MUJI and has considerably moulded the identity of this successful corporation as communication and design advisor ever since. Kenya Hara, alongside Naoto Fukasawa one of the leading design personalities in Japan, has also called attention to himself with exhibitions such as Re-Design: the Daily products of the 21st Century of 2000. --Publisher's description
ISBN:
9783037781050 (hardcover)
303778105X (hardcover)
Subject:
Hara, Ken'ya, 1958-
Hara, Kenya.
Hara, Kenʼya, 1958-
Industrial design Japan.
Design Japan.
Touch Japan Design.
Commercial products Japan.
Design Japon.
Produits commerciaux Japon.
Commercial products.
Design.
Industrial design.
Japan.
Holdings:
Location: Library main 264819
Call No.: BIB 196270
Status: Available
