Designing Design

by Kenya Hara

Kenya Hara, born 1958, is a Japanese graphic designer and professor at the Musashino Art University. He for instance designed the opening and closing ceremony programs for the Nagano Winter Olympic games 1998. In 2001, Hara enrolled as a board member for the Japanese label MUJI and has considerably molded the identity of this successful corporation as communication and design advisor ever since.

Lars Müller Publishers

In Designing Design, Hara presents the reader with both the philosophical and visual implications of “emptiness” as it relates to a range of mediums within design. He carefully curates a selection of case studies that extend beyond traditional notions of design and talks in detail about multi-sensory experiences.