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