Product Description: 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...read more

The founder of the Japanese craft movement shares his ideas on the aesthetic value and importance of Oriental folk art

Product Description: The follow-up to one of the most popular Pictura collections, this new sampling of rare and authentic sources features approximately 200 color and black-and-white images: richly decorated backgrounds, mythological figures, serpentine dragons, fearsome samurai, prancing peacocks, objets d'art, and other traditional motifs...read more

Product Description: The complete work of Tokujin Yoshioka, one of the most innovative designers working today. Based in Tokyo, Tokujin Yoshioka has built a career using unconventional materials to create objects and spaces. Often employing paper and glass, as well as unusual elements, such as plastic drinking straws, his studio’s work has achieved a cult following among design enthusiasts...read more

Product Description: This essential reference provides insight into the world of commercial design; it is valued as the most authoritative annual in the world, suitable for the planning of shops, cities and events, consisting of works which capture movement and trend sensitively...read more

Three hundred full-color and black-and-white photographs document every aspect of Japanese design, capturing the traditions and creative innovations of Japanese clothing and fashion, architecture, interior decorating, food and drink, products, technology, transport, advertising, graphics, and communications. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A rustic earthiness that is the ultimate in elegant simplicity (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text-workbook gives students a firm foundation in medical terminology meanings and pronunciations. It provides a concise presentation of terms reinforced by practice exercises. It can be used in a short course or a review course on medical terminology or as a self-paced text...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Introduces Japanese design of color, shapes, and patterns for culinary articles

Shows how Japanese tools, food, furniture, clothing, ornaments, tableware, electronic equipment, toys, and landscapes incorporate the four seasons in their designs