00000nam a22000004a 4500 UP-1686042739785126341 Buklod 20241217100942.0 m |o d | ta 240704s2007 sz a r 000 u|eng d 9783037781050 OLC DCFA rda eng jpn TS 171.4 H37 2007 Hara, Kenya author Designing design Kenya Hara . Baden, Switzerland Lars Muller Publishers 2007 467 pages illustrations (chiefly color) 26 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Verbalizing design is another act of design. I realized this while writing this book. To understand something is not to be able to define it or describe it. Instead, taking something that we think we already know and making it unknown thrills us afresh with its reality and deepens our understanding of it. For instance, suppose there's a glass here. You might know about a glass. But what if you need to design one? The moment a glass is proposed as an object to be designed, you start thinking about what kind of glass you want to design, and you lose a little bit of your understanding of "glass." Arrayed in order before you are dozens of glass vessels of gradually varying depths, from "glass" to "dish." What if you are asked to clarify the exact boundary point between one and the other? Faced with the objects, you're at a loss. And again you become a little less sure of your knowledge of a glass. However, this doesn't has been overturned. Indeed it's just the opposite. You've become more keenly conscious of glasses than before, when you understood them by simply unconsciously calling them all by the term "glass." Now you actually understand glasses more realistically. The whole world looks different if you just put your chin in your hand and think. There are an unlimited number of ways of thinking and perceiving. In my understanding, to design is to intentionally apply to ordinary objects, phenomena and communication the essence of these innumerable ways of thinking and perceiving. Even if you lose touch a little with your understanding of design by reading this book, it doesn't mean you know less about design than you did before. It's proof that you've progressed another step deeper into the world of design. -Kenya Hara Industrial design Japan. Design Japan. Touch Japan Design. Commercial products Japan. FO UPD DCFA TS 171.4 H37 2007 Book