Kenya Hara

This is the layout for a magazine that i created this semester. The main colors that i used are black and white. Generally, the layout looks quite classic and simple. However, personally, i think those characteristics made my work look elegant ^^.
Because this article is about a Japanese designer who is Kenya Hara. Simplicity is his style to design things. White appears nearly in all of his works. Hara considered that white has become the skeleton of his design process.

Have a look at my design, you can feel that i'm trying to bring you into the Japanese world. The font of the title, the way i arranged the text vertically, the little details that i used to decorated my layout such as the bamboo or the bird standing on a branch. All of those elements are actually Japanese.

Recently, i have found out that black and white is the everlasting colors and they are the solution for most design processs. I dont mean that other colors are bad. When i went to the library, between the many many colorfull books, i found a book called "Designing Design" written by Kenya Hara, and i fall in love with it! :)) The cover of this book is white, the background as well as the text are in white, just different levels of white so you can read them all. Inside the books, you can see many works of Kara. Most of them are in white also. However, i did not feel bored to read this book but i got exciting. Between so many talented designers, Kenya Hara has chosen his own and special way to make him different.