Design Japan: 50 Creative Years with the Good Design Awards [Paperback]

JIDPO (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1933330481 | ISBN-13: 978-1933330488 | Publication Date: September 1, 2007

For fifty years, the Good Design Award has been Japan's most coveted achievement for excellence and innovation in industrial design. After introducing the design philosophies, histories, and cutting-edge products of twenty leading Japanese companies-including Sony, Panasonic, Toyota, Yamaha, Muji, and Shiseido-Design Japan explores how Japanese businesses and the Good Design Award have evolved together to meet changing tastes.

Included are the works of one hundred past Good Design Award winners and essays by leading designers and architects like Naoto Fukazawa and Kengo Kuma. This full-color volume was produced by the Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization (JIDPO) to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Good Design Awards.

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About the Author

Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization (JIDPO) is a non-profit organization established in 1969. Its sphere of activities is not limited to any particular design field, country, or region, and it has conducted a variety of design promotion activities both in Japan and other countries. www.jidpo.or.jp

Product Details

• Paperback: 228 pages
• Publisher: Stone Bridge Press (September 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933330481
• ISBN-13: 978-1933330488
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 10 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,477,550 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A retrospective look at some great design, November 7, 2008

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This review is from: Design Japan: 50 Creative Years with the Good Design Awards (Paperback)

Length:: 0:21 Mins

Design Japan is a collection of product development philosophy among Japanese companies. Its focus is on industrial design. Some of the selected companies include Brother, Epson, Fujitsu, Nikon, Panasonic, SANYO, Sharp, Shiseido, Sony, Toyota, Yamaha and others.

The history of product development in each company is explained, together with their current and future development trends. It's basically talking about how these companies use design to bring across the corporate image they want to portray.

The last section talks about the history of design from 1956 to 2006. The need for design to help break into oversea markets.

This book is filled with photos of beautiful product designs.

Product designers should find this book a nice read.

(More pictures are available on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)