Kenya Hara, Designing Design

"All the objects that shape our living environment, house floor, bathtub, toothbrush, are comprised of basic elements like color, form and texture. The foundation of modernism is the concept that their shaping should be entrusted to the rational, lucid conciousness, whose aim is to organize those elements. And this design thinking is, in a broad sense, construed to the pursuit of universal balance and harmony of the human mind through rational, integrative manufacture; design refers to the will to interpret the meaning of human life and existence through the process of making things."