From the celebrated MUJI designer and bestselling author of 100 Whites and Designing Japan, a compact and beautifully designed guide to the art of cleaning. Cleanliness is a core value of societies around the globe. With beautiful photography and short, poetical observations, acclaimed author and designer Kenya Hara explores and illustrates the concept of cleaning in all of its aspects: sweeping, dusting, blowing, beating, washing, wiping, smoothing, raking, grooming, purifying, scrubbing, scraping, erasing, scooping, removing and clearing. From the sorting process a child applies to its toys and the meticulous attention a clockmaker pays to their creations to the impressive feat that is deep-cleaning a ship, each process is treated with the same gentle fascination. The portable book format invites readers to take this publication into the world as they look at these everyday processes with fresh eyes. AUTHOR: Kenya Hara (born 1958) is a Japanese graphic designer, author, curator, professor at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo and art director for MUJI. He has been awarded many prizes, including the Japanese Cultural Design Award. Hara is the author of White, 100 Whites, Designing Design and Designing Japan. SELLING POINTS: . Kenya Hara is an acclaimed graphic designer known for his minimal yet playful style. He is the art director for the Japanese global brand Muji, and the author of many books, including 100 Whites, Designing Design and Architecture for Dogs. . This small-format (41/2 by 61/4) but very chunky 500+ page book celebrates the act of cleaning. Primarily visual-from cleaning very large items (airplanes, sea freighters) to the everyday (windows, dogs, floors, laundry). The book also looks at tools-brooms, dusters and vacuums, with delicate line drawings and the names of each item in eight languages (including English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and Arabic). . Kenya Hara has 150.1K followers on Twitter (@haraken_tokyo). The book is produced with the support of Muji. 374 illustrations
