"Notes on Book Design" Nobuyoshi Kikuchi / Nobuyoshi Kikuchi Price: ¥2,970 Everything about living became the material for book design. A rare book designer, who has worked on over fifteen thousand books, shares his thoughts on books and book design. "Even if you don't have any ideas, if you take it to Kikuchi, he'll somehow make it work," is like... a reflector, "Nobuyoshi Kikuchi." At the time, when he was in his mid-forties to fifties, to put it dramatically, everything he experienced in his daily life became the material for book design. Things he saw in the Ginza Matsuya department store's show window in the morning immediately became material, or he'd be inspired by a print he saw in a gallery. Without particularly being conscious of it, everything he saw would somehow connect to the book designs he was working on. It's because, before he creates, he is a "viewer" above all else, a book designer who makes the unseen world of the novel visible. (From the book "Paper Without a Back: Notes on Book Design") #NobuyoshiKikuchi #NobuyoshiKikuchi #Books #JapaneseLiterature/Essays