HARA DESIGN INSTITUTE

This was Kenya Hara’s first collection of essays, serialized for about five years for the monthly magazine Shosetsu Shincho, starting in 1991. With the series title, Sore wo tsukurinagara [While Creating That] Hara wrote about his distressful experiences in the early days of his career as a designer. He wanted to use the series title for the collection but the editors said it was hard to understand what was being created, so convinced him to change it. He chose the title from one of the pieces in the series and called the collection, Please Steal This Poster.