HARA DESIGN INSTITUTE

MUJI, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2020, has published MUJI BOOK 2. As with MUJI BOOK, published in 2010 on the company's 30th anniversary, Hara Design Institute handled editing and design.

Rather than being a product catalog, MUJI BOOK presented new developments and directions from the company's early days until its maturity, covering MUJI's history and reviewing the archives spanning the company's first three decades. It included multifaceted perspectives, such as the background behind product development and communications.

MUJI BOOK 2 is a record of MUJI during the decade that followed. Over the last ten years, as society underwent major changes, MUJI's practice developed through fastidious reviews of materials, processes, and packaging, and branched out into unique areas, including homes, hotels, and mobility. Today, MUJI is becoming actively involved in local communities while maintaining a global perspective. MUJI BOOK 2 depicts a cross section of MUJI, revealing the diversity of these activities.

The book contains contributions from twenty-nine people who have observed MUJI during this period. The new MUJI emerges from their diverse perspectives.

It can be purchased at the following link.
https://www.muji.com/jp/ja/store/cmdty/detail/9784909098337

Contributors:

Lidewij Edelkoort, Terunobu Fujimori, Naoto Fukasawa, Shin-Ichi Fukuoka, Joe Gebbia, Kenya Hara, Noriko Hayashi, Masaaki Kanai, Naomi Kawase, Alex Kerr, Yasuo Kobayashi, Kazuko Koike, Tina Koyama, John Maeda, Akira Minagawa, Masao Morita, Jasper Morrison, Hiroshi Naito, Chiki Ogiue, Sputniko!, Reiko Sudo, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Takashi Sugimoto, Kinya Tagawa, Tsuyoshi Tane, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Mayumi Tsuruoka, Yoshihiko Ueda, Makoto Umebara, Takeshi Yoro