01 May / Origins: The Creative Spark Behind Japan’s Best Product Designs by Shu Hagiwara, photography by Masashi Kuma, translated by Philip Price [in Bloomsbury Review]
A spectacularly rendered coffee-table collection of the history of how some the best designed Japanese products – from furniture to appliances to toys to even the ubiquitous drip-free soy sauce bottle – ever got made. My Prius even gets a two-page nod!
Review: “In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Month: New & Notable Books,” The Bloomsbury Review, May/June 2007
Readers: Adult
Published: 2007