(Kiyoshi Awazu’s Notebook of Design Thinking) The Outlet Mall Don’t deny it

Don’t deny it

and the abstract compositions become a veritable aquatic theatre

It creates a pleasant informality

in tribute to one of the important type designers of his era

Printed in an edition of just eighty copies

(Kiyoshi Awazu’s Notebook of Design Thinking) The Outlet Mall Don’t deny itInscribed by Kiyoshi Awazuto to Toshi Katayama at Harvards Carpenter Center in January of 1976, this one contains sixty one essays on design. While designers like Paul Rand were perfecting a certain kind of modern clarity, Awazu was using this Notebook to argue for gaps, fissures, and openingsintentional breaks in the regulated, flattened urban experience. Or, at least thats what AI is telling us. The whole book is in Japanese and we cant easily read