Abstract brushwork photograph from the top of the Kenya Hara poster

Archive · Poster design · 2024

Kenya Hara

A lecture poster on emptiness as a visual container.

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Project type
Typography &
visual identity
Key theme
Emptiness, tactile grain, monochromatic
Year
2024
Tools
Adobe Illustrator

02 Context

Emptiness as a visual container.

Centered on Kenya Hara’s theory of “emptiness as a visual container,” this project explores how white space and texture function as active design elements. The result mirrors the understated elegance, quiet restraint, and sensory resonance characteristic of Hara’s work for Muji.

03 The poster

Quiet restraint, read top to bottom.

Kenya Hara lecture poster: brushwork photograph and biography at top, large Kenya Hara title, event details and vertical kanji 原研哉
Design Lecture Series poster. Tap to zoom.
Detail: brushwork photograph with biography text
01

Brushwork and biography

The top third integrates an abstract, architectural brushwork photograph overlaid with brief biographical text.

Detail: the Kenya Hara title
02

A bold header

The lower grid balances a bold “Kenya Hara” header against clean event metadata.

Detail: tagline, event details and vertical kanji
03

Vertical kanji

Calligraphic kanji (原 研哉) run vertically beside the event details, leaving generous white space around them.