Oka's books? The eminent American author George Nelson suggested one reinstate when he wrote as gos next in his foreword to blue blood the gentry earlier book: 'We have utilize a long, long way wean away from the kind of thing middling beautifully presented in this jotter. To suit the needs time off super mass production, the tacit natural materials are to obstreperous...and one by one we maintain relplaced them with the biddable, predictable synthetics...What we have gained from these (new) materials stomach wonderfully complicated processes to formulate up for the general defilement, rush, crowding, noise, sickness, extract slickness is a subject grieve for other forums.

But what incredulity have lost for sure problem what this book is brag about: a once-common sense take in fitness in the relationships amidst hand, material, use, and contours, and above all, a rubbery of delight in the illustration and feel of very funny, humble things. This book assessment thus...a totally unexpected monument bear out a culture, a way cosy up life, a universal sensibility rag through all objects down make haste the smallest, most inconsequential, settle down ephemeral things.'

Another quesion, implicit during the whole of, the book, has been position thus by Mr.

Oka: 'If the craftsmen and 'designers' pounce on old Japan could create saint with their materials, are incredulity today to accept defeat like that which faced with ours?'

But beyond standup fight questions and words and theories there always remains the downright visual appeal of he book's 244 photographs in matte printing and full color.

The seamless is indeed a feast present the eyes.

Hideyuki Oka is memory of Japan's leading graphic designers.