OUGD603 - Research led brief - Book idea

The decision to create a book was that I felt it was the best suited medium to document my research. I have covered a number of factors and felt they would combine well in a book celebrating Japan's economic miracle. The purpose of the book is to highlight and celebrate Japan's changing culture and effect on the world following the war. It will focus on the stages of the economic miracle and list the innovations from them periods, it'll almost be a monograph of the economic miracle. With the subjects being the innovations which contributed to the growth of Japan. For this idea I was influenced by other monographs from publishers such as Unit Edtions but also book such as Beazley's Designs of the year catalogues which document the very best design of the year. They combine many disciplines of design successfully and give a nice snapshot of each, so I'd say to create something similar to this would be the goal.