设计到底是什么？作为一名从业二十余年并且具有世界影响的设计师，原研哉对自己提出了这样一个问题。为了给出自己的答案，他走了那么长的路，做了那么多的探索。“RE-DESIGN——二十一世纪的日常用品再设计”展真是一个有趣的展览，但又不仅仅是有趣，它分明是为我们揭示了“日常生活”所具有的无限可能性。若我们能以满怀新鲜的眼神去观照日常，“设计”的意义定会超越技术的层面，为我们的生活观和人生观注入力量。

Since its publication fifty years ago, this work has established itself as a classic. It casts the visual process in psychological terms and describes the creative way one's eye organizes visual material according to specific psychological premises. In 1974 this book was revised and expanded, and since then it has continued to burnish Rudolf Arnheim's reputation as a groundbreaking theoretician in the fields of art and psychology.