For this book, Kitagawa visited Japan’s top designers and corporate managers in the graphical, fashion, and product design fields to discuss their philosophies and exchange stories about their design processes in order to seek out clues to the future of creation. This is not about design based in logic, but about uncovering greater value in design spun from disciplined eyes and hands – about discovering the creative possibilities in intuitive design through dialogue with a number of creators.

This exhibition showcased Issay Kitagawa's own unique world view through his distinctive but at the same time somehow friendly objects, and his print expressions that were the result of his thorough pursuit of the finest nuance and ultimate in taste. He sounded the alarm about the decline in human performance that has been caused by the rationalization and conceptualization of things, and by the increasing dependence on computers in recent years.

Milan Furniture Fair is an annual fair held in Milan, Italy, and is the largest trade fair of its kind in the world. Kitagawa was invited to take part in Global Edit 06, a booth curated by Wallpaper Magazine, and he exhibited the Fukunishiki sake barrel design he created, and the chopstick wrappers he designed for Fukunishiki’s flagship shop and restaurant, Fukukura.