中文简介：

这不是一本关于颜色的书。相反，作者试图探索“白色”的本质，他认为白色与日本美学的起源密切相关——象征着简单和微妙。讨论的核心概念是空虚和绝对的空虚。原研哉（Kenya Hara）也将自己设计师的工作视为一种纯粹的沟通方式。良好的沟通有一个特点，就是能够倾听对方的意见，而不是将自己的意见强加给对方。原研哉把这种沟通方式比作一个“空容器”。在视觉交流中，同样有一些信号，其意义是有限的，也有一些信号或符号，如日本国旗上的十字架或红圈，它们就像一个“空容器”——允许各种意义，不限制想象。促使他将白色与空的状态紧密联系起来的不仅是因为日本的“白”字是“空”字的词根。本书还提供了对原研哉哲学的个人见解。

英文简介：

White is not a book about colour. It is rather the author's attempt to explore the essence of 'white', which he sees as being closely related to the origin of Japanese aesthetics - symbolizing simplicity and subtlety. The central concepts discussed are emptiness and the absolute void. Kenya Hara also sees his work as a designer as a pure form of communication. Good communication has the distinction of being able to listen to each other, rather than to press one's opinion onto the opponent. Kenya hara compares this form of communication with an 'empty container'. In visual communication, there are equally signals whose signification is limited, as well as signals or symbols such as the cross or the red circle on the Japanese flag, which - like an 'empty container' - permit every signification and do not limit imagination. It is not only the fact that the Japanese character for white forms a radical of the character for emptiness that has prompted him to closely associate the colour white with the state of emptiness. This book offers a personal insight into the philosophy of the successful designer and author of Designing Design.