Finamore Design

Mushashi’s Book of Five Rings is bro­ken down into 5 parts: Earth, Waterm Fire, Wind, Void. In the com­ing Design Samu­rai entries I will take a look at each chap­ter in more depth, but here is a brief overview of what each sec­tion of the Book of Five Rings cov­ers… (more…)

In the world of the Samu­rai, Miay­moto Musashi is one of the uncon­tested lead­ers in thought and dis­ci­pline. As design­ers what can we learn from Mushashi? As in all learn­ing we must start by under­stand­ing the past, not only the phys­i­cal truths of what has hap­pened, but the hows and whys as well. What were the events that lead up to the rev­o­lu­tion­ary changes, and what lim­i­ta­tions did they have that they had to over­come? (more…)