"Beyond Design" is the first literary work published by the designer He Jianping. The content is mainly composed of essays and is divided into two volumes: "Pain Cannot Be Anesthetized" and "Black Solitude." In the book "Pain Cannot Be Anesthetized," there is a large amount of personal feelings that defy theoretical logic.
The book "Black Solitude" consists of works that the author has designed over the past thirty years. The most in-depth way to observe others' works is to write down the feelings afterward. In "Black Solitude," He Jianping wrote: "Only human emotions are the catalyst for disciplinary progress, even in the calmest writing of design history. Without the assistance of personal emotions, words are like gears without lubricant, accompanied by harsh noise, making them difficult to read and accept. A person who is easily moved possesses the readability for writing."
The book cover is composed of two different textures of off-white paper. The title and the text inside are typeset using two different fonts, combined with the hot stamping process to create a random mottled texture. Due to manual operation, each book is slightly different, giving it a strong personality that breaks away from the classical but presents different states.
The title of the book is "Beyond Design," and the use of two types of paper and fonts hides the designer's contemplation of boundaries and fusion. In addition, there are faintly printed fixed frames with white spot colors on the inner pages, serving as a constant reminder of the existence of boundaries. However, the text itself wanders between inside and outside the boundaries, much like individuals and their lives.
The layout of the book's content exhibits both the scholarly atmosphere of academic books and a dynamic quality due to the abundance of white space, making reading enjoyable and effortless.
这本书是设计师何见平初次出版的文学作品，内容以随笔为主，分为«疼痛，是无法被麻醉的»和«黑色的孤独»两册。«疼痛，是无法被麻醉的»这本书中。存在了大量这种不存在理论逻辑的、私人的感受。«黑色的孤独»这本书，是作者近三十年来设计的习作本。观察别人的作品最深入的方法，就是写下感受后的文字。«黑色的孤独»中写道：“只有人的情感才是学科进步的催化剂，哪怕最冷静的设计历史书写。没有个人的情感助力，文字就像失去润滑剂的齿轮，伴随刺耳的杂音，变得难以被阅读和接纳。壹个容易被感动的人，才具备了书写的可阅读性。”
书籍封面由两种不同肌理的本白色纸张组成，书名和内文的利用两种字体混排，配合烫印的工艺产生随机的斑驳感，又因为人工操作而造成每本书都略有不同，有壹种脱离古典的强烈个性，却又呈现出不同的状态。
书名为《设计之外》，两种纸两种字体等等都隐藏著设计者对边界与融合的思考，除此之外，内页隐隐印有白色专色的固定框，也在时刻提醒边界的存在，而文本却游走在边界内外，如同每个人与他们的生活壹般。书籍内文的版面既有学术类书籍的书卷气息又因大量的留白而灵动，使阅读变得轻松愉悦。
