Naoto Fukasawa

Naoto Fukasawa (Japanese深 泽 直 人, Naoto Fukasawa, born 1956 in Yamanashi Prefecture ) is an internationally known Japanese industrial designer.

Life

Fukasawa studied until its completion in 1980 at the Tama Art University (Tokyo). He then worked for several years as a designer for Seiko Epson and went in 1989 in the United States. After he had built from 1996 to 2002 the design studio of IDEO in Tokyo and directed, and in 2003 founded his own company, " Naoto Fukasawa Design".

Work

Exemplary work for Fukasawa's understanding of design is the work for Muji, a Japanese lifestyle department store chain, for a CD player he designed, among other things, the mobile phones " Infobar " and " neon" - all included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art New York - as well as the ± 0 brand of household appliances and accessories. Fukasawa sits Muji also as creative director before and thus has significant influence over its minimalist clean design philosophy.,

Since founding his own studio provide mainly work for companies like Apple, Artemide, B & B Italia, Boffi, Epson, Danese, Magis and NEC stir.

Naoto Fukasawa has received over 50 international awards, including the American IDEA Gold Award, the German iF Gold Award, the British D & AD Gold Award and the German red dot award

Fukasawa is a professor at Musashino Art College and as a visiting lecturer at Tama Art University, where he studied, worked. He is the author of several books, among others, Design no Rinkaku (デザイン の 輪郭, English At Outline of design, TOTO Shuppan. ) And co-author of Design no Seitaigaku - Atarashii design no Kyokasho (デザイン の 生態学-新しい デザイン の 教科書, dt "Ecology of Design - New Design textbook ", Tōkyō Shoseki ).