Naoto Fukasawa

Naoto Fukasawa (深澤 直人^?) is a Japanese industrial designer, born in Yamanashi Prefecture in 1956. He graduated from Tama Art University in 1980. After having acted as the head of the American company IDEO's Tokyo office, he established Naoto Fukasawa Design in 2003. Representative works include MUJI'S CD player (part of the permanent collection, MoMA New York ), the mobile phones "Infobar" and "neon" and the ±0 brand of household electrical appliances and sundries. In recent years, he has released a host of new works with Italian companies B&B Italia, Driade, Magis, Artemide, Danese and Boffi, as well as in Germany and Northern Europe, and they have garnered a great deal of attention. In the past, he has won over fifty awards, including the American IDEA Gold Award, the German if Gold Award, the British D&AD Gold Award, the Mainichi Design Award and the 5th Oribe Award.

Fukasawa is a professor at Musashino Art University and a visiting lecturer at Tama Art University. He has authored such books as An Outline of Design (TOTO) and co-authored others such as The Ecological Approach to Design (Tokyo Shoseki).

He is regarded as one of the world's most influential designers.^[1]

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References

1. ^ Businessweek.com. World's Most Influential Designers

External links

• Naoto Fukasawa Furniture Designs
• Naoto Fukasawa - Interview
• A profile of Fukasawa in the May, 2007, issue of Metropolis magazine.
• Radio France International feature on Japanese design in the 21st century

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