Naoto Fukasawa

Naoto Fukasawa (深澤 直人) is a Japanese industrial designer, author, and educator.[1] Since 2014, he teaches Integrated Design at Tama Art University as a professor.[2] In 2003, he established Naoto Fukasawa Design.[3]

Naoto Fukasawa
Naoto Fukasawa in the cover of Icon Design, june 2018

Biography

He was born in Kōfu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan in 1956. He graduated in 1980 from Tama Art University with a degree in product design.[2][4]

Fukasawa worked at IDEO in San Francisco, California and later helped establish the IDEO Tokyo office.[5] He established Naoto Fukasawa Design in 2003.[3] Since 2002, Fukasawa has been a MUJI advisory board member and worked on the development of many of their products. Representative works of Fukasawa include 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.

As of 2012, he is one of the co-directors of 21 21 DESIGN SIGHT, Japan's first design museum.[6][7][8]

Fukasawa previously taught at Musashino Art University. Since 2014, he teaches Integrated Design at Tama Art University as a professor.[2]

Many of his works are included in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) including, MUJI's Wall-mounted Compact Disc Player (1999), Neon Cellular Phone by KDDI Corporation (2005), and Infobar Cellular Phone by KDDI Corporation (2003).[9]

He has been described by Bloomberg Businessweek as one of the world's most influential designers.[10]

Select awards

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.

Bibliography
  • Fukasawa, Naoto (2018). Naoto Fukasawa: Embodiment. Phaidon Press. ISBN 9780714876078.
  • Fukasawa, Naoto (2014). Naoto Fukasawa. Phaidon Press. ISBN 0714866032.
  • Fukasawa, Naoto (2005). An Outline of Design. Japan: TOTO Shuppan.
  • Fukasawa, Naoto; Goto, Takeshi; Sasak, Masato (2004). The Ecological Approach to Design. Japan: Tokyo Shosek.
  • neon (Phone)
  • INFOBAR (Phone)
  • INFOBAR 2 (Phone)
  • IS01 (Smartbook)
  • INFOBAR C01 (Phone)

References
  1. "naoto fukasawa interview". designboom. 2004-04-18. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  2. "Naoto Fukasawa, Lighting Designer Profile". www.lightology.com. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  3. "Best Practice, Naoto Fukasawa, Product Design". Red Dot. Archived from the original on 2008-02-08. Retrieved 2019-01-24.
  4. "Antiques of the Future, Naoto Fukasawa". mydesignlife.com. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  5. "DESIGN IN MIND: Naoto Fukasawa". Arkitektura Assembly. 2015-10-08. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  6. "Art Space Tokyo". 21_21 Design Sight: Tokyo Art Maps. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
  7. Ashcraft, Brian (2007-05-01). "Without Thought". Metropolis. Archived from the original on 2007-10-05. Retrieved 2019-01-24.
  8. Prescott, Judith (2009-01-13). "Japanese design comes of age". RFI. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  9. "Naoto Fukasawa | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  10. "World's Most Influential Designers". Bloomberg.com. Archived from the original on 3 September 2012. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  11. "Naoto Fukasawa Not Just Winning Awards--Now He's Designing Them". Core77. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  12. "Naoto Fukasawa". www.awmagazin.de (in German). 2011-04-05. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  13. "What Are the G-Mark and Good Design Award?". Core77. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  14. "Industrial Designer Naoto Fukasawa on His Creative Process". Metropolis. 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
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