Designer

Naoto Fukasawa

Naoto Fukasawa, né en 1956 à Kōfu, est diplômé en design de produit de l'université d'art Tama en 1980. Après huit ans chez Seiko Epson, il rejoint ID Two, devenu IDEO, dont il ouvre le bureau de Tokyo en 1996, puis fonde Naoto Fukasawa Design en 2003. Sa notion de « Without Thought » décrit des objets qui se révèlent dans l'usage plutôt qu'au premier regard ; en 2006, il organise avec Jasper Morrison l'exposition Super Normal. Il a dessiné pour Muji, dont le lecteur CD mural, ±0 ou B&B Italia, ainsi que la chaise Hiroshima. Directeur du Japan Folk Crafts Museum depuis 2012 et codirecteur de 21_21 Design Sight, il reçoit le prix Isamu Noguchi en 2018. Pour HAY, il signe la famille de luminaires Pao.

Naoto Fukasawa
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He graduated from Tama University of Fine Arts in 1980. Responsible for the Tokyo branch of the American company IDEO, he founded his own agency, Naoto Fukasawa Design, in 2003.

He has won more than fifty awards, including the American IDEA Gold Award, the German iF Gold Award, the English D&AD Gold Award, the Japanese Mainichi Design Prize and the Oribe Award.

He first taught at Musashino Art University, then returned in 2014 to Tama Fine Arts University as a professor of integrated design. He has signed or co-signed various books such as An Outline of Design (TOTO) or The Ecological Approach to Design (Tokyo Shoseki). He also co-directs 21 21 DESIGN SIGHT, the first design museum in Japan.
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