PLANK designer Naoto Fukasawa was Born in Yamanashi Prefecture in and graduated from Tama Art University&#;s Product Design Department in In the same year, he joined Seiko Epson, where he was responsible for advanced development design. In , he moved to the United States and joined ID Two(now IDEO San Francisco). He honed his craft for seven years, focusing mainly on Silicon Valley industries, and returned to Japan in Fukasawa established and headed up IDEO&#;s Tokyo office, creating a Japanese design consultant base for the company. He went independent in and founded NAOTO FUKASAWA DESIGN.
Currently, Fukasawa designs for a wide range of leading brands worldwide in Italy, Germany, America, Switzerland, Spain, China, Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, France, Portugal, Sweden, and Finland, as well as consulting and designing for local Japanese companies. His designs span a variety of fields, from precision electronic equipment to furniture, interior spaces, and architecture.
Fukasawa is well-recognized for his designs &#; imbued with a quiet power that embodies peoples&#; hopes and expectations &#; and his design philosophies. Conveying them using such terms as &#;design disso
Naoto Fukasawa / Product Designer
Born in Yamanashi Prefecture in Graduated from Tama Art University’s Product Design Department in In the same year, he joined Seiko Epson, where he was responsible for advanced development design. In , he moved to the United States, where he joined ID Two (now IDEO San Francisco). Having honed his craft for seven years, focusing mainly on Silicon Valley industries, and returned to Japan in Fukasawa established and headed up IDEO’s Tokyo office, creating a Japanese design consultant base for the company. He went independent in and founded NAOTO FUKASAWA DESIGN.
Currently, Fukasawa's work extends globally, collaborating with over 70 renowned international brands, as well as providing consulting and design services for Japanese companies. His designs span a variety of fields, including precision electronic equipment, furniture, interior spaces, and architecture.
Fukasawa is well-recognized for his designs - which imbued with a quiet power that embodies peoples’ hopes and expectations - as well as his design philosophies. Conveying them using such terms as “design dissolving in behavior”, “center of consciousness”, “normality”, “outl
Philadelphia Museum of Art will open the exhibition “Naoto Fukasawa Things in Themselves” and will present the first major solo presentation at a U.S. museum of Naoto Fukasawa. This exhibition celebrates the Collab Design Excellence Award and will be open from December 13, , to April 20,
The Philadelphia Museum of Art was founded as part of the Centennial Exposition in , celebrating the th anniversary of the United States’ independence, and officially opened later.
From the outset, it was designed not only as a traditional fine arts museum but also one that emphasized applied arts. It began as a museum that focused on crafts, furniture, architecture, and design. It is one of the first public museums in the U.S., boasting a world-renowned collection of approximately , items.
Furthermore, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Japan share a long-standing connection. In , the museum hosted “Japanese Design: A Survey Since ”, the first exhibition in the U.S. dedicated to post-war Japanese design. The exhibition subsequently toured the Galleria dell'Triennale (Italy), the Düsseldorf City Museum (Germany), the Centre Pompidou (France), and the Suntory Museum Tenpozan (Japan)
Naoto Fukasawa
Naoto Fukasawa is known for his designs devoted to simplicity and sublime beauty, as well as unusual ideas. Fukasawa has designed a wide range of products, from hi-tech to electronic equipment, architecture, and also high-end craftsmanship furniture and object.
He is collaborating with top leading brands worldwide like MUJI, HERMAN MILLER, B&B ITALIA, BOFFI, ERCO, MOLTENI, EMECO, MARUNI, and many others throughout Europe, America, and Asia. Fukasawa is one of the directors of 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT. He also sits on the design advisory board of MUJI and is the art director of MARUNI.
In , he established “Super Normal” with Jasper Morrison. In , he became a member of the judging committee for the LOEWE Craft Prize. He is the vice president at Tama Art University. Since , he is the director of The Nihon Mingei-kan (The Japan Folk Crafts Museum). In he founded the Design Science Foundation.
Fukasawa is the winner of numerous awards given by domestic and international institutions, including the Isamu Noguchi Award. He published a few books, the most recent one in ‘Naoto Fukasawa EMBODIMENT&#; (PHAIDON).
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