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Naoto Fukasawa was born on 1956 in Kōfu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese industrial designer. Discover Naoto Fukasawa's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?

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Birthplace Kōfu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
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1956

Naoto Fukasawa (深澤 直人; born 1956) is a Japanese designer, author, and educator, working in the fields of product and furniture design.

He is known for his product design work with the Japanese retail company Muji, as well as collaborations with companies such as Herman Miller, Alessi, B&B Italia, Emeco, Magis, and HAY.

Fukasawa has been described as one of the world's most influential designers.

Fukasawa was born in Kōfu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan in 1956.

1980

He studied product design at Tama Art University graduating in 1980.

1988

After graduating, Fukasawa worked as a product developer at Seiko Epson until 1988, before joining the design firm ID Two, a predecessor to the design consulting firm IDEO in San Francisco, California, for whom he later established a Tokyo office in 1996.

During this time he collaborated with the English industrial designer Sam Hecht.

1999

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).

Naoto Fukasawa's design approach is centered around the relationship between design and behavior, using terms such as "design dissolving in behavior", "center of consciousness", "normality", "outline" and "archetype" to describe his work.

His approach relies on observing how people act and react in their everyday, and finding solutions in these behaviors that link the design to the person.

• * Wall-mounted CD player, 1999

2002

In 2002, Fukasawa became a MUJI advisory board member, and worked on the development of many of their products.

2003

After leaving IDEO, he established his own independent firm Naoto Fukasawa Design in 2003.

In the same year, Fukasawa founded the "±0" (Plus Minus Zero) brand of household electrical appliances and household products, focused on the design of goods that are felt to be "just right".

In recent years, he has several Italian furniture companies including B&B Italia, Driade, Magis, Artemide, Danese, and Boffi, as well several in Germany and Northern Europe.

He is one of the co-directors of 21 21 DESIGN SIGHT, Japan's first design museum.

• * INFOBAR Cellular Phone, 2003

• * A Light with a Dish, 2003

2006

In 2006, Fukasawa curated the exhibition Super Normal together with English furniture designer Jasper Morrison to define "Super Normal", presenting 200 objects that were considered ordinary or to have been anonymously designed.

Items presented in the exhibition ranged from notable objects such as the Bialetti espresso maker to anonymously designed and mass produced objects such as disposable plastic plates.

The term defines objects as being absent of identity, originality, and elements that leave an impression, leading to objects that appear ordinary.

This design concept can be seen reflected in Fukasawa's work with Muji, where products are created with an anti-branding approach of not presenting any traits that characterize the object.

Fukasawa 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.

Naoto Fukasawa has consulted and designed for several companies, ranging from home appliance retailers to furniture manufacturers.

Companies that he has designed for include:

• KDDI Corporation

• * INFOBAR 2 Cellular Phone, 2006

• * neon Cellular Phone, 2006

2007

• * Toaster, 2007

• Muji

2010

• * Wire frame Houseware, 2010

2012

Since 2012, he has been the director of the Japan Folk Crafts Museum.

2014

Since 2014, Fukasawa has taught Integrated Design at Tama Art University as a professor, and previously taught at Musashino Art University.

• * Refrigerator, 2014

2015

• * INFOBAR A03 Smartphone, 2015

• ±0 (Plus Minus Zero)

2018

In his 2018 monograph, Fukasawa describes design as "attributing countenance to an object", in which the design is accompanied by the environment and the context.

Fukasawa coined the term "Without Thought" as a philosophy for how design can be found in people's unconscious behavior.

Without Thought refers to how objects can feel important when seen for the first time, but only have their initial essence realized when being used.

Ever since creating the term, Fukasawa has organized workshops to share his approach to other designers.