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Closing Keynote Speech: Naoto Fukasawa |
Title: Design Dissolving in Behavior
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Sep. 14th 15:30-16:40 |
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Product designer
The President of NAOTO FUKASAWA DESIGN
Musashino art university professor
Tama Art University visiting professor
Visiting lecturer, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies
the University of Tokyo |
Biography
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Naoto Fukasawa was born in Yamanashi Pref. of Japan
in 1956. He graduated from Tama Art University’s product
design department in art and 3D design in 1980. Until 1988, Fukasawa
worked as a designer at Seiko-Epson corp. He designed the development
devices such as the arm television and small printer, liquid crystal
televisions, liquid crystal cinematographs that used microelectronics
technology.
He left Japan for the United States in 1989. He joined a company
to design company “ID TWO” at San Francisco in 1989,
the predecessor IDEO.
Fukasawa has designed numerous products, which are related to
the electronics technology of Silicon Valley, e.g. the design
of the heart left ventricle support system of Baxter Company and
VERTECH ALPIN/SKI watch of AVOCET brand. He joined the project
of design language development and concept design of Apple Computer.
He won 40 design awards in Europe and the United States.
He exhibited “Personal Skies” to the plan exhibition
“Workspheres” according to the invitation of Museum
of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) in 2000. He has become advisory
board member of MUJI since 2001. He established Naoto Fukasawa
Design in independence in 2003. Fukasawa designed cellular phone
INFOBAR. In the same year, he started ±0 direct store at
Tokyo ±0 of household electric appliances and miscellaneous.
Fukasawa exhibited his work from 7 brands, B&B ITALIA, Driade,
Artemide, Danese, Magis, at international furniture show (Milan
Salone Internazionale del Mobile) in 2005. currently, he is both
Musashino art university professor, Tama Art University visiting
professor, and a lecturer of the graduate school of Tokyo University.
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