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)
Function triumphs over form in the effortless and unassuming designs of Naoto Fukasawa. For the last 25 years the Japanese designer’s utilitarian ethos has prioritised intuitive use and such seamless integration into daily routine as to feel virtually invisible. In the softly undulating curves of his Papilo armchairs for B&B Italia, or the playfulness of a pull string for his MUJI wall-mounted CD player, Fukusawa distills everyday domestic objects to their most essential purpose and instinctive operation.
In the case of the latter, they have become certified design classics of the new millennium. In , Fukasawa’s CD player was added to MoMA’s permanent collection along with his mobile phones created for Japanese telecom company KDDI, and the gleaming white donut humidifier made for ±0, the electrical design company he founded alongside his eponymous studio in
Naoto Fukasawa’s on ‘Things in Themselves’
(Image credit: Courtesy of the artist)
All feature in 'Naoto Fukasawa: Things in Themselves', a major exhibition of the 68 year-old's career at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and his first in the US, where he was recently hono
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