Naoto Fukasawa
Naoto Fukasawa was born in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in1956. He graduated from tama art university product design department for 3D art and design in 1980 . Until 1988, Fukasawa worked as a designer at Seiko-Epson Corp.
In 1989, he left Japan for the United States. In San Francisco he joined a small office that had employed 15 people - two 'Id's, the predecessor to 'IDEO', which now has 450 employees in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Boston, Chicago, London and Munich. After eight years, Fukasawa returned home. In 1996 , he helped create " IDEO " in Japan -- a team of eight designers working primarily for the Japanese market . he stayed with him until December 2002. He was independent and in January 2003 he established "Naoto Fukasawa design in Tokyo.
Fukasawa joined the advisory board of the Japanese company 'MUJI. In December 2003 , a new product brand " ± 0 " was established in collaboration with the toy company , " Takara co. , ltd ' , and the publisher ' diamonds co. , ltd ' , in the area of household appliances and design of products without exception. As chief designer of this new range of products, he now develops his ideas elaborated in workshops last years. plusminuszero' designs and produces household objects, from umbrellas to electronics. The first collection includes about 20 parts of a humidifier , LCD screen , mini record player , torch , carpet , electric coffee maker , telephones , toaster... Naoto Fukasawa is a professor in design at Musashino Art University product department and Tama Art University in Tokyo.
Naoto Fukasawa's designs have won over 50 design awards in Europe and America. Its design includes wall mounted cd player / Muji , and information bar / auKDDI . In his most recent works, there is neon/auKDDI and twelve/Issey Miyake/seiko. Apart from the Japanese projects, there are a number of projects with Italian, German and other European companies.
