Education
He graduated from Tama Art University in 1980.
深澤 直人
He graduated from Tama Art University in 1980.
After having acted as the head of the American company IDEO"s Tokyo office, he established Naoto Fukasawa Design in 2003. Representative works include MUJI"South Civil Defense player (part of the permanent collection, MoMA New York ), the mobile phones "Infobar" and "neon" and the ±0 brand of household electrical appliances and sundries. In recent years, he has released a host of new works with Italian companies B&B Italia, Driade, Magis, Artemide, Danese and Boffi, as well as in Germany and Northern Europe, and they have garnered a great deal of attention.
Fukasawa taught at Musashino Art University and from 2014 he teaches Integrated Design at Tama Art University as a professor
He has authored such books as An Outline of Design (TOTO) and co-authored others such as The Ecological Approach to Design (Tokyo Shoseki). As of 2012, he is one of the co-Directors of 21 21 DESIGN SIGHT, Japan"s first design museum.
He has been described by Bloomberg Businessweek as one of the world"s most influential designers.
