In 2021, Naoto Fukasawa, a world-famous product designer, wrote an essay about what he felt from living in the home and atelier he led the design, and what he thought about when building it.
※it’s Japanese
- Pages:
- 184
- ISBN:
- 9784582544732
- Release Date:
- May, 2023
- Language:
- Japanese
- Publisher:
- Heibonsha
Author profile
Naoto Fukasawa
He was born in Yamanashi Prefecture in 1956 and graduated from the Product Design department of Tama Art University in 1980.
To date, he has handled numerous designs and consulting for domestic Japanese companies, as well as designs for over 60 representative brands worldwide in countries such as Italy, Germany, the United States, Switzerland, Spain, China, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, France, and Sweden. The scope of his design work is wide and diverse, ranging from electronic precision devices to furniture and interior design.
He has won numerous awards for his work including the 2018 Isamu Noguchi Award, the IDEA Gold Award in the U.S., the iF design award Gold Prize in Germany, and the Good Design Award Gold Prize in Japan. Fukasawa has authored books including “An Outline of Design” (TOTO Shuppan), as well as producing two monographs of his work, first one was published in 2007, “Naoto Fukasawa” (PHAIDON), and the recent book, in 2018, “Naoto Fukasawa EMBODIMENT” (PHAIDON).
He is a professor at Tama Art University and the Director of the Japan Folk Crafts Museum.
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