Naoto Fukasawa was born in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in 1956. In 1980, he graduated in product design from Tama Art University.
From 1980 to 1988, Fukasawa worked as a designer at Seiko Epson Corp. In 1989, he moved to the USA, where he worked for ID Two, the forerunner of IDEO. In 1996, Fukasawa returned to Japan and set up the IDEO office in Tokyo.
In January 2003, he went independent and founded Naoto Fukasawa Design, while maintaining his ties with IDEO as an IDEO Fellow. In the same year, he founded the brand "±0" (plusminuszero), which launches consumer electronics, household appliances and interior accessories.
His designs have won more than 60 recognised design awards, including the Mainichi Design Award in Japan, the iF Design Award and Japan's Good Design Award. Fukasawa is currently a professor at Musashino Art University and Tama Art University in Tokyo. He is also a member of the advisory board for quality design at MUJI.
You can find more of Naoto Fukasawa's work in the collections of renowned manufacturers such as Driade, Magis, B&B Italia, Danese, Artemide and Boffi.
