Naoto Fukasawa Quotes

Japan, Industrial Designer
1956

Naoto Fukasawa (深澤直人) is a Japanese industrial designer, author, and educator. Since 2014, he teaches Integrated Design at Tama Art University as a professor. In 2003, he established Naoto Fukasawa Design.

Also known as Author, Educator

The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior.

Naoto Fukasawa
I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling of the real skin.

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- Feeling
- Skin
- Surface

Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.

Naoto Fukasawa
Minimalism is about creating complete harmony and not about making simple.

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- Minimalism
We designers have been working to stimulate people's souls and minds.

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- Minds
- Souls
- Stimulate
Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.

Naoto Fukasawa
People shouldn't really have to think about an object when they are using it. Not having to think about it makes the relationship between a person and an object run more smoothly.

Naoto Fukasawa
When the poet's sentiments are overly visible, the audience may become uncomfortable. Japanese ritual is the opposite. By writing simply and only about what is there, the audience is drawn into the poet's world. Their imagination is stimulated, and a silent connection is established. I believe this is where the most important aspect of the Japanese sense of beauty lies.

Naoto Fukasawa