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He also sits on the design advisory board of MUJI and is the art director of Maruni.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-usefontface=\"false\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\">In 2006, he <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-usefontface=\"false\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\">established \u201cSuper Normal\u201d together with Jasper Morrison. In 2017, he became a member of the judging <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-usefontface=\"false\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\">committee for the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize. He is the Vice President of Tama Art University. 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In 2022, he <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-usefontface=\"false\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\">founded the Design Science Foundation. <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SpellingErrorZoomed SCXP53429165 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-usefontface=\"false\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"annotation-94d6419f-588a-4fd5-9ba8-2a3c38692d4d SCXP53429165 BCX8\">Fukasawa<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-usefontface=\"false\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\"> has received numerous awards from Japanese and <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-usefontface=\"false\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\">international institutions, including the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology\u2019s <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-usefontface=\"false\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\">Art Encouragement Prize, the 2026 German Design Award Personality of the Year, the 2018 Isamu <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-usefontface=\"false\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\">Noguchi Award, and the 2024 Collab Design Excellence Award.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-usefontface=\"false\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\">He has also been awarded the title of Royal <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-usefontface=\"false\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\">Designer for Industry (Royal Society of Arts). <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SpellingErrorZoomed SCXP53429165 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-usefontface=\"false\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"annotation-94d6419f-588a-4fd5-9ba8-2a3c38692d4d SCXP53429165 BCX8\">Fukasawa<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-usefontface=\"false\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\"> has published several books, the most recent being <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-usefontface=\"false\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\">Naoto <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-usefontface=\"false\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\">Fukasawa<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-usefontface=\"false\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\"> EMBODIMENT <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-usefontface=\"false\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXP53429165 BCX8\">(Phaidon, 2018). <\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXP53429165 BCX8\">\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n","people_tab_pubblicazioni_contenuto":false,"people_press":"","people_tab_articoli_contenuto":false,"people_news":"","people_tab_showcase_contenuto":false,"people_showcase":"","people_tab_eventi_contenuto":false,"people_eventi":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polidesign.net\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/150739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polidesign.net\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polidesign.net\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polidesign.net\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.polidesign.net\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/150739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168865,"href":"https:\/\/www.polidesign.net\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/150739\/revisions\/168865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polidesign.net\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polidesign.net\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}