MULTIPLI DI CIBO FOODESIGN GUZZINI MADE IN JAPAN



 Kazuo Kawasaki / portrait / 2008  previous next 
Design director. Doctor of medical science. Professor of graduate school of engineering, Osaka University. Emeritus Professor of Graduate School of Design & Architecture, Nagoya City University Visiting Professor of Tama Art University. Visiting Professor of Kanazawa Institute of Technology. Committee member of deliberation council of Good Design Award in Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization ; competent authority of METI. Kazuo Kawasaki was born in Fukui Japan in 1949 and graduated from Kanazawa College of Arts. He worked as industrial designer at Toshiba. As a result of traffic accident, at the age of 28, in 1978 Kawasaki was implanted the metal plate in his back in surgery and forced to spend time in a wheelchair. He established his own company and worked as a design director for various companies; Apple, Canon, Eizo, Fujitsu, Matusda, Moriseiki, NTT DoCoMo, Sony, Toshiba etc. Kawasaki's design knows no limit; he has designed cutleries, glasses, wheel chairs, computer hardware, CRT and LCD monitors, nuclear power systems, artificial organs and products in multi-dimensional space, among other things. His design works were awarded a lot of prizes and selected for the permanent collections of the art museums in the world. In recent years he has worked resolutely as a researcher and as an educator to integrate science, technology, medicine and art comprehensively. Chairman of juror for the Japan Good Design Award in 2001-2003. His solo exhibition, "Artificial Heart" was presented at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan 2006. Chairman of International Design Competition 2007.
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