Kazuo Kawasaki
Illustration — Kazuo Kawasaki Kazuo Kawasaki is a Japanese industrial designer born in Fukui Prefecture in 1949. He graduated from Kanazawa College of Art in 1972. Kawasaki is a professor at Osaka University and a visiting professor at Tama Art University and Kanazawa Institute of Technology.
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- 1949 · Fukui.
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- Japan
- Occupation
- designer
- Education
- Kanazawa College of Art · Fukui Prefectural Koshi High School
- Languages
- Japanese
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Illustration — Kazuo Kawasaki Kazuo Kawasaki is a Japanese industrial designer born in Fukui Prefecture in 1949. He graduated from Kanazawa College of Art in 1972. Kawasaki is a professor at Osaka University and a visiting professor at Tama Art University and Kanazawa Institute of Technology.
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Representative works include the wheelchair "CARNA" (part of the permanent collection at MoMA New York), the "Kazuo Kawasaki" brand of eyeware and the "EIZO" brand of computer displays. One of his research projects is artificial heart design. Kawasaki was Apple design director in the early 1990s and designed portable computer devices (named MindTop, POPEYE, Pluto, Sweatpea, JEEP).
Kazuo Kawasaki studied at Kanazawa College of Art and Fukui Prefectural Koshi High School. The recorded working language is Japanese. Employment is recorded with University of Osaka, Tama Art University and Nagoya City University. Work by Kazuo Kawasaki is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art.
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1949
Kazuo Kawasaki born at Fukui.
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Kazuo Kawasaki is recorded as having studied at Kanazawa College of Art and Fukui Prefectural Koshi High School.
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