Naoki Sakai (industrial designer)

Naoki Sakai (坂井 直樹, Sakai Naoki, born 1947 in Kyoto) is a Japanese industrial designer who known as the designer of Nissan's pike car series with its retro-future design. Currently, he is a professor of Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC), a guest design director for au, and the manager of his own company, waterdesign.

Major works

• Nissan Motors
  • Be-1 (1987)
  • Pao (1989)
  • Figaro (1991)
  • Rasheen (1994)
• Suzuki SW-1 (1992)
• Olympus
  • o-product (1988)
  • Ecru (1991)
• au design project
  • HEXAGON (2005)
  • MACHINA (2005)
  • DRAPE (2006)
• Toray
  • torayvino aqua meister (2007)

External links

• Sakai Naoki's official website (Japanese)
• waterdesign (Japanese)
• Profile - from the Keio University SFC website (Japanese)/(English)
• Profile - from au design project (Japanese)