Kazuo Kawasaki

Kazuo Kawasaki (川崎和男) Ph.D 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. Representative works include the wheelchair "CARNA" (part of the permanent collection at MoMA New York[1]), the "Kazuo Kawasaki" brand of eyeware[2] and the "EIZO" brand of computer displays.[3]

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).