Mac Funamizu currently resides just outside Tokyo Japan and is a self-taught designer well known in the online world of product design. The ideas he conceives and the forward looking visualisations he produces bring even the most inconceivable product designs straight into the reality of today. Often fun, functional, always desirable.
We wanted to both showcase a piece of Mac's work as well as give an example of the online 3D graphics we've been developing to be viewed within your web browser. Click and drag on the 3D object Viewer frame to interact.
Among his recent work Mac has been giving his take on the world of mobile devices by producing a series of minimal form phones, containing only what they need to look fantastic and intuitive to handle. One such example is the thin, two layered, transparent, glass and brushed metal mobile incorporating a full surface touch display. I would love to get feedback on how something like this might be achieved. With the revolution in commercially available touch technology who knows what is around the corner? However at the moment it doesn't exist. This is a big problem, as with many of his designs; "We want one!"
Fixdit: What inspires you?
Mac: I'm inspired by everything: great designs I see around us, inconveniences I feel every day, nature, simple solutions, design books, design blogs, movies, kids, etc. etc.
Fixdit: Who are your main influences?
Mac: Naoto Fukasawa, Jonathan Ive, Josef Muller Brockmann
Fixdit: What is your favourite product that is available at the moment (past or present)?
Mac: Moleskine (Squared Notebook 5 x 8¼"), Apple (wired) keyboard, Aluminum Starbucks coffee mug cup
Mac Funamizu believes design is communication, and that a well designed product is one created through listening to it's users. In this respect we at Fixdit have included Mac's Glass mobile concept for you to annotate and comment on. Keep an eye on Mac Funimazu; a lot of the concepts are probably closer to becoming a manifested reality than you might think.
