The object
Naoto Fukasawa designed MUJI’s wall-mounted CD player, a compact physical interface whose pull-cord operation made it a widely recognized example of unobtrusive product design. His studio’s current biography records a 2024 design-excellence award, and its project list documents a 2024 Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition.
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What Naoto did
designed MUJI’s wall-mounted CD player and other reduced-form consumer products
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Why it matters
The CD player is a durable reference point in accounts of restrained, intuitive consumer-product design.
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Living-status check
Naoto Fukasawa Design lists a 2024 Collab Design Excellence Award and was accessed in July 2026.