KDDI shows new Fukasawa prototype

Japanese mobile phone manufacturer KDDI has updated its website with images of Infobar 2, a new version of Naoto Fukasawa’s iconic Infobar phone.

The phone is one of several new prototypes developed as part of KDDI’s experimental AU Design Project, which has so far seen models by designers including Tokujin Yoshioka and Marc Newson put into production.

Yoshioka’s Media Skin phone, which was developed as a prototype in 2005, has just been put into production – see dezeen’s story here.
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