"Fukasawa has designed furniture, appliances, and a wide range of everyday objects. When we ask how he now sees the smartphone in our lives, and whether it feels closer to a tool or to a companion, he does not answer with a metaphor about friendship or dependence. He goes straight to something more concrete, which is size, and explains that mobile phones kept shrinking until they reached the smallest form that people could still use comfortably, then stopped."
"Once that size is fixed, the phone stops being just an efficient tool and, because we always carry it, becomes part of daily life. As new functions and applications accumulate, the phone becomes more than a neutral object. It starts to feel like something that responds to you, and something you relate to on an emotional level as well as a functional one."
Naoto Fukasawa and realme's fifth collaboration, the realme 16 Pro Master Edition, applies an Urban Wild Design that pairs a softly textured, bio-based back with a mirror-polished camera island and frame. Past Master Editions used concrete metaphors—onion and garlic for food, concrete and brick for architecture, a suitcase for exploration, and paper for sustainability—while Urban Wild evokes pebble, wheat field, and jewelry. The design reflects the idea that smartphones have reached an optimal handheld footprint, so they shift from pure tools to carried, emotionally connected objects as functions accumulate and phones become more tactile and aesthetic.
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