Naoki Sakai (industrial designer)

Naoki Sakai (坂井 直樹) is a Japanese industrial designer who known as the designer of Nissan's pike car series with its retro-future design. Currently, he is a professor of Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC), a guest design director for au, and the manager of his own company, waterdesign. He has collaborated with companies such as Nissan, Suzuki, Toyota (WiLL), Olympus, KDDI, and Cassina.

The S Cargo was not designed by Sakai. Sakai led the Pike designs and created a proposal for the Nissan Figaro, but the design selected for final production (first shown at the 1989 Tokyo Motor Show) was designed by Nissan's in-house design team, led by Jim Shimizu (Shimizu Jun).

Major works

 * Nissan Motors
 * Be-1 (1987)
 * Pao (1989)
 * Rasheen (1994)
 * Suzuki SW-1 (1992)
 * Olympus
 * o-product (1988)
 * Ecru (1991)
 * au design project
 * HEXAGON (2005)
 * MACHINA (2005)
 * DRAPE (2006)
 * Toray
 * torayvino aqua meister (2007)