Jasper Morrison

Jasper Morrison CBE[1] (born 1959) is an English product and furniture designer.[2]

Jasper Morrison

CBE
Cover of the Icon Design magazine, February 2016: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore with Jasper Morrison
Born1959 (1959) (age 63)
London, England
NationalityBritish
EducationBryanston School
Alma materKingston Polytechnic
Royal College of Art
Berlin University of the Arts
OccupationIndustrial designer
Known forChair design; founder of Jasper Morrison Ltd; co-originator of the Super Normal design manifesto

Biography
A chair designed by Jasper Morrison for Vitra, launched in 2016

Morrison was born in London, England.[3] He was educated at Bryanston School in Dorset, England. He received a Bachelor of Design degree from Kingston Polytechnic Design School in 1982[4] and a master's degree in Design from the Royal College of Art, London, in 1985.[5] He also studied at the Berlin University of the Arts, formerly the Hochschule für Bildende Künste. In March 2007, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in Design from Kingston University.[6]

TW 2000, a 1990s Hanover light rail vehicle designed by Jasper Morrison and Herbert Lindinger

Jasper Morrison has collaborated with the Japanese retail company MUJI on a variety of products ranging from houseware to housing.[7][8] Additionally, Morrison curated the Super Normal exhibition with Japanese Designer Naoto Fukasawa in 2006, which presented 200 ordinary or anonymously designed products that were devoid of gimmicks and branding.[9] Morrison is the lead designer at boutique Swiss consumer technology company Punkt., known for its minimalist MP01 and MP02 mobile phones.[10]

In a review of Morrison's 2015 exhibition Thingness at Le Grand-Hornu, the design critic Alice Rawsthorn writes: "Mr. Morrison, 55, is one of the most influential product designers of our time."[2]

Morrison was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the UK 2020 Birthday Honours for services to design.[11]

Select exhibitions
  • 2006, Super Normal, curated by Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa at Axis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan[12]
  • 2015, Thingness at Grand-Hornu, Boussu, Belgium[2]

Bibliography
  • Morrison, Jasper (1997). A Book of Spoons. Imschoot. ISBN 9789072191854. OCLC 41423606.
  • Morrison, Jasper; Ganseforth, Heinrich (1997). A New Tram for Hannover - Design: Jasper Morrison. Gebr. Mann. ISBN 9783786122487. OCLC 75902074.
  • Morrison, Jasper (1998). A World Without Words (2nd ed.). Lars Müller. ISBN 9783907044827. OCLC 456768503.
  • Boyer, Charles-Arthur; Morrison, Jasper; Zanco, Federica (1999). Jasper Morrison. Dis voir. ISBN 9782906571730. OCLC 757671494.
  • Morrison, Jasper (2002). Jasper Morrison: Everything but the Walls. Lars Müller. ISBN 9783907078440. OCLC 469426651.
  • Morrison, Jasper; Mauderli, Laurence (2006). Jasper Morrison: Répertoire pour une forme: Carrara tables. B. Chauveau. ISBN 9782915837100. OCLC 470651351.
  • Fukasawa, Naoto; Morrison, Jasper (2007). Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary. Lars Müller. ISBN 9783037781067. OCLC 804331139.
  • Boysson, Bernadette de; Morrison, Jasper (2012). Jasper Morrison au musée. B. Chauveau. ISBN 9782915837582. OCLC 888838417.
  • Morrison, Jasper; Olivares, Jonathan; Verlardi, Marco (2014). Source Material: A Project by Jasper Morrison, Jonathan Olivares & Marco Velardi. Vitra Design Museum. ISBN 9783931936976. OCLC 967841666.
  • Morrison, Jasper (2014). The Good Life: Perceptions of the Ordinary. Lars Müller. ISBN 9783037784235. OCLC 884953735.
  • ——— (2015). A Book of Things. Lars Müller. ISBN 9783037784631. OCLC 1023259812.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • ——— (2017). The Hard Life. Lars Müller. ISBN 9783037785140. OCLC 992532936.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

References
  1. "Order of the British Empire". The London Gazette. UK. 10 October 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. Rawsthorn, Alice (28 May 2015). "Review: Jasper Morrison's Praise of Normal Things". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 February 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "Biography".
  4. "Our Alumni". UK: Kingston University London. Retrieved 11 February 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. "Greasing the Wheels". Damnº. 1 January 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. "Designed for success". UK: Kingston University London. 7 July 2009.
  7. "Jasper Morrison | Muji chair". jaspermorrison.com. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  8. "Jasper Morrison | Hut". jaspermorrison.com. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  9. Bartal, Ory (2020). Critical design in Japan: Material culture, luxury, and the avant-garde (1 ed.). Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-5261-3997-9. JSTOR j.ctvzgb83c.
  10. "Jasper Morrison Design | Punkt". www.punkt.ch. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  11. "No. 63135". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 October 2020. p. B10.
  12. Rawsthorn, Alice (11 June 2006). "Celebrating the beauty of 'super normal' little objects of daily life - Style - International Herald Tribune". The New York Times.
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