... Nor are we saying that Britain's best designers were even influenced by the island's youth. Jasper Morrison, for example, became the designer he is because he visited a Memphis Group exhibition in Milan and then spent time in Berlin with Andreas Brandolini, Axel Kufus and other members of the...
... But of course it’s not just the Bouroullcs and Jongerius, also Jasper Morrison plays an important role or Antonio Citterio and then of course we also have the design classics. And so one has altogether this collage. (smow): You spoke earlier about soft seating and in that area Vitra is ... Then with the Tip Ton chair from Barber & Osgerby a chair that is a real innovation in terms of the sitting experience. And in Waver from Konstantin Grcic we have a chair that is something...
... In addition Vitra presented new products from Naoto Fukasawa, Arik Levy and the aforementioned HAL by Jasper Morrison. Despite the marketing folks best attempts to muddy the waters, Vitra still base a lot of their office design concepts on a loose interpretaton of Charles Eames "Collage"...
... Amongst the plethora of new products launched by Vitra at Orgatec 2010 in Cologne was HAL, a new shell chair series by British designer Jasper Morrison. Over a cup of tea we spoke to Jasper Morrison about HAL, Vitra - and what his own office looks like. (smow)blog: Your presenting ... It's a one piece plastic shell, which I think is very comfortable, but to get there we had to draw it, I don't know, about 15 times and went through at least 10 prototypes. (smow)blog: And what...
... In the second half England brought on Jasper Morrison in the hope that the change in style would upset Fritz Haller - it didn't and late in the second half Fritz Haller demonstrated once again why his USM Haller system is so good when he effortlessly converted a lowboard L into a...
... With Tom Dixon replacing Jasper Morrison, the English took an early lead with the Dixon Bronze Copper Shade and moved further ahead with a beautifully worked Off Cut stool. In the second half Charles Rennie Mackintosh narrowed the gap with his Hill House chair; however Tom Dixon responded with a...
... Despite the rumours flying around ahead of this match, England stuck with Jasper Morrison rather than pitting Tom Dixon against Ron Arad. Whereas many would have relished the opportunity to have witnessed the two masters of "real" industrial design going head to head the Morrison/Arad ... Unmoved by Ron Arad's Bookworm, Jasper Morrison concentrated on his chair work and took the lead with his Basel chair for Vitra; a simple move that produced the deserved result. Ron Arad...
... Which design blog is going to feature Jasper Morrison's Ply-Chair when they have photo of a bookcase that looks like to two paradise birds engaging in a mating ritual atop Carmen Miranda? Ok we would. But not many others. For us the true art of reduction in design is when the designer reduces...
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Jasper Morrison (*1959 in London/UK), studied at the Royal College of Art in London before pursuing
further studies at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin on a fellowship. In 1986 he founded his own design
studio in London. Two early projects that gained attention were room installations, "Reuters News Centre"
for Documenta 8 in Kassel, and "Some New Items for the Home" at the DAAD Gallery in Berlin. The
stringent concepts of these projects, which featured starkly reductive objects, represented a reaction to the
formal excesses of postmodernism. Jasper Morrison became a leading figure of "New Simplicity", a
movement that advocated a more modest and also more serious approach to design. In addition to furniture, he
has also created lamps, home accessories, textiles, a tram system for the city of Hanover, Germany, and a bus
shelter for the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein. His joint 2006 exhibition with the Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa,
entitled "Super Normal", put forth provocative theses that once again stimulated great discussion.
Through designs such as Cork Bowl, his Morrison Bench or his Park Sofa and Armchair family Jasper Morrison has,
together with Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec and Hella Jongerius, made an essential contributions to the steadily
growing Vitra Home Collection.
