Jasper Morrison
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A Book of Things
Jasper Morrison is one of the most influential product and furniture designers in the world today. Known for his “Super Normal” approach to design, he looks to find the exceptional in the world of the ordinary. Morrison’s designs are defined by beguiling simplicity, ready familiarity and a distinct playfulness.
These same qualities come to the fore in A Book of Things, a collection of projects across the broad spectrum of his activities that pairs thoughtful photographs with the designer’s succinct and characterful texts. A Book of Things is a guide to Morrison’s intense examination of the world of things that accompany our lives and shape our environment.
Super Normal Sensations of the Ordinary
The designers Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa have compiled 204 everyday objects in search of "super normal design": alongside examples of anonymous design like the Swiss Rex vegetable peeler or a simple plastic bag, there are design classics like Marcel Breuer's tubular steel side table, Dieter Ram's 606 shelving system, or Joe Colombo's Optic alarm clock of 1970. With products by Newson, Grcic, the Azumis, and the Bouroullec brothers, it also represents the generation to which Morrison and Fukasawa belong. The phenomenon of the super normal is located, as it were, beyond space and time; the past and present of product design both point to a future that has long since begun. The super normal is already lying exposed before us; it exists in the here and now; it is real and available: we need only open our eyes; Fukasawa and Morrison make it visible for us. 264 illustrations
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