Naoto Fukasawa

Gerrit Terstiege

Jasper Morrison

Silvana Annicchiarico

Sensations of the Ordinary : Naoto Fukasawa & Jasper Morrison

Super Normal

This fascinating monograph provides an unprecedented view into the inner workings of Muji, one of the most influential brands leading sustainable design. A prescient advocate of sustainable consumption and the matchless utility of good design, Muji's founding principle was to develop new and simple products at reasonable prices by making the best use of materials while minimizing their impact on the environment. From a humble inaugural line of eight products nearly three decades ago, the brand now sells nearly seven thousand different products in hundreds of its own stores in Asia, Europe, and North America.

Muji

Morrison's intense examination of the world of things that accompany our lives and shape our environment.

A Book of Things

"What feeds the inspiration of the designer? Observation. In Jasper Morrison's collection of pictures, the icons of design history meet up with the unassuming objects of everyday life. Every picture tells a story and creates a new one in juxtaposition with its neighbor -- without words, in the language of form. Morrison responds to the arbitrariness of form with simplicity and complexity, poetry and humor in a repertoire of compelling designs. A World Without Words is a pocket-sized school of seeing that addresses designers and consumers who wish to explore the universe of goods. "

A World Without Words

This book explores the effect that generations of trial and error, individual craftsmanship, and an instinct to carve out the essential with the slenderest of means brought to objects that made life both livable and meaningful to a pre-industrial society.

The Hard Life

Just what is it that catches the eye, and why? What's the significance of a broken flowerpot, a pair of identical tables side by side, a garden hose wrapped around an old car wheel? In this collection of photo essays, the famous designer Jasper Morrison examines and imagines the life behind a series of seemingly ordinary situations.

Perceptions of the Ordinary

The Good Life

Everything but the Walls

深澤直人

First Super Normal Exhibition in Tokyo, June 2006

スーパーノーマル

Lars Müller

Alessi, Alias, Cappellini, Flos, Magis, Vitra¦This publication provides a long-needed survey of the working methods and results achieved by one of the most influential European product designers. Morrison's name is not associated with spectacular consumer design products. In fact he represents an approach that many designers return to: simple and durable form, functional and true to its materials, Here Morrison has developed an unmistakable and excitingly modern formal language that is used by manufactures including FSB, Vitra, Cappellini or Flos. He developed a new design for the Hanover municipal rail system for Expo 2000.¦

Everything But the Walls

Patricia Urquiola

Philippe Starck

Giulio Ridolfo

Alfredo Häberli

Alberto Lievore

Piergiorgio Cazzaniga

Benjamin Hubert

Eight renowned designers representing eight distinct models of practicing the same profession. They are an example of how to manage talent that should be studied in schools, not only in design schools but also in business schools as success stories. We have asked them to open the doors of their studios to us, but not to show us everything they have done, which is already well documented and published, but to explain to us in their own words how they do it and to be able to learn from them. Why have they chosen one place in the world and not another to set up shop, how they work and organize their companies Dialogues with Philippe Starck, Patricia Urquiola, Giulio Ridolfo, Alfredo Häberli, Piergiorgio Cazzaniga, Alberto Lievore, Benjamin Hubert and Jasper Morrison.

Conversations about Work

"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. "

Sensations of the Ordinary

Michael Horsham

Showcasing the work of over 200 designers from around the world, this yearbook offers an authoritative guide to contemporary domestic design. Designers whose work is featured include: Ron Arad; Enrico Baleri; Antonio Citterio; James Irvine; Philippe Starck; Marc Newson; Reiko Sudo; and Renzo Piano.

The International Design Yearbook 1999

Charles-Arthur Boyer

Federica Zanco

A Book of Spoons

Gabriele Neri

Born in London, 1959, Jasper Morrison is a British designer renowned for injecting a quietly humorous style into his designs which range from chairs, tables and lamps to the more challenging tr

Marco Velardi

Jonathan Olivares

Source Materialpresents objects and keepsakes that have had a pivotal effect on the work of around 60 creative minds from the fields of architecture, art, cuisine, design, fashion, film and music. Found within the contributors' everyday working or living environments, these objects represent stepping stones for the creative mind. Source Materialis an exploration of how the creative process is informed by the legacy of material culture, but also an affirmation of the potential of an object to reflect and nurture the human spirit. Included are objects by K.K. Barrett, Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec, Santi Caleca, David Chipperfield, Carter Cleveland, Ilse Crawford, Cecilia Dean, Thomas Demand, Michelle Elie, Frida Escobedo, Naoto Fukasawa, Kersten Geers & David Van Severen, Zoe Ghertner, Konstantin Grcic, Klaus Hackl, Gabrielle Hamilton, Jamie Hayon, Edwin Heathcote, Takeshi Homma, Freddie Janssen, Nicholas Lander, Italo Lupi, Michael Maharam, Mike Meir�, Mike Mills, Jasper Morrison, Pernilla Ohrstedt, Jonathan Olivares, Sonya Park, Mark Parker, Harsh Patel, Signe Persson-Melin, Witold Rybczynski, Inga Semp�, Shirana Shahbazi, Andrew Stafford, Massimo Torrigiani, Jean Touitou, Marco Velardi, Justin Vernon, Wendy Yao and many others.

Jasper Morrison

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