Talk:Jasper Morrison

Untitled
This is a quiet good page but i need more imformation about you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.248.245.19 (talk) 09:28, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Brought up
He was born in England, educated in England, seems based in London and Paris. How much was he brought up in NY as the article says? Jagdfeld (talk) 13:42, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I've removed that bit until as source can be found to confirm. Cheers, ponyo (talk) 14:17, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

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Edit request
As I say on my user page, I'd like to augment this biography with information from published sources. I thought I'd start easy with a list of the subject's publications, while I get the hang of things. I have sourced the list at the top with the subject's professional website. As I understand from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_and_using_self-published_works, this is "Acceptable: The website for a company to support claims about itself or its employees." I have supplemented this source with sources for individual books at the publisher, a third party.

I suggest this new section:

 Publications JT at JMLtd (talk) 11:03, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

Please add ISBN's or OCLC's to this list of publications. Those may be found here. You may use the cite book function of the WikiEditor to enter the information, which should be listed as bullet points resembling the following: When ready to proceed, kindly reopen this request by altering the template's answer parameter to read from yes to no.Regards,  Spintendo  12:06, 31 May 2019 (UTC)


 * I have amended the list as requested. Thanks for your help. Three of the publications were not produced with ISBNs so :I have added sources for them. In one case, I have never seen the publication in question so I have included two references which verify its existence.JT at JMLtd (talk) 15:46, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

Reply 01-JUN-2019

 * The publications have been added under a new Bibliography section. Only publications authored by the subject and containing ISBNs were added. The COI editor is thanked for placing these in chronological order. That was very much appreciated.

Regards, Spintendo  21:11, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) Removed URLs that duplicated OCLC unique identifiers.
 * 2) Removed the More footnotes maintenance template.
 * 3) Placed the BLP sources maintenance template.
 * 4) Citation needed inline template placed in the prose where warranted.
 * 5) WP:ELNO links omitted.
 * 6) WP:PEACOCK and MOS:RELTIME prose omitted from the third paragraph.

Edit request
I work for Jasper and I'm trying to augment this page according to the guidelines. Except where I can find a third-party source such as an exhibition review or museum website, I have sourced these exhibitions using Jasper's company website. As I understand from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_and_using_self-published_works, this is "Acceptable: The website for a company to support claims about itself or its employees." An alternative source could be Jasper's monograph, where they are listed: If these sources are not satisfactory, I'd be grateful for advice.

I propose this new section:

Selected Exhibitions
 * 2019, 'Corks' at Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
 * 2019, ‘Thingness’ at Piknic, Seoul, South Korea
 * 2018, ‘Objects & Atmosphere’ at Iittala & Arabia Design Centre, Helsinki, Finland
 * 2017, ‘Thingness’ at the Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Germany
 * 2017, ‘Thingness’ at the Bauhaus Archive, Berlin, Germany
 * 2016, ‘Thingness’ at Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
 * 2016, ‘Thingness’ at Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland
 * 2015, ‘Thingness’ at Grand-Hornu, Boussu, Belgium
 * 2014, ‘Source material’, curated by Jasper Morrison, Jonathan Olivares, Marco Velardi at Kaleidoscope Project Space, Milan, Italy and Vitra Design Museum Gallery
 * 2011, ‘Danish Design – I Like It’ Design Museum Danmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
 * 2009, ‘Jasper Morrison’ at Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Bordeaux, France
 * 2006, ‘Super Normal’, curated by Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa at Axis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 * 2001, ‘Jasper Morrison’ at Yamigawa Centre, Tokyo, Japan
 * 1999, ‘Jasper Morrison’, at Axis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 * 1998, ‘IDYB Exhibition’ at Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany
 * 1994, ‘Jasper Morrison’ at Galerie Binnen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * 1992, ‘The House of Cappellini’ at Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
 * 1988, ‘A World Furniture Show’ at Prodomo, Vienna, Austria
 * 1988, ‘Some New Items for the Home, Part I’ at DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany
 * 1987, ‘Reuters News Centre’ at Reuters, Kassel, Germany

I've realised another one with an ISBN for the Bibliography:

Addition of image request

JT at JMLtd (talk) 16:54, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Reply 14-JUL-2019
Regards, Spintendo  05:37, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) Self-published and questionable sources may be used as sources of information about themselves so long as the article is not based primarily on such sources. The large amount of sourcing to the subject's own website makes the addition of much of these claims not possible. Those which are referenced to reliable secondary sources may be used, and should be included in a new edit request, leaving out those referenced by the subject himself.
 * 2) The image of the chair should be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. You may use the Upload Wizard for this.
 * 3) Only one  template need be used when multiple added-on requests are made.
 * 4) The additional bibliography was added.

Edit request
On Spintendo's guidance (thanks Spintendo), I have removed from the list of exhibitions those where the only source I have to hand is Jasper's website and the office's internal records. I've sourced one exhibition (1987) by a monograph which was published by an established publisher. As I understand it, that is acceptable, and it is the only instance where I have used that source.

I believed I had uploaded the image of the chair to Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:APC_designed_by_Jasper_Morrison.jpg Is this not the case? Thanks.

I suggest this new section:

 Selected Exhibitions


 * 2019, 'Corks' at Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
 * 2019, ‘Thingness’ at Piknic, Seoul, South Korea
 * 2018, ‘Objects & Atmosphere’ at Iittala & Arabia Design Centre, Helsinki, Finland
 * 2017, ‘Thingness’ at the Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Germany
 * 2017, ‘Thingness’ at the Bauhaus Archive, Berlin, Germany
 * 2016, ‘Thingness’ at Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
 * 2016, ‘Thingness’ at Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland
 * 2015, ‘Thingness’ at Grand-Hornu, Boussu, Belgium
 * 2014, ‘Source material’, curated by Jasper Morrison, Jonathan Olivares, Marco Velardi at Kaleidoscope Project Space, Milan, Italy and Vitra Design Museum Gallery
 * 2011, ‘Danish Design – I Like It’ at Design Museum Danmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
 * 2009, ‘Jasper Morrison’ at Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Bordeaux, France
 * 2006, ‘Super Normal’, curated by Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa at Axis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 * 1999, ‘Jasper Morrison’, at Axis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 * 1988, ‘A World Furniture Show’ at Prodomo, Vienna, Austria
 * 1987, ‘Reuters News Centre’ at Reuters, Kassel, Germany

JT at JMLtd (talk) 14:55, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Reply 7-AUG-2019
Regards, Spintendo  16:27, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) All of the references you've included here need to be formatted using the same citation style, WP:CS1. That is the style already used by the article, per WP:CITEVAR.
 * 2) The reference to YouTube needs to be removed.
 * 3) References to books need page numbers. Not all of the references you've included which are to books also have the page numbers. Please provide these.
 * 4) When ready to proceed with the requested formatting, kindly change the  template's answer parameter to read from yes to no. Thank you!

Edit request 7-AUG-2019
Spintendo 19:06, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

I have now made changes to the proposed list of Selected Exhibition, according to Spintendo's instruction, I think. I would welcome some guidance as to my previous Addition of image request. As far as I can tell, the image has been uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons, by means of the UploadWizard: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:APC_designed_by_Jasper_Morrison.jpg. Please advise if this is not the case. Thank you for your help.

On Spintendo's guidance (thanks Spintendo), I have removed from the list of exhibitions those where the only source I have to hand is Jasper's website and the office's internal records. I've sourced one exhibition (1987) by a monograph which was published by an established publisher. As I understand it, that is acceptable, and it is the only instance where I have used that source.

I believed I had uploaded the image of the chair to Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:APC_designed_by_Jasper_Morrison.jpg Is this not the case? Thanks.

I suggest this new section:

 Selected Exhibitions


 * 2019, 'Corks' at Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
 * 2019, ‘Thingness’ at Piknic, Seoul, South Korea
 * 2017, ‘Thingness’ at the Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Germany
 * 2017, ‘Thingness’ at the Bauhaus Archive, Berlin, Germany
 * 2016, ‘Thingness’ at Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
 * 2016, ‘Thingness’ at Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland
 * 2015, ‘Thingness’ at Grand-Hornu, Boussu, Belgium
 * 2011, ‘Danish Design – I Like It’ at Design Museum Danmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
 * 2009, ‘Jasper Morrison’ at Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Bordeaux, France
 * 2006, ‘Super Normal’, curated by Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa at Axis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 * 1999, ‘Jasper Morrison’, at Axis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 * 1988, ‘Some New Items for the Home, Part I’ at DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany
 * 1988, ‘A World Furniture Show’ at Prodomo, Vienna, Austria
 * 1987, ‘Reuters News Centre’ at Reuters, Kassel, Germany

JT at JMLtd (talk) 14:55, 7 August 2019 (UTC)


 * This is an older request from August 2019 that I moved from above (see editor's note for the particulars). I'll review this shortly. To preserve chronological order, the edit request and review from today (9-JAN-2020) has been bumped to the next edit request section below (with the heading "Edit request 9-JAN-2020"). Regards, Spintendo  21:27, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Reply 11-JAN-2020
Regards, Spintendo  18:31, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Given that a few of these sources feature items that are also available to be sold (and discuss them as such), I've elected to add only those exhibits referenced by The New York Times.

Edit request 9-JAN-2020
I've noticed the 'citation needed' in the second paragraph. Can I suggest this edit, with references:

He was a student at Kingston Polytechnic from 1979 to 1982, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in design. He studied for a master's in design at the Royal College of Art, London, from 1982 to 1985. In 1984, he studied on a scholarship at the Berlin University of the Arts, formerly the Hochschule für Bildende Künste. In 1986, Morrison opened his Office for Design, in London.

I also request the addition of a paragraph along these lines:

In 2006, Jasper Morrison and the Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa curated the exhibition Super Normal at the Axis Gallery in Tokyo. The exhibition was a 'celebration of normality in design'. It brought together products that Morrison and Fukasawa admired, by known and unknown designers, 'that don't try to grab our attention' as Morrison said. He explained: 'Too many designers try to make their work seem special by making it as noticeable as possible that the historic purpose of conceiving things that are easier to make and better to live with has been side-tracked'. The Super Normal exhibition led to a book of the same name.

Please add to bibliography:

JT at JMLtd (talk) 16:39, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Reply 9-JAN-2020
Regards, Spintendo  17:51, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
 * It is not clear what is meant by the phrases "studied for" and "studied on a scholarship". As Wikipedia is not based on the reporting of partial information, please indicate the eventuality of these endeavors.


 * In response to Spintendo's request for clarification, can I suggest the paragraph amended as below. I have deleted reference to the scholarship as I have no information as to its meaning beyond the statements in the publications.


 * He was a student at Kingston Polytechnic from 1979 to 1982, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in design. He was a student at the Royal College of Art from 1982, where he received a master's degree in design in 1985. In 1984, he studied at the Berlin University of the Arts, formerly the Hochschule für Bildende Künste. In 1986, Morrison opened his Office for Design, in London.


 * Thanks for reviewing this. Was this the best place to respond? I didn't want to confuse the other requests in my edit request 9 Jan.
 * JT at JMLtd (talk) 15:59, 10 January 2020 (UTC)


 * "In 1984, he studied at the Berlin University of the Arts" Please clarify. Regards, Spintendo  07:58, 11 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi
 * I have found this explanation spoken by Jasper and published:
 * 'I had a scholarship in Berlin in ’83, ’84 – something called the Shakespeare Scholarship... Hochschule der Künste, HDK was where I studied. The Shakespeare Prize was awarded to an artist by a Hamburg benefactor with a certain amount of money. So David Hockney was awarded that prize in ’83, I think, and he had to choose someone for the Scholarship. He didn’t have any idea who to give it to, and Kasmin said, ‘Why don’t you give it to Jasper?’ And ... so I was shipped off to Berlin. Actually, I could have chosen anywhere, but I chose Berlin. I had a friend who was teaching there, at the HDK, so it was much easier to do it that way. So my middle year of Royal College I spent in Berlin, which was fantastic.'


 * 'Kasmin' = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kasmin
 * David Hockney's holding of the prize is testified here: https://thedavidhockneyfoundation.org/resources/education-awards and here https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Toepfer_Stiftung_F._V._S.
 * The latter page explains, in German, that the prize 'was linked to a one-year grant at a German university for a recipient that the award winner selected.' The citation associated to the statement says the same: 'Associated with the Shakespeare Prize was a monthly grant of 920 euros for a young person proposed by the award winner for a one-year course at a German university.' (When Jasper went there were no Euros.) The prize no longer exists apparently. http://www.kulturpreise.de/web/preise_info.php?preisd_id=2343
 * Does this provide clarification? Perhaps the statement in question could be revised to: 'In 1984, he was the recipient of a one-year grant to spend at a university in Germany. He chose the Berlin University of the Arts, formerly...' JT at JMLtd (talk) 12:24, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

Edit request
I made this image request previously: Addition of image request

Spintendo advised me that the image should be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. I believe this has been done: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:APC_designed_by_Jasper_Morrison.jpg Is this not so? Please can someone advise? I am deliberately avoiding updating the page myself. Thanks. JT at JMLtd (talk) 13:10, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

I am unsure of where this image would be placed in the article, as the current text does not mention Vitra or the APC chair. Per MOS:IMAGES the images should be directly relevant to the article. I suggest opening an new edit request below that includes text about Morrison's involvement with Vitra, and the image can be added with that text. Z1720 (talk) 17:46, 25 July 2021 (UTC)