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Timothy Jacob Jensen, (Born April 1962 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is the CEO and chief designer of Jacob Jensen Holding, Jacob Jensen Design and Jacob Jensen Brand.

Early life
In 1978 Timothy Jacob Jensen was apprenticed to his father. For three years – until 1981 – the two worked closely together in the studio in Hejlskov. In 1981 the senior Jensen left to cruise the Mediterranean while Timothy Jacob Jensen stayed behind and, until 1984, managed the daily business of the studio together with a number of designers.

In 1985 Timothy Jacob Jensen moved to Copenhagen and established his own studio. For a sensitive person who had grown up with the sound of the wind rustling in the woods, the big city cacophony was too invasive for thinking in pure, clarified lines. Timothy Jacob Jensen closed the studio after three years and set out on a combined design and world journey. Along the way he worked for Ross Littell in Milan and Form Australia in Melbourne.

In 1990 Timothy Jacob Jensen took over the house and studio in Hejlskov and became director, main shareholder and chief designer of Jacob Jensen Design. Timothy Jacob Jensen has since had the overall responsibility for all the designs and initiatives leaving the company.

Jacob Jensen Design Today
Under Timothy Jacob Jensen’s leadership Jacob Jensen Design has grown in a number of ways. The studio has expanded with a new section so that the building now covers 1100 square metres. Most recently, a new building in the village of Hejlskov has been acquired to expand the Jacob Jensen Brand and to house a Jacob Jensen Design museum.

During the years of Timothy Jacob Jensen’s leadership, the staff has grown from 1 – 1 to 10 – 12 people, and finally, the areas of design have expanded as well to include designs of wind turbines, community cultural centre, traffic roundabouts, kitchens, TV-studios, graphic identity for the Danish Social Democrats, clarification of Scandinavian values for the Volvo Car Corporation and electronic entertainment equipment for LG Electronics. Jacob Jensen is still an active designer on selected projects and regularly acts as a sparring partner for Timothy

The brand, JACOB JENSEN™ As head of Jacob Jensen Design, in 1998 Timothy Jacob Jensen founded Jacob Jensen Holding and in 1999 founded the brand JACOB JENSEN™. This means that the Jacob Jensen house now consists of a studio, which while designing for others, also designs for its own product line. Among these are watches, jewellery, eye glasses, weather stations, kitchen scales, smoke alarms and telephones, all marketed by a network of associates. A number of leading museums, among them MoMA in New York, carry the JACOB JENSEN™ products.

The form language, “JACOB JENSEN”
A homogenous and easily recognizable form language characterizes Jacob Jensen Design. A language originally developed by Jacob Jensen and further developed and carried on to new product types by his son Timothy Jacob Jensen. For many people “Jacob Jensen” is not a person or a studio or a product portfolio. It is an elegant, streamlined form language in silver and black.

The form language “Jacob Jensen” is however more than elegant contrasts. It is a thought- through entity, which embraces distance, closeness, and touch.

Distance: A single, streamlined, ultramodern form, combined with contrasts in silver and black. It is this part of the form language which is primarily associated with Jacob Jensen and which is so striking that people all over the world, recognize a Jacob Jensen design at a distance.

Closeness: Worked-through aesthetic details, in relation both to the design of the three- dimensional, such as switches, and graphics. It is particularly in this care for detail, that Jacob Jensen’s roots in Danish furniture crafts become visible.

Touch: Something magical happens when you touch the product. A display comes to life, a lid slides open in meditative slowness, an unexpected user panel appears. There is a seductive gift included.

Awards and Exhibitions
Under Timothy Jacob Jensen’s leadership, Jacob Jensen Design has maintained the very high level with regard to international awards and exhibitions. Two of Timothy Jacob Jensen works – the watches 6101 and 6101 – were included in MoMA’s permanent collection in 1986. Further, Timothy Jacob Jensen’s designs have been exhibited in Paris, Nice, Vienna, Munich and Chicago. As for awards, Timothy Jacob Jensen’s work has received recognition, in particular for the exclusive kitchen hardware company Gaggenau, for whom he was the external chief designer during the period 1991 – 1998. Timothy Jacob Jensen’s design for Gaggenau have been awarded with the German Red Dot - Design Innovation, IF. Good Industry Forum and Innovative Design Nr. 1, a total of eight times.

In Denmark, Timothy Jacob Jensen has received the Danish Industrial Design award three times and is represented in the permanent collection of the Museum of Art and Design in Copenhagen. Further, in 1995-96, he was a member of ”The Crystal Ball”, a think-tank established by the then Minister of Culture, Jytte Hilden. He is included in the Portrait Gallery at the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle.

Timeline

 * 2009    Visiting professor at Shenkar College of Engineering & Design, Israel
 * 2009    Visiting professor at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel
 * 2008    Founder of House of Jacob Jensen and The Jacob Jensen Design Collection, Hejlskov, Denmark
 * 2008    Speaker at Don’t stop 08, Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, Denmark
 * 2008    Jury member at the Estonian Design Award BRUNO in connection with "Tallinn Design Night", Estonia
 * 2007    Visiting professor at Istanbul Mimar Sinan University, Turkey
 * 2007	  Visiting professor at Aarhus University – Institute of Business and Technology, Denmark
 * 2006    Designer of the sculptures ”The 11 Stars of Skive”
 * 2003-04 In charge of the branding platform for The Danish Social Democratic Party
 * 2002-	  Visiting professor at Aalborg University, Denmark
 * 2001    Strategic design for Volvo Car Corporation
 * 1999    Founder of JACOB JENSEN BRAND
 * 1998    Founder of JACOB JENSEN HOLDING
 * 1995-96 Member of ”The Crystal Ball”, think-tank of the Danish Ministry of Culture
 * 1991-98 External Chief Designer for Gaggenau Hausgeräte GmbH
 * 1990-	  Main shareholder, Director and Chief Designer, Jacob Jensen Design
 * 1988-89 Worked abroad at Ross Littell, Milan and Form Australia, Melbourne, on a round the world trip.
 * 1988    Artist at the Danish Circus Hamilton
 * 1985-87 Own studio in Copenhagen
 * 1982-84 Studio Chief, Jacob Jensen Design
 * 1978-91 External designer for Bang & Olufsen
 * 1978-81 Apprenticed to his father as an industrial designer
 * 1962    Born in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen (son of Jacob Jensen and Patricia Ryan)