Jasper Morrison |
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| Author:
| Morrison, Jasper |
| ISBN: | 978-2-906571-73-0 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1999 |
| Publisher: | Dis Voir Editions
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $28.50 |
Book Description:
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A key figure of the 1990s neo-minimalist movement
"More than the first impression, form is a component on the road to a final solution and a very important part of it: you can't divide it from function, you can't divide it from other aspects of design and in the end a suppression of form is even necessary." -Jasper Morrison In the early 1980s, Jasper Morrison anticipated what was to be the ethical position of the designer in a period of crisis, emerging as one of...
More DescriptionA key figure of the 1990s neo-minimalist movement
"More than the first impression, form is a component on the road to a final solution and a very important part of it: you can't divide it from function, you can't divide it from other aspects of design and in the end a suppression of form is even necessary." -Jasper Morrison
In the early 1980s, Jasper Morrison anticipated what was to be the ethical position of the designer in a period of crisis, emerging as one of the instigators of the neo-minimalist movement of the 1990s. Concerned with questions of plasticity and efficacy, he eliminates decorative effects in favour of functionalism.