Jacob Jensen

Jacob Jensen ( born April 29, 1926 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish industrial designer. He became known among other works for Bang & Olufsen and exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art

Biography

Jensen grew up as the son of an upholsterer in the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen. He left after the seventh grade at the elementary school. In 1948 he was accepted at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in the department of furniture design. There he learned after the design methods of Kaare Klint, a representative of functionalism, and Hans Wegner. He left school in 1952, specializing in industrial design. From 1952 to 1958 was employed by the first Danish industrial design studio and was built in 1954 on its head. In 1958 he founded his own design studio named " Jacob Jensen Design" in Frederiksberg with eight employees. Since the administrative expenses of the studio it was too big, he moved with two employees continue to Jyllinge. There she developed for General Electric, a design concept that but did not use the company. This concept was later adopted by Bang & Olufsen ( B & O). He was from 1959 to 1961 as an Assistant Professor of Industrial Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago operates.

Work

Jacob Jensen has designed over 500 products, such as eg Radios, clocks, phones, scales, kitchens, glasses and smoke detectors. For Gaggenau household appliances, he worked as chief designer. He has the " Jensen One", a car designed based on the Citroën XM. Some of his design work has been included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in the collection Arkiv for Dansk Design of the Design Museum Danmark in Copenhagen.

Exhibitions (selection)

Awards (selection)

  • IF Design Award: 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1990, 1991, 1996, 1997, 2000.
  • Red dot design award: product design 2002 for Timer TIMER
  • Red dot design award: product design 2006 for the wrist watch " chronograph 600 "
  • Inclusion in the list of the "Great Danes " by the Danish Foreign Ministry.
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