Timothy Jacob Jensen (born 27 April 1962) is a Danish
industrial designer
Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical products that are to be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features, which takes place in advance of the manufactur ...
.
He was best known as
CEO
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and
Chief Designer
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of Jacob Jensen Design (
Scandinavia
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’s oldest design studio) from 1990 to 2018. Jensen was also the founder of the Scandinavian
brand
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JACOB JENSEN. He has created numerous well-known designs for
timepieces
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,
jewellery
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, communication equipment,
houseware
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Economic role
Businesses that produce household goods are categorize ...
, furniture and kitchens. He has also been prominent within the
automotive design, branding and value clarification fields.
Early life and career
Timothy Jacob Jensen was born in
Copenhagen
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,
Denmark
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, and was raised in Hejlskov (
Central Jutland
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).
He is the son of the Danish industrial designer
Jacob Jensen and Patricia Ryan.
Early career
In 1978, Jensen became an apprentice at his father’s (
Jacob Jensen) studio. Timothy Jacob Jensen joined Jacob Jensen, David Lewis, and Bang & Olufsen’s team of chief designers at the age of 17. In 1982, he became chief designer of Jacob Jensen Design. In 1985, he opened his own studio in
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...
called ''Voss Foerlev & Jensen''. The studio closed in 1988, at which time Jensen started collaborating with various international designers including Ross Litell.
In 1983, he designed his first car name "Logicar".
Founding JACOB JENSEN
In 1985, he founded JACOB JENSEN. The company designs lifestyle products including
watches
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,
clock
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s,
jewellery
Jewellery ( UK) or jewelry (U.S.) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes. From a wester ...
,
smoke alarm
A smoke detector is a device that senses smoke, typically as an indicator of fire. Smoke detectors are usually housed in plastic enclosures, typically shaped like a disk about in diameter and thick, but shape and size vary. Smoke can be detecte ...
s,
telephone
A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into e ...
s, kitchen products, and other products. In 1985, Jensen designed wristwatches ''The Classic series models 510'' and ''520'', which were included at the design study collection in the
Museum of Modern Art
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It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
(
New York City
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). In 1996, the
wristwatches
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were also awarded “Watch of the Year.”
In 1990, he purchased ''Jacob Jensen Design'' and became the company's
CEO
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and chief designer. Jensen developed Jacob Jensen Design internationally, collaborating with numerous major companies including
ECCO
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Art and entertainment
* ''Ecco the Dolphin'' (series), a series of action-adventure science fiction video games
** ''Ecco the Dolphin'', a 1992 video game
* Ecco (''Gotham''), a TV series character
Organizations
...
(Danish shoe manufacturer),
Gaggenau Hausgeräte
is a German manufacturer of high-end home appliances. The company was established in 1683 as the Eisenwerke Gaggenau A.G. in the Black Forest region of south-west Germany by German aristocrat Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden.
The company ...
,
Bang & Olufsen
Bang & Olufsen (B&O) is a Danish high-end consumer electronics company that designs and manufactures audio products, television sets, and telephones. It was founded in 1925 by Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, who designed a radio to work with alt ...
,
Haier
Haier Group Corporation () is a Chinese multinational home appliances and consumer electronics company headquartered in Qingdao, Shandong. It designs, develops, manufactures and sells products including refrigerators, air conditioners, washin ...
,
LG,
Panasonic
formerly between 1935 and 2008 and the first incarnation of between 2008 and 2022, is a major Japanese multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Kadoma, Osaka P ...
,
Steinway Lyngdorf (
Steinway and Sons
Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway (), is a German-American piano company, founded in 1853 in Manhattan by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway). The company's growth led to the opening of a ...
),
Toshiba
, commonly known as Toshiba and stylized as TOSHIBA, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Its diversified products and services include power, industrial and social infrastructure system ...
,
Vertu
Vertu is a British-based manufacturer and retailer of luxury handmade mobile phones, established by Finnish mobile-phone manufacturer Nokia in 1998.
Concept
According to ''The Economist'', the concept was to market phones explicitly as fashio ...
,
Lufthansa
Deutsche Lufthansa AG (), commonly shortened to Lufthansa, is the flag carrier of Germany. When combined with its subsidiaries, it is the second- largest airline in Europe in terms of passengers carried. Lufthansa is one of the five founding m ...
, and
Volvo
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. From 1991 to 1998, Jensen worked as chief designer for
Gaggenau Hausgeräte
is a German manufacturer of high-end home appliances. The company was established in 1683 as the Eisenwerke Gaggenau A.G. in the Black Forest region of south-west Germany by German aristocrat Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden.
The company ...
’s design programme, where he designed ceramic hobs, built-in ovens, extractor hoods, dishwashers, washing machines and tumble dryers. A number of these products received awards including the EB900 Built-in oven and CK494 Glass ceramic hob. At 48 years of age, he became professor at Fudan University in Shanghai.
Jensen's works have been featured is various museums, including the
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
(
New York City
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), the
Musée des Arts décoratifs, Strasbourg
The Musée des Arts décoratifs (Museum of Decorative Art) of the city of Strasbourg, France, is found on the ground floor of the Palais Rohan, the former city palace of the Prince-Bishops from the Rohan family. One half of the museum is made u ...
(Paris), the Danish Museum of Art and Design (now known as
Danish Museum of Art & Design
The Designmuseum Denmark () is a museum in Copenhagen for Danish and international design and crafts. It features works of famous Danish designers like Arne Jacobsen, Jacob Jensen and Kaare Klint, who was one of the two architects who remodeled ...
), the
Museum für angewandte Kunst Frankfurt (
Frankfurt
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), the Danish Watch Museum (
Aarhus
Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and approximately northwest ...
), Het Kleine Veenloo Museum (
Veenendaal
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),
Royal Library, Denmark
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(
Copenhagen
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), Kalmar Konstmuseum (Kalmar), the
Chicago Athenaeum
The Chicago Athenaeum is a private museum of architecture and design, based in Galena, Illinois. The museum focuses on the art of design in all areas of the discipline: architecture, industrial and product design, graphics, landscape architecture, ...
(
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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Bauhaus Museum, Weimar
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(
Berlin
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),
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
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(
Copenhagen
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),
Die Neue Sammlung
Die Neue Sammlung is one of the leading design museums in the world, with the largest collection of industrial and product design.
Founded in 1907 with the ideas of the German Werkbund, Die Neue Sammlung became an official state museum in 1925 ...
(
Munich
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), and others.
In 2011, Jensen founded his first subsidiary, the ''Jacob Jensen Design / DeTao Shanghai'' studio. The studio was created in collaboration with the DeTao Group at SIVA Campus in
Shanghai
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. In 2014, ''Jacob Jensen Design'' established its second subsidiary studio named ''Jacob Jensen Design / KMUTT Bangkok''. The studio was founded in collaboration with
.
Jensen terminated his position and sold all of his shares from Jacob Jensen Design May 2018 and stopped working for the company in October 2018. He left Jacob Jensen Design to start new businesses includin
Timothyjacobjensenstudios.com(2019)
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Bytimothy2022).
Other Work
Timothy Jacob Jensen was appointed as Master of the ''DeTao Masters Academy'' in
Beijing
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in 2011. He was later appointed as
Honorary professor
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at the
Shanghai Institute of Visual Art
Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts (SIVA) (上海视觉艺术学院) is a public university in Songjiang District of Shanghai, China.
SIVA was established in September 2005 with the approval of the Ministry of Education. The school was founded a ...
(SIVA),
China
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. Jensen was subsequently awarded the title of High-level Expert by the ''China Industrial Design Association'' (CIDA). He currently also serves as a lecturer at universities, companies, and other institutions.
Timothy Jacob Jensen was appointed by the iF International Forum Design to be jury member of iF design Award 2019 in the 'Discipline Product’ category. He founded Timothy Jacob Jenson Studios. As CEO at Jacob Jensen Design, he founded the Scandinavian lifestyle brand Jacob Jensen, which is currently represented in 30 countries.
In 2017 Jensen was named Designer of the Year in China, and in 2019 he was selected as jury member for the
iF Product Design Award. Jensen is considered the most awarded Danish designer, heading the most award-winning design family in the world.
Jacob Jensen Design
In 1990, Jensen became chief executive officer and chief designer of ''Jacob Jensen Design'', and expanded the company internationally. The studio focuses on design, and has branches in
Denmark
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,
China
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, and
Thailand
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. In 2018, Jensen left his positions as chief designer, CEO and board member, and is currently working under his own name. In 2019 he founded Timothy Jacob Jensen Studios, and in 2021 he launched digital
SaaS
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SaaS is cons ...
platform Designers Trust. In June 2022 the
Skive Municipality
Skive Municipality is a municipality (Danish, '' kommune'') in Mid Jutland Region on Salling Peninsula, a part of the larger Jutland Peninsula in northwest Denmark. It covers an area of 688.09 km2 (2013) and has a population of 46,938 (1 Apri ...
gave
Barack Obama
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and his family the gift of four wrist watches by the Timothy Jacob Jensen Studios. The watches were designed by Timothy Jensen and his daughter.
Design Style
Timothy Jacob Jensen developed his father's design works, which involved the merging of the
International style (architecture) and
MAYA
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* Maya peoples, of southern Mexico and northern Central America
** Maya civilization, the historical civilization of the Maya peoples
** Maya language, the languages of the Maya peoples
* Maya (Ethiopia), a populat ...
style. Jensen turned his father's
two-dimensional
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graphic works into
three-dimensional
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designs, applying this to multiple major brands including
Gaggenau
Gaggenau is a town in the district of Rastatt, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located some 8 km northeast of Baden-Baden.
History
Gaggenau was first mentioned in local records in 1243 under the name "Gaggenaw". The present district ...
,
Vertu
Vertu is a British-based manufacturer and retailer of luxury handmade mobile phones, established by Finnish mobile-phone manufacturer Nokia in 1998.
Concept
According to ''The Economist'', the concept was to market phones explicitly as fashio ...
,
Steinway Lyngdorf (
Steinway & Sons
Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway (), is a German-American piano company, founded in 1853 in Manhattan by German piano builder Henry E. Steinway, Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway). The company's growth led to ...
), and JACOB JENSEN. Jensen's maxim is “Form follows feeling.”
Gaggenau Hausgeräte
From 1991 to 1998, Jensen was served as designer for
Gaggenau Hausgeräte
is a German manufacturer of high-end home appliances. The company was established in 1683 as the Eisenwerke Gaggenau A.G. in the Black Forest region of south-west Germany by German aristocrat Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden.
The company ...
’s design programme. This comprised several ranges of products including ceramic hobs, built-in ovens,
extractor hood
A kitchen hood, exhaust hood, extractor hood, or range hood is a device containing a mechanical fan that hangs above the stove or cooktop in the kitchen. It removes airborne grease, combustion products, fumes, smoke, heat, and steam from the ai ...
s,
dishwasher
A dishwasher is a machine that is used to clean dishware, cookware, and cutlery automatically. Unlike manual dishwashing, which relies heavily on physical scrubbing to remove soiling, the mechanical dishwasher cleans by spraying hot water, ...
s,
washing machine
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s, and
tumble dryer
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Many dry ...
s. A number of these products received awards, primarily in Germany. These include the EB900 Built-in oven and CK494 Glass ceramic hob. In 1995,
Gaggenau Hausgeräte
is a German manufacturer of high-end home appliances. The company was established in 1683 as the Eisenwerke Gaggenau A.G. in the Black Forest region of south-west Germany by German aristocrat Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden.
The company ...
was acquired by Bosch-Semiens Hausgeräte (
BSH Hausgeräte
BSH Hausgeräte GmbH (, stylized as B/S/H/) is the largest manufacturer of home appliances in Europe and one of the leading companies in the sector worldwide. The group stemmed from a joint venture set up in May 1967 between Robert Bosch GmbH (St ...
).
Works
Timothy Jacob Jensen’s best known works include the ''
Bang & Olufsen
Bang & Olufsen (B&O) is a Danish high-end consumer electronics company that designs and manufactures audio products, television sets, and telephones. It was founded in 1925 by Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, who designed a radio to work with alt ...
Beocenter 9000'' (1986),
Bang & Olufsen
Bang & Olufsen (B&O) is a Danish high-end consumer electronics company that designs and manufactures audio products, television sets, and telephones. It was founded in 1925 by Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, who designed a radio to work with alt ...
''Beowatch'' (1993), ''Jabra JX10 Bluetooth headset'' (2005), ''Vertu Aerius Bluetooth headset'' (2006), ''Gaggenau EB900 Built-in oven'' (1993), '' Gaggenau CK494 Glass ceramic hob'' (1993), ''Rosti Mepal Victoria Bowl'' (2008), ''Steinway Lyngdorf Model D Music System'' (2007), ''Toshiba WL768 flat screen television'' (2010), ''Tommerup Kister Diamant 32 Coffin'' (2010), ''Lufthansa First Class Aminety Kit'' (2016), ''Danzka The Spirit'' (2016), ''Phicomm K3 Router'' (2017), ''Classic Watch'' (Model 510), ''JACOB JENSEN Strata Watch 270 and 280'' (2014), ''JACOB JENSEN Smoke Alarm'' (2001), ''Telephone T3'', ''JACOB JENSEN Air Quality Monitor'' (2016), ''JACOB JENSEN Weather station series '' (1999), and others.
File:TommerupKister Diamant32.jpg, Tommerup Kister Diamant 32 Coffin, 2010
File:T3 Phone.jpg, JACOB JENSEN T3 Telephone, 1994
File:GagenauEB900.jpg, Gaggenau
Gaggenau is a town in the district of Rastatt, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located some 8 km northeast of Baden-Baden.
History
Gaggenau was first mentioned in local records in 1243 under the name "Gaggenaw". The present district ...
EB900 stove, 1993
File:Toshiba_748.jpg, Toshiba VL748, 2010
File:Classic510.jpg, JACOB JENSEN Classic 510, 1986
File:Vertu headset.jpg, Vertu Aerius Bluetooth Headset, 2006
File:Vestas_wind_Turbines.png , Vestas wind turbines
File: Aalborg_Jule_Akvavit.png , Aalborg Jule Akvavit
File: 11_Stars_of_Skive.png , 11 Stars of Skive
File: Beocenter_9000.png , Beocenter 9000
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File:Hvid watch.tif
Awards
* IF Award (1990–2018,
Germany
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)
* China Red Star Design Award (2013–2017,
China
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)
* German Design Award (2012–2017,
Germany
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)
* Red Dot Award (1993–2017,
Germany
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)
* Design Plus Award (1988–2016,
Germany
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)
* German Design Award (2012–2018, Germany)
* IDA Awards, (2016,
U.S.
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)
* Plus X Award (2006–2016,
Germany
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)
* Good Design Award (1985–2012,
Japan
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)
* Designer of the Year (2017,
China
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).
Personal life
Timothy Jacob Jensen has two daughters, Toko and Freja.
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See also
* Danish Modern
Danish modern is a style of minimalist furniture and housewares from Denmark associated with the Danish design movement. In the 1920s, Kaare Klint embraced the principles of Bauhaus modernism in furniture design, creating clean, pure lines based ...
* Jørn Utzon
Jørn Oberg Utzon, , Hon. FAIA (; 9 April 191829 November 2008) was a Danish architect. He was most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia, completed in 1973. When it was declared a World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007, Utzo ...
* Raymond Loewy
Raymond Loewy ( , ; November 5, 1893 – July 14, 1986) was a French-born American industrial designer who achieved fame for the magnitude of his design efforts across a variety of industries. He was recognized for this by ''Time'' magazi ...
* Jacob Jensen
* International style (architecture)
References
External links
www.timothyjacobjensen.com
www.oobject.com/category/10-classic-jacob-jensen-gadgets
*
https://timothyjacobjensen.com/timothy-jacob-jensen/
issuu.com/worldofjacobjensen/docs/jacobjensendesign
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Living people
1962 births
Danish industrial designers