Comments for Super Normal exhibition twentytwentyone, London

Comment on twentytwentyone’s blog for Super Normal by Gonçalo Novais

Gonçalo Novais — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:12:56 +0000

Hi i want to talk with Jasper Morrison, I am a student of design from Portugal and we are doing a work about the supernormal object. My question is a button can be a supernormal object? I have been reading all the comments thanks for that it helped me a lot but I really don`t understand for sure what is the supernormal object i know that is a object from the past or not but it´s an object that exists already in our day to day lifes.

I hope you can read this

Thanks

Comment on Dialogue: Jasper and Naoto by Royal College of Art (RCA): Linkages with NID & Indian Design: Major Influences (Part 2/3) « Design for India

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:27:21 +0000

[...] Jasper Morrison – Furniture Designer visited NID very briefly and I spent one evening with him at Ahmedabad over dinner at a friends home. He is one of the influential young minds that RCA has produced and his influence is very strong through his work as well as his exhibitions such as “Super Normal” which was curated with Naoto Fukasawa. Super Normal at Vitra 2008: Jasper and Naoto Dialogue: [...]

Comment on Exhibition by When Design Becomes Philosophy | Cities x Design

When Design Becomes Philosophy | Cities x Design — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:07:09 +0000

[...] to make design pieces that worked as social commentaries. His strongest design influence is the “Super Normal” as practiced by Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa: a type of design thinking that emphasizes less [...]

Comment on Super Normal Milan by Federica, Italy

Federica, Italy — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:01:06 +0000

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Comment on twentytwentyone’s blog for Super Normal by Kamil Szczesny

Kamil Szczesny — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:01:46 +0000

Super Normal Architecture?

I read about Super Normal half year ago, I also saw photo relation from exhibition on twentytwentyone’s blog and I still can’t stop thinking about the Super Normal “theory”. I’m studying architecture but industrial design is my interest. After half-year observations, reading articles and books I think that there is similarity between designing Super Normal industrial forms and designing architecture. I wonder If there is Super Normal… Architecture? I think that minimalism is too wide-spread definition of architecture. Nowadays minimalism has many faces. We say ”minimalistic” about glossy, showy and “glamour” architecture, but also about pure, ascetic, simple and quiet buildings. In this way in future everything will be minimalistic. Maybe Super Normal theory is the answer about rational and pure designing (also architecture)?

Comment on twentytwentyone’s blog for Super Normal by Lenny

Lenny — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:29:35 +0000

Even if the last comment is already very old I want to add something, maybe it will be read. I didn’t see the exhibition as I got to know about it only today, but the concept is great because it adresses the danger of design going in a fundamentally wrong direction. I think it’s not what Super Normal things do but what they don’t do, while still being visually attractive archetypes and points of departure for new designs. For me, good design doesn’t force the user (or viewer) to think about the fact that an object has been designed. There are many (in my opinion mediocre or even bad) designers who rely very heavily on the visual gimmicks Mr. Morrison mentioned. For example there is a piano by Luigi Colani which force-feeds the word DESIGN into one’s mind, though only few people would spontaneously think of it as beautiful or practical. I think good design has take part in a continuous stream of cultural, technological and esthetical evolution instead of creating many failed revolutions which are mostly dead ends. If one has to break rules to make an object better, then there is no reason not to do it, because a good object will feel natural to the person who uses it. The Olivetti Valentine typewriter, for example, has good reasons for each and every part of its design that differs from the way typewriters looked before.

Comment on twentytwentyone’s blog for Super Normal by Jasper Morrison

Jasper Morrison — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:40:45 +0000

Why do you say ‘only become successful when they are put in another context’? A Super Normal thing is Super Normal in any context, and is not dependent on people being aware of it’s being Super Normal. Super Normal is above all an observation or a ‘noticing’ that certain objects which may not have been designed by ‘designers’ perform better than many which have. Learning from those objects is a way to raise the quality of our designs.

Comment on Super Normal Philosophy by Wabi-Sabi

Wabi-Sabi — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:52:23 +0000

[...] about the the undefinable allure of simplicity and the understated in design, which he calls Supernormal. Got me thinking a lot about where I am as a musician, designer (whatever), and struck a chord with [...]

Comment on twentytwentyone’s blog for Super Normal by Silvia

Silvia — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:08:35 +0000

Hi there. I find this concept truly fascinating but I’m not quite sure i understand what one’s approach as a designer can be to this theory. I can see how the appreciation of a simple object or extra qualities on these can make them “super normal” but they only become successful when they are put in another context and used for other actions… which kind of defeats the purpose. So i want to ask from a designer’s point of view: how can it be applied when designing new products? or how can you show someone that a product is “super normal” without telling them?

Thanks
Silvia

Comment on Super Normal Philosophy by Adam Paulk

Adam Paulk — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:58:14 +0000

The wine glass is transparent, I can see right through it. But do I know who blew the glass? The creator knows this. He made that glass, it is special to the only one that matters, the creator himself. If I put wine in that glass it must be cleaned, so it can be transparent yet again. Added design makes it tougher to clean. The glass is perfect without added design. Cleanliness is next to Godliness.