JACOB JENSEN DESIGN

JACOB JENSEN DESIGN
Curriculum Vitae
Timothy Jacob Jensen, Industrial Designer
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)
Has designed products and developed survival strategies and product planning for Danish and
foreign companies, including Bang & Olufsen, Bell Xpress, Boligselskabernes Landsforening,
Brüel & Kjær, Gaggenau, GN A/S, Heta A/S, J.O. Madsen, Kirk, LASAT, LG Electronics, lifa design,
Matsushita, NEG-Micon, Nilfisk, Nordlux, Nordisk Film, Nordplan, The Danish Social Democratic
Party, Steinway Lyngdorf - Steinway & Sons, Stentofon, S. Weisz, F.A. Thiele/ Danish Eyewear,
Vertu, Volvo Car Corporation, Wolf, XO Care et al.
Timothy Jacob Jensen’s designs have been exhibited at; Musée des Art Decoratifs, Paris 1990;
Louisiana, Vedbæk 1990; Musée d’Art Moderne, Nice 1990; Museum für Angewandte Kunst,
Vienna 1990; The Danish Museum of Art and Design, Copenhagen 1992; separate travelling
exhibition in Copenhagen, Skive, Aarhus, Horsens, Marseille, Paris and Sønderborg 1993-1994,
Groningen, The Netherlands 1995; The Chicago Athenaeum USA 1996; Kalmar Konstmuseum,
Sweden 1997; Inno Town; Ålesund 2000, travelling exhibition, Denmark 2001, Museum ”Het
Kleine Veenloo” (Jacob Jensen Design), The Netherlands 2005, SNYK Skive New Museum of Art
“Generations – Jacob Jensen Design”, Skive 2007.
Represented, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Die Neue Sammlung, Munich; The
Danish Museum of Art and Design’s permanent collection, Copenhagen. Furthermore, Timothy
Jacob Jensen has been portrayed for the portrait gallery of the National Historic Museum of
Denmark

JACOB JENSEN DESIGN
Has as Director and Chief Designer for Jacob Jensen Design together with clients, received the
following awards and recognitions; ND Norsk Design, Oslo 1990 og 1991 (Stentofon); IF Gute
Industrie Forum, Hannover 1990, 1991, 1996, 1997 og 2000 (Bang & Olufsen, Stentofon,
Gaggenau and NEG-Micon); Good Design, Osaka, Japan 1990 (Bang & Olufsen); ID Classic
Industrial Design, Copenhagen 1990 (Bang & Olufsen); ID Industrial Design 1992 og 1996 (Brüel &
Kjær and J.O. Madsen); Red Dot – Design Innovation, Essen 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2002 og 2006
(Gaggenau, NEG-Micon, Bell Xpress, S. Weisz); Design Auswahl, Design Center, Stuttgart 1994
(Gaggenau); Innovation Design nr. 1, Dusseldorf 1994 og 1995 (Gaggenau); Der Feinschmecker,
Hamburg 1996 (Gaggenau); Unidanmark Foundation Award 2000, Good Design, Chicago, USA
2002 (Gaggenau), Plus X Award, Dusseldorf 2006 (Bell Xpress, GN A/S), Nominated for the Design
Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2007 (S. Weisz), The Danish Design Prize 2007 (XO
Care). (In a separate document there is a complete list with more than 100 exhibitions, awards,
etc.)
E-mail: hq@jacobjensen.com
Address: Jacob Jensen Design, Hejlskovvej 104, DK. - 7840 Hoejslev.