Jasper Morrison was born in London in 1959. He graduated in Design from Kingston Polytechnic in 1982. Then he attended the Royal College of Art for postgraduate studies, which included a year at Berlin’s HdK art school.

Upon graduation Jasper set up his Office for Design in London in 1986. Jasper’s earliest designs were produced by Aram and SCP in London, Neotu in Paris, FSB in Germany, and Cappellini in Italy. In 1989, he began a collaboration with Vitra. In 1994 Jasper began a consultancy with Üstra, the Hanover transport authority. Further collaborations began in this period with projects for the Italian companies Alessi, Flos and Magis, and the German porcelain manufacturer Rosenthal. In the 2000s Jasper worked on a project for Rowenta and Samsung.

He has had solo shows in Tokyo at Axis Gallery, Yamagiwa and HH Style. In 2015, the retrospective exhibition entitled Thingness opened the Grand-Hornu, in Belgium and, after several international stops, was presented at the Tate Modern. Among many other exhibitions, he presented Au Musée at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs Bordeaux and curated Danish Design, I Like It at the Copenhagen Design Museum. Jasper Morrison is the author of several books published by Lars Müller, including the monographs Everything But The Walls and A Book of Things

Jasper Morrison has been a Royal Designer for Industry since 2001.