No, that one in the middle is Herman Munster. And that one on the right is Yul Brynner. No, not Miss Marple either. Wait, is that Janeane Garofalo? Whatever. I mean the bald guy who is not Telly Savalas.
Do you ever stop to realise that another human being carefully conceived and designed every object you will touch today? It’s a pretty amazing thought, and after Objectified, you’ll be thinking it more often.
The guys behind forthcoming gadget design doc Objectified recently filmed Apple Chief Designer Jonthan Ive at work in his secret Cupertino lair. I am now even more excited for this movie.
In an otherwise surprise-free keynote today, one without booms or “one more thing”s, one bit of news stood out: White made a quiet return to the iPod family. Sure, it never fully left Apple—remaining the default colour for earbuds, plugs, power bricks, AirPort products and the cheapest MacBooks—but we were finally getting used to a world without white iPods. Does this mean after nine short months put out to the pastures, white is already retro-cool again?
Most of you probably know Jonathan Ive even if you don’t recognise the name—he’s Apple’s head of design (otherwise known as the company’s Senior Vice President of Industrial Design). And he’s chiefly credited for designs of the iMac, iPod and iPhone. In an interview with The Independent, he shared some of his philosophies on designing for Apple, and just how Apple “does it.”
CNNMoney/Fortune has a story out saying that Eve, the female character to stand opposite Wall-E in the movie of the same name, was designed in part by Apple lead designer Jonathan Ive. The robot design is kinda cool, in that it reminds me of the most recent incarnation of Marvin the Paranoid Android, but the real story to be told is of Ive’s day spent with the Pixar guys working on Eve.
