Jony Ive explains design ideas, says he’ll stick around at Apple

by Christian Zibreg on May 24, 2012

Apple’s design head Jonathan Ive certainly has a busy schedule. In between enjoying healthy meals at Apple’s cafeteria, working out in a gym and conceiving that non-TV TV in his secret design bunker at 1 Infinite Loop, he found time to fly to Britain earlier this week to receive a knighthood in honor of his contributions to industrial design.

He also sat for a little one-on-one with The Daily Telegraph’s Shane Richmond.

And today, BBC Radio 4 is treating us to a four-minute audio interview with London-born, softly spoken chief of industrial design and vice president at Apple.

Despite concerns that he might feel homesick, Ive has every intention to stick around at Apple and continue churning out great stuff (as he previously said that the best is yet to come)… Read More

 

New iPhone concept looks surprisingly realistic

by Cody on May 23, 2012

There’s been no shortage of iPhone mockups this year. Graphic designers are constantly releasing renderings of what they think Apple’s next smartphone should look like. Heck, we’ve even seen a fair amount of video concepts.

But while a number of these mockups tend to border on fantasy, this new design focuses on realism. iTopnews.de‘s creative director Toby Kick brings his vision for the new iPhone to life using only the most feasible of features… Read More

 

Video: Princess Royal knighting Sir Jonathan Ive at Buckingham Palace

by Christian Zibreg on May 23, 2012

Soft-spoken and shy, design guru Jonathan Ive, one of the key figures at Apple of California responsible for the striking design of iPhones, iPods, iPads, Macs and many other Apple products, flew to his native homeland of Britain to officially receive a knighthood in honor of his contributions to industrial design.

As Cody told you, he sat down for a rare one-on-one interview with The Daily Telegraph’s Shane Richmond, hinting that best work is underway now.

As for the knighthood ceremony, we have a video for your viewing pleasure… Read More

 

Apple’s design guru Jony Ive says best is yet to come

by Cody on May 23, 2012

TheNextWeb points to a new piece in The Telegraph this morning, which features a lengthy interview with Jony Ive. The publication caught up with Apple’s design guru during his recent trip to the UK to receive an honorary knighthood.

The Cupertino company’s Senior Vice President of Industrial Design discussed a number of topics with the paper throughout the course of the interview, but a couple of his comments really stood out… Read More

 

No, lawyers didn’t design Galaxy S III, Samsung design boss says

by Christian Zibreg on May 22, 2012

When Samsung introduced its third-generation Galaxy S smartphone earlier this month, folks immediately took to Twitter, opining how the handset was “designed by lawyers” in a nod at Samsung’s ongoing legal feud with Apple over alleged copying of the iPhone’s hardware design and software features.

Instead, the phone that was “inspired by nature” and “designed for humans”, as the tagline has it, fits in Samsung’s five-year redesign plan and went through hundreds of iterations before they settled on a final design…. Read More

 

Ferrari CEO had sit-down meetings with Apple’s boss and heads of Google

by Christian Zibreg on Apr 25, 2012

Don’t hit the comments yet, this is nothing like the false Valve rumor. A surprising report straight from Ferrari’s website has it that Apple CEO Tim Cook along with heads of Google sat down for a two-hour chat with Ferrari CEO Luca di Montezemolo.

Remarking Cooks’ “openness and availability”, the car maker wrote that the sit-down meeting occurred during di Montezemolo’s trip to Silicon Valley last week, where he also gave a speech at Stanford University.

What did the two men talk about if not world-class industrial design and their common penchant for creating great products with the utmost attention to detail?

Ferarri wouldn’t reveal the agenda of the two-hour face-to-face meeting with Cook, but they did state the obvious – that the car maker and the iPhone maker share the same “maniacal attention to technology, but also to design”… Read More

 

Student behind awesome logo tribute to Steve Jobs lands Coke ad gig

by Christian Zibreg on Apr 19, 2012

The name Jonathan Mak Long may not mean much to you, but you’ve probably familiar with the above image he put together shortly after Steve Jobs passed on October 5 of last year.

The unique tribute to Apple’s late CEO cleverly combines the Apple logo with Jobs’ familiar silhouette. The image went viral, earning the young Hong Kong student of design Internet fame and recognition.

Matter of fact, his recognition was so global that he surfaced on the radar of advertising agency Ogilvy China, which contracted him to design Coca Cola’s new social campaign… Read More

 

Apple’s design guru Jony Ive shortlisted as a British Visionary Innovator

by Christian Zibreg on Apr 18, 2012

It’s nominations time for Apple today. First we learned that Time magazine included Apple CEO Tim Cook on its annual list of 100 Most Influential People in the world and now a word has reached us that the company’s design guru Jonathan Ive has been nominated for the prestigious British Visionary Innovator award by the UK’s Intellectual Property Office.

The competition aims to celebrate innovators who earned fame by developing innovative products, services or designs, in in celebration of World Intellectual Property Day 2012… Read More

 

Confirmed: French designer Philippe Starck working on Apple Store design

by Sebastien on Apr 13, 2012

The Applesphere is going crazy this morning after French designer Philippe Starck revealed in an interview with Le Figaro that he’s been working on a revolutionary project with Apple, a project that should see light of the day in 8 months.

The first thing that comes to mind of course is the Apple TV set that has been feeding the rumor mill for a few months now. I believe everyone has been reading too much into Starck’s interview, and we actually got a confirmation earlier today that he is not working on designing a product for Apple.

So if he’s not designing the next iPhone or the Apple TV set, what relationship does Philippe Starck have with Apple? Read More

 

Samsung designer on ripping off the iPhone: “The Galaxy is original from the beginning”

by Christian Zibreg on Mar 23, 2012

One could easily opine there are only so many ways to design a tablet or a smartphone. The argument has its merits and isn’t far from truth. With today’s mobile gadgets increasingly becoming basically a piece of glass framed by a bezel of sorts, the question of who’s copying who gets muddied.

As you know, Apple filed the first in a series of “look-and-feel” lawsuits against Samsung in April 2011 over the design of the iPhone and iPad, forcing the South Korean consumer electronics conglomerate to fire back with infringement allegations of its own.

As both companies remain entangled in a complicated web of lawsuits in courts around the world, Samsung Mobile’s vice president of design Lee Min-hyuk has gone on the record to say he did not rip off the iPhone when designing the original Galaxy S smartphone… Read More

 
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