God's way of telling you that you have more money than common sense

It looks like a generic digital P&S to me. Of course, I'm not in that market but even if I were...

Heck, let them eat cake! :)
 
You may know him better as Jonathan Ive - If you own an Apple product, then you own something designed by him.
 
Yeah, think he's pretty overrated as a designer. I find it funny him being given credit for all of Apple's design in recent years, when the most defining aspect of Apple's design has been their ability to effectively miniaturise everything. Ive's clean lines and minimalist designs while nice on the eye, are hardly groundbreaking, imo.

In any case, all this is for a good cause, so hopefully it sells for a small fortune :)
 
Groundbreaking...maybe not, but let's remember what computers looked like before the iMac came out...
 
jsrockit said:
Groundbreaking...maybe not, but let's remember what computers looked like before the iMac came out...
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There are plenty of beautiful examples of pre-Intel 8086 computers. They were, for the better part, designed remarkably well with a great deal of thoughtfulness within the constraints of current technology for their purpose.
 
Murchu said:
Yeah, think he's pretty overrated as a designer. I find it funny him being given credit for all of Apple's design in recent years, when the most defining aspect of Apple's design has been their ability to effectively miniaturise everything. Ive's clean lines and minimalist designs while nice on the eye, are hardly groundbreaking, imo.

In any case, all this is for a good cause, so hopefully it sells for a small fortune :)
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Funny, the number of people who haven't heard of Ive.
Funnier, still, the number who don't credit him.

Can you name a 'better' current industrial designer? What company makes better-designed products than Apple? The only slight that might be attributed to Ive is that his designs owe a lot to Braun. But, everyone is inspired by someone or some thing. Good, that Ive had the good sense to choose someone worth emulating.

And, no, the most defining aspect of Apple's design is NOT miniaturization.

I'm not sure what you mean by "not groundbreaking." What IS groundbreaking, and who does it in a practical sense? It's actually easier to design 'revolutionary-looking' stuff than it is to make beautiful, simple, and usable stuff. Apple was a relatively small company not so long ago. And, now, everything everybody else produces is essentially a copy of an Apple product.

That all said, this one-off Leica is quite stupid.
 
Major Tom said:
There are plenty of beautiful examples of pre-Intel 8086 computers. They were, for the better part, designed remarkably well with a great deal of thoughtfulness within the constraints of current technology for their purpose.
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True, I guess I meant just prior to the iMac.
 
So much about the "genius" of Ive...

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Hmmm, so many being hard on someone borrowing from the past for design inspiration when so many of us borrow from the past in our photography...
 
Bille said:
So much about the "genius" of Ive...
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Genius isn't being the first with an idea, sometimes people get influenced by great design and then refine and redefine.
Anyone that is influenced by Dieter Rams and then takse that and makes new products of a similar beauty can't be bad.
The string of Apple copy-cats also just look at what phones and tablets looked like pre 2007 nothing wrong with copying a good idea or form.
If you go to the design museum in London you will see some of his designs, some of his idea's have been widely copied too.

Dieter Rams copied others too; in fact most originality is undetected plagiarism.

BTW the calculator app at the bottom was designed by Scott Forstall.
 
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