Jonathan Ive - Apple's Design Magician

conq writes "BusinessWeek takes an in-depth look at the man behind the Apple magic. The article features a slideshow with all his designs (including one before he was with Apple)." From the article: "During an internship with design consultancy Roberts Weaver Group, he created a pen that had a ball and clip mechanism on top, for no purpose other than to give the owner something to fiddle with. 'It immediately became the owner's prize possession, something you always wanted to play with,' recalls Grinyer, a Roberts Weaver staffer at the time. 'We began to call it having Jony-ness, an extra something that would tap into the product's underlying emotion.'"

I can relate..

[vancondo]

"During an internship with design consultancy Roberts Weaver Group, he created a pen that had a ball and clip mechanism on top, for no purpose other than to give the owner something to fiddle with."

Sometimes I fiddle with my balls too, does that mean I have the same sort of creative energy?

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Re:Oh, but as to the pen...

[HatchedEggs]

If I get a +5 informative for that post then some people are definitely a bit too bored at work.

btw, no such luck finding the pen so far.

Re:Oh, but as to the pen...

[gEvil (beta)]

Now I have to go do a search on it...

Here's a tip for you. Don't do a GIS for "ball clip." :-x

Re:Why yes, yes I can..

[Anonymous Coward]

The only thing more pathetic than a PC user is a PC user trying to be a Mac user. We have a name for you people: switcheurs.

There's a good reason for your vexation at the iMac's uncluttered all-in-one design: You don't speak its language. Remember that the Mac was designed by artists [atspace.com], for artists [atspace.com], be they poets [atspace.com], musicians [atspace.com], or avant-garde mathematicians [atspace.com]. A shiny new Mac can introduce your frathouse hovel to a modicum of good taste, but it can't make Mac users out of dweebs [atspace.com] and squares [atspace.com] like you.

So don't force what doesn't come naturally. You'll be much happier if you stick to an OS that matches your personality. And you'll be doing the rest of us a favor, too; you leave Macs to Mac users, and we'll leave beige to you.

Re:Business Week Dufuses

[tb3]

Bah, that's nothing, how about this gem?

The Newton software became known for being far ahead of its time--and for disastrously mediocre voice-recognition software.

No kidding! I screamed myself hoarse at my Newton, but it never listened.

Re:Why yes, yes I can..

[DysenteryInTheRanks]

We have a name for you people: switcheurs.

My god you're good.

I hope the rest of you trolls out there are paying attention to this Arrogant Mac Guy. He really knows his stuff.

Read the parent post. No, really. It's totally worth it. Take a minute. I'll wait.

Done? Good. See how you sort of want to laugh out loud, but how you also just threw up a little bit in your mouth? See how you can't tell if he's serious, or trying to be funny; whether he's mocking arrogant Mac users or IS an arrogant Mac user?

Didn't you sort of feel like going to the Apple store and physically murdering one of those smug little Genius Bartenders? And then buying an iBook for $8000? THAT'S a good troll.

This guy, he is elevating the Slashdot troll from common verbal diarrhea to subliminal political treatise. He's breeding a little revolution.

I've been watching him. This thing has evolved. He's been honing it, polishing, like a fine little gem. He has posted something similar about 437 times, and no two are exactly the same. It is the snowflake of trolls.

It's not even a troll. It's a fauxtroll. A trollody. A trollsterpiece.

Arrogant Mac Guy. Awesome. Keep it up. Or cut it out. I love to hate you and hate to love you.

And I need a Sprite.

Re:Now I know his name

[Ashen]

I don't know, I would say that using the description "Post-Industrial Elegance" is a kind of faggotry in it's own right.

Re:Why yes, yes I can..

[mcmonkey]

By tucking the electronic guts of the Mac right behind the LCD display, Ive's team essentially made the PC disappear. Can someone explain why this won't be the future of PC design for anyone other than gamers--or why the rest of the industry hasn't followed suit yet?

Perhaps not the rest of the industry didn't follow, but don't overlook these triumphs of industrial design [thejournal.com].

I had the pleasure of remotely supporting a half dozen of these fine machines. The only thing that held me together was my dream of the day they would be retired, and I could take one out and go 'Office Space' on its ass.

Re:I can relate..

[rampant mac]

"Sometimes I fiddle with my balls too, does that mean I have the same sort of creative energy?"

Rappers play with their balls all the time as well, and "some" people consider them talented and creative. You're golden, mang.

What the blank space on the iMac is for

[dunsurfin]

There is a handy use for the blank space on the iMac: Perfect for post-it notes. Works well for me...