never give up... you never know, you could be in an olympics cross-Country ski race, in sixth place, dead last, and because of a crash you end up earning the bronze medal... (deserving it no, but third place is bronze medal!)
They were all advanced design for their times. The fact that none were ever produced clearly demonstrates that the design, while it may be dazzling or attractive, needs to be subservient to the function. The same could be said for Mr. Ive's design work. Eye-catching but not user friendly. True, Apple phones, pads, and laptops look nice. But, if given a choice, I can accept a clunky exterior design in favor of stuff that works internally. I do not purchase my devices for their appearance. The way they make my life easier and/or more productive is far more important.
That said...is is pleasant to have a good looking exterior.
We've covered this before, I think. There's no hint in your comment that you are aware of Jony Ive's primary asset. That is, he designs for touch, the tactile sense, as much or more than he does for the eye.
I have come to agree with you about iOS 7, by the way, which is entirely visual and stripped of tactility, and I think it's why it doesn't work as well as iOS 6 did for you or for me. I can't believe Ive had anything to do with the design of that software, but who's to know?
Back to Ive's strong point, his father is a silversmith, and I think he draws his sense of texture and surface from that trade. Silver is our most tactile metal—soft, warm, takes a rounded form like nothing else. Jony seems to have carried his father's finger sense into the range of materials that Apple uses, from aluminum to glass to stainless to plastic, and exploited their strengths with a self-consciousness that we rarely have seen in design, and have never seen in consumer product design.
So I think we sell him short when we speak of his work as good looking. That misses all the poetry of what he's doing in metal and mechanism. Or eroticism, to be frank about it. Also by the way, I think it would be a good idea to read Leander's book before I go into this sort of stuff again.
They were all advanced design for their times. The fact that none were ever produced...
Most of them were produced, the Raleigh dragster and chopper bicycles were every bit as iconic in Australia and the UK as Schwinn in the US and decades ahead of the west coast chopper range.
Strange that he's got credit for the Raleigh Chopper here. The team that made the chopper was led by Alan Oakley and it was also Oakley's original design. I'm curious to see if they worked together on it. Never heard his name in connection with it before.
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Yeah, you gotta hit mute before laughing at the people who can’t find their Menu Bar.
We've covered this before, I think. There's no hint in your comment that you are aware of Jony Ive's primary asset. That is, he designs for touch, the tactile sense, as much or more than he does for the eye.
I have come to agree with you about iOS 7, by the way, which is entirely visual and stripped of tactility, and I think it's why it doesn't work as well as iOS 6 did for you or for me. I can't believe Ive had anything to do with the design of that software, but who's to know?
Back to Ive's strong point, his father is a silversmith, and I think he draws his sense of texture and surface from that trade. Silver is our most tactile metal—soft, warm, takes a rounded form like nothing else. Jony seems to have carried his father's finger sense into the range of materials that Apple uses, from aluminum to glass to stainless to plastic, and exploited their strengths with a self-consciousness that we rarely have seen in design, and have never seen in consumer product design.
So I think we sell him short when we speak of his work as good looking. That misses all the poetry of what he's doing in metal and mechanism. Or eroticism, to be frank about it. Also by the way, I think it would be a good idea to read Leander's book before I go into this sort of stuff again.
They were all advanced design for their times. The fact that none were ever produced...
Most of them were produced, the Raleigh dragster and chopper bicycles were every bit as iconic in Australia and the UK as Schwinn in the US and decades ahead of the west coast chopper range.