Same attitude that so many Apple consumers have about their favourite company. The stigma really is true and it starts from within the company.
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Former Apple Design Chief Jony Ive Shares His 12 Favorite Tools of the Trade
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Thank you for that. I laughed. I have all 12 episodes buried on my NAS at home somewhere and I shall now dig them out and binge.
Can confirm.
It's a list of his personal tools of the trade. Not a list of tools needed for Apple products.
The way I abuse measuring tapes, I can buy a lifetime’s worth for $530 and be just fine.
The torque wrench would be very useful to me, but I can get a decent one cheaper.
I mean, it’s Hermes. I feel like Hermes is a bit form over function (and expensive for what you get), but I could see the advantage of having a tape measure with great in hand feel, and high quality leather could contribute to that in hand feel.
Despite knowing very little about tool brands, I know enough about tools to know that someone would point out (and mock) his use of Snap-On!
It's a list of tools, what Apple products were you expecting? Their new monstrosity of a self-repair toolkit?
This guy clearly has expensive taste in just tools. probably other things too.
No wonder Macs are so Expensive.
No wonder Macs are so Expensive.
One of his Hermes sweaters has a square cut out ?
As someone who’s a bit of a fountain pen aficionado and who’s used jeweler’s loupes, I’m curious about these vintage ones from his collection more than I necessarily am about the contemporary products he uses.
The protractor and micrometer are certainly precision instruments, and you typically get more precision with more expensive instruments, so those prices don’t seem too far fetched to me. But that audio tonearm is the thing that makes me gawk more than anything else (also, I’m a little surprised he’s a record guy, and not one of these guys chasing high end reel to reel).
The protractor and micrometer are certainly precision instruments, and you typically get more precision with more expensive instruments, so those prices don’t seem too far fetched to me. But that audio tonearm is the thing that makes me gawk more than anything else (also, I’m a little surprised he’s a record guy, and not one of these guys chasing high end reel to reel).
I'm glad to see Ive gone from Apple.
He may have had a hand in some great designs. But I really resent his elevation of form over function to the point that it makes computers harder to use.
EG:
I've used SD cards a lot in my work for years. Why on earth put SD card slots on a computer if you are going to put them in the least accessible place?
Same for headphone jacks.
I'll tell you why.
So you can stand 6 feet from the computer and look at it sitting on a nice Danish Modern desk set and admire how elegant it looks next to the rest of your Eames collection.
The newer Macbook Pros are a great example of a balance between form and function.
SD card slots! Different ports next to each other!
It still looks clean and elegant from the normal angle you use it from!
Who cares how cluttered the sides look?
He may have had a hand in some great designs. But I really resent his elevation of form over function to the point that it makes computers harder to use.
EG:
I've used SD cards a lot in my work for years. Why on earth put SD card slots on a computer if you are going to put them in the least accessible place?
Same for headphone jacks.
I'll tell you why.
So you can stand 6 feet from the computer and look at it sitting on a nice Danish Modern desk set and admire how elegant it looks next to the rest of your Eames collection.
The newer Macbook Pros are a great example of a balance between form and function.
SD card slots! Different ports next to each other!
It still looks clean and elegant from the normal angle you use it from!
Who cares how cluttered the sides look?
I dunno. When it comes to SD cards, if you’re swapping them around a lot, that’s one thing. But, most of the time I’m using SD cards, I stick them into a computer for a bit, do something on them, then stick them in a device. And I usually have to use an external reader, anyway, as the SD card slot on my current laptop is only SDHC (and so many of the cards I end up using are SDXC). I’d reckon that my experience isn’t far from the norm, SD cards just aren’t something most people swap daily (let alone multiple times daily). If it’s a big enough issue, you could always use a USB SD reader with a long USB cable.
It's not. Stanley is in imperial units, and the Hermes one is in metric. I've been trying to find a good metric tape for a while, and can't (meaning Lowes and Home Depot don't carry them, and the only one I liked off Amazon US wasn't even accurate). Not that I'm about to spend $530 on one.The Hermes tape measure is just a leather wrapped Stanley. You can get it for $10 on Amazon:
Powerlock Tape Rule, 1/4"" x 10ft, Plastic Case, Chrome, 1/16"" Graduation, Sold as 1 Each
Powerlock Tape Rule, 1/4"" x 10ft, Plastic Case, Chrome, 1/16"" Graduation, Sold as 1 Eachwww.amazon.com
And for only $49 you can have all of these shipped to you on a rental basis in massive hard-sided suitcases!
Sorry, couldn’t resist!
Sorry, couldn’t resist!
We've got plenty over here on this side of the Atlantic
What kind of list is this? Generally, you get whatever tool you need for your job… giving someone a list of things you use for job, when your a designer… is a weird thing to do… generally designing something is very dependent on industry… I worked as a fabric engineer for a while and i carried a thread counter with me at all times, for my job it was extremely important… not sure how often designers would need such a thing…
This is the guy who designs rectangles for a living.