Former Apple Design Chief Jony Ive Shares His 12 Favorite Tools of the Trade

[Mac_MD-PhD]

I've spent some time on construction sites and I can only imagine the look on everyone's face if I had pulled out a frickin Hermes tape measure lol

Lmao, I would pay to watch this exact scenario.

 

[jlc1978]

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.

I have one like the BMI VISO Window Tape Measure, but with a different name. Very nice, the window makes interior measures easy as well as it does circular drawing.

 

[frogslapper]

He keeps all of these tools in a Douche™ Bag, also from Ive's personal collection.

 

[wolfboy]

Now we know where the Air Tag design was inspired from

 

[SSDGUY]

$530 for a pocket measuring tape? No wonder the folks at Apple have no problem charging $400-$1000 for a monitor stand. The real world generally escapes them.

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

I knew the comments would be good... but not this good.

 

[macintologist]

I would love to watch a documentary or docudrama that goes into great depth on the early years of Jony Ive through the iPhone and iPad because I feel like after that point he kind of went off the deep end, but I want to know more about what the design process was like at Apple in the late 90s.

 

[hybrid_x]

A Hermès measuring tape and a platinum-plated eraser?

If you ever had any doubt that Ive is a completely self-absorbed designer out of touch with the realities of the average person, this is it.

I had little respect for him already. I have even less than that now.

 

[hybrid_x]

Tool #11 - Pretension

I'm pretty sure Jony Ive himself is "Tool #11"

 

[elvisimprsntr]

Sir Jony Ive isn't a well prepared survivalist.



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1.5 5. Dental Floss
1.6 6. Paper Clips
1.7 7. Tin Cans
1.8 8. Salt
1.9 9. Bleach
1.10 10. Coffee Filters

 

[brucewayne]

Imagine rolling out your $530 tape measure and seeing that sweet Stanley logo.

 

[rumplestiltskin]

Squint...squint...what moron designed these tiny, low-contrast fonts and interface??? Oh, wait...that was me.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

I'll admit the Torque Wrench, Wiha wrenches, and a decent mic/angle set are worth the $. But the rest of this stuff just seems decorative.

 

[gecko579]

Tool #11 - Pretension

With a list like this, Tool #11: Jony Ive

 

[Expos of 1969]

Christ he looks my dad reading the Drudge while taking a morning dump.
Or like a Surrey thug gone legit later in life.

You and your dad would be well advised to buy some tools so you can put the door back on your bathroom or you should stop shaving in there when he is on the toilet.

 

[InnSuu]

Jony forgot himself. Definitely one the bigger tools of the trade.

 

[InnSuu]

With a list like this, Tool #11: Jony Ive

You pipped me to it! And did it better...

 

[SSDGUY]

He was so obsessed with the beauty and the joy of the machines and tools that he sometimes forgot to shave, shower, or even get dressed before showing up to a meeting two hours late.

And forgot to keep the mag charger.

 

[ArrayDecay]

Jonny Ive is the Elon Musk of Apple.

 

[elvisimprsntr]

Sir Jony looks like a down and out Jason Statham

 

[vegetassj4]

They forgot: Bathrobe, Gray. $42.23 WalMart.com

 

[Eso]

How does a human become like this?

 

[mtnr]

The next time someone ask me "what do you mean when you say 'bougie'?"

I will direct them to this list.

This is hilarious, no wonder he spent a bunch of time at Apple designing a Leica camera...the jewelry of the camera world. I'm surprised they haven't made him an executive. They are cut of the same cloth. Glad he's gone and I get to have a Macbook with an SD card reader again.

 

[SSDGUY]

The next time someone ask me "what do you mean when you say 'bougie'?"

I will direct them to this list.

This is hilarious, no wonder he spent a bunch of time at Apple designing a Leica camera...the jewelry of the camera world. I'm surprised they haven't made him an executive. They are cut of the same cloth. Glad he's gone and I get to have a Macbook with an SD card reader again.

Yup. It seems as time went on, his form beat up his function

 

[fakestrawberryflavor]

Jokes on him, I just got a protractor from the dollar store