Here's a Look Inside Apple's New $200 Photo Book

[CrownVic]

8 years to "design" a book...

Yeah they had to go back and find all the stock photos for the book haha

 

[Porco]

I would buy this for £5 - £10 in a discount bookstore in a heartbeat, looks nice.

I'd think about it at £20 - £30.

at £249 though... nah, you're alright, Apple.

I hope those prepared to pay it enjoy it though.

 

[bunnicula]

Eh... art books are usually expensive. Apple stuff is more expensive than most other stuff. Ergo, Apple Art book is...

Well, it follows. I bought one. It's only money and I am a sucker for art books.

 

[Ramius]

Just want to let you all know:

If you buy this.
You are a loser.​

 

[kdarling]

They developed their own inks and commissioned custom paper designs for the book to more carefully represent the real-world colours of the products and in particular show 'whites' (white product on white page) more accurately.

Apple is a tech company.

If they were really cool, they'd have released this on the iPad and Mac, with color correction etc.

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This is living room table stuff to make Ive feel good. I think he's jealous of Marc Newson, who had designed watches, watchbands, cars, furniture, you name it. I think that's why Apple did the Watch and its bands, has worked on a car, and did custom tables for the new HQ.

Newson even has a $1,000 design book on Taschen.

Just look at whatever Newson has done, and I bet Ive will do one too

 

[tbobmccoy]

This is REAL??? I figured it was a fake news report that somehow got in the page. Ridiculous. Who would buy this?

 

[Stella]

Go on to google images, Dowload Apple images, create your own book ( online if necessary), dedicate one page to Steve jobs. Use $50 for printing costs.. save yourself $150!

 

[ErikGrim]

This is REAL??? I figured it was a fake news report that somehow got in the page. Ridiculous. Who would buy this?

Anyone inspired by good industrial design?

 

[ziggie216]

You got all of that from me asking for examples? That's amazing.

http://www.assouline.com/louis-vuitton-windows.html

And this is only under $1k

 

[desc]

Design and architecture books are expensive. In the book, on the Apple Design Team list, there is a dude named Marc Newson. He has his own book. You can buy it for 750eur
https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/architecture/all/01094/facts.marc_newson_works.htm

Contains all of his works and you can watch him talk about it here:

Cheers!

 

[flyinmac]

Is there a Kindle version?

The PDF version will be available shortly I'm sure.

 

[ziggie216]

Go on to google images, Dowload Apple images, create your own book ( online if necessary), dedicate one page to Steve jobs. Use $50 for printing costs.. save yourself $150!

Just listen to the weight of the paper.

This is like comparing a high school kid turning in an resume on cheap recycled paper vs someone who is using 32lb paper for a business proposal.

 

[flyinmac]

8 years to "design" a book...

It takes time to search the landfills for their discontinued products. Not to mention the time to clean them up and remove all the sludge and corrosion. This was a very expensive project

 

[rcread]

I'm holding out for the "Designed by Apple in California S" that comes out next year.

 

[Stella]

Some people take things too seriously!

That paper is way too heavy for apple... just imagine if they designed laptops in such a way...

Just listen to the weight of the paper.

This is like comparing a high school kid turning in an resume on cheap recycled paper vs someone who is using 32lb paper for a business proposal.

 

[AZ63]

Well, at least now I know what Apple was spending its time on designing instead of updating the iMac, Mac Pro, and Mac Mini. Apparently, they had just if design hours left over to devote to the biggest money makers, the MacBook Pro and iPhone.
Thanks Apple.
Can you please address your other hardware lines now.
Please

 

[A-Sign]

There is already an Apple Design book available which contains way more information and a lovely layout (320 pages with 542 color images). It costs way less than the Apple version (only 10 Euros here).

The links:

https://www.amazon.de/Apple-Design-Ina-Grätz/dp/3775730109/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479426264&sr=8-1&keywords=apple+design

http://www.hatjecantz.de/apple-design-2838-0.html

 

[AZ63]

The 10.2" version has only half as many USB-C ports as the 13".

LOL

 

[shareef777]

That everyone is somehow not ok with Kim Kardashian. But you are wrong about both of those things too.

To each their own, but she's an idiot, and anyone that buys that book is just chugging the kool-aid by the tank load.

 

[nikhsub1]

You clearly don't use maps. Has worked well even for delivery drivers for some time now. The latest version borders on perfection

Perfection? LOLOLOLOLOL. You are right, I don't use it because it is bad. Half of my daughter's soccer team couldn't find a soccer field for a game guess what they all had in common? Yep, another apple map fail. The half that did arrive without issue used google maps or waze. We have instructed the team to never use apple maps. Glad it is perfection for you though

 

[coolfactor]

Regarding the price, I really really wish that MacRumous would not just automatically assume everybody thinks in US dollars. Sure, USD may be the global, universal currency, but we're not all Americans. Just say "$200 US Dollars" instead of simply "$200". It's not $200 for the rest of us.

 

[flyinmac]

Curious about the specifications. It would appear that this product can only display two pages at a time in high resolution mode. Must be old technology.

 

[ErikGrim]

To each their own, but she's an idiot, and anyone that buys that book is just chugging the kool-aid by the tank load.

An "idiot" who somehow made herself worth $150m in the span of a decade.

 

[Heltik]

I can't believe my Apple stock hasn't increased more on the back of this announcement!

 

[Deuce on the Clock]

They should've released it in iBooks