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Industrial Designer Marc Newson to Join Apple Under Jony Ive

Not sure if this will work.

A sleek guy like Philippe Starck matches Apple's aesthetics more than chunky Marc Newsom.
 
Anyone else think that for an iWatch that's apparently being announced next week, and this guys hiring now, that it's leaving it a little too late for him to have an influence on this product? I'd be amazed if it's coming out soon, but 3 days and we shall see.
 
sshambles said:
Anyone else think that for an iWatch that's apparently being announced next week, and this guys hiring now, that it's leaving it a little too late for him to have an influence on this product? I'd be amazed if it's coming out soon, but 3 days and we shall see.
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According to Vanity Fair, who leaked this story, he's been working at Apple for a while now. My guess is the timing of the leak was intentional.
 
Vanity Fair, Burberry, sensual curves. September 9th is gonna be a doozy!
 
mdelvecchio said:
Oh dear lord. Most people have never heard of this guy and I doubt you had before now either.

But I like how you've bumped the DOOOOMED! prediction timeline to the better part of a decade -- hedge your bet, a little.
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Marc Newson, are you kidding? Everyone who has ever been interested in design, even as a passing fancy, has heard of him.

And he's great. Really great. Insanely great.
 
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Newson's idea of a good car design. Looks like something out of a cartoon.

This guy is good for one thing: catering to eccentric design circles in a purely abstract sense. "Oh he's so cutting edge" "His work is so unique, he's a genius."

While that may be true while you are sipping on overpriced wine at an art gallery filled with statues of ceramic rabbits, his design just does not translate into everyday products for the masses. It caters to pretentious hipsters who will gladly overpay for something other people can't afford, and wouldn't pay for even if they could.

I would be ok if Apple broke off a super high end subsidiary that had loose ties to the parent company to sell to these clients, but to let him design for the masses would be terrible.

Here's hoping Ive makes 99%+ of design choices.
 
There are items that Ive has designed that I don't like. Some of Newson's watch designs leave a lot to be desired. I think the more brainpower/concepts the better in this area, if they can afford to bring him on, why not?

That being said I wish I had the money to buy one of his hourglasses. So cool!
 
jaw04005 said:
The talent pool at Apple has expanded dramatically since the death of Steve Jobs. There was noone else like Steve Jobs. It's going to take a village to replace his insight, creativity, drive and intuition. That's what Cook is doing. Setting Apple up for years to come.
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I would disagree with this part. Most of these people have been hired to fill roles that Jobs would not have personally performed during his tenure. Even he claimed that much of it was a matter of finding the right people.
 
apolloa said:
I cannot see Apple copying that kind of quality using hundreds of assembly line workers and machines.
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Who says they can't use more than one assembly facility in more than one country to build a range of wearable product spanning a price range of over 100X, some custom-built, some mass-produced?
 
Northgrove said:
He has of course designed other gear, but what stands out to me is that they do not follow a minimalist aesthetic. They rather seem to focus on robustness, not shying away from even looking a bit fat. How that idea will be merged with the ultra slim designs Apple stand for, I have no idea. I of course hope that this won't be a turn for the worse!

Edit: I can see one plane Ive and Newson meet at: Both seem to be excellent industrial designers. Both styles seems to show confidence. But I strongly think they are not the same styles. Not even close.
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Wholeheartedly agree. Whether you like his stuff or not it "isn’t Apple".
 
NovemberWhiskey said:
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Newson's idea of a good car design. Looks like something out of a cartoon.

This guy is good for one thing: catering to eccentric design circles in a purely abstract sense. "Oh he's so cutting edge" "His work is so unique, he's a genius."

While that may be true while you are sipping on overpriced wine at an art gallery filled with statues of ceramic rabbits, his design just does not translate into everyday products for the masses. It caters to pretentious hipsters who will gladly overpay for something other people can't afford, and wouldn't pay for even if they could.

I would be ok if Apple broke off a super high end subsidiary that had loose ties to the parent company to sell to these clients, but to let him design for the masses would be terrible.

Here's hoping Ive makes 99%+ of design choices.
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Tell us how you really feel
 
teknikal90 said:
ummm...the flame surfacing that Bangle brought is the most influential auto design language that came out of the 2000s.

everybody copied it because it was so good.

to me, the back of the 7 series was unique and cool. took a while getting used to, but so does everything that's cutting edge.

Now it's everywhere.

by the way... do you actually follow automotive design? he's been there for like 2 decades. perhaps even more.. so he was around even before the e65 debacle
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Everybody like who?
The back of the 7 was definitley unique. It was uniquely ugly and that’s why it was panned.

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NovemberWhiskey said:
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Newson's idea of a good car design. Looks like something out of a cartoon.

This guy is good for one thing: catering to eccentric design circles in a purely abstract sense. "Oh he's so cutting edge" "His work is so unique, he's a genius."

While that may be true while you are sipping on overpriced wine at an art gallery filled with statues of ceramic rabbits, his design just does not translate into everyday products for the masses. It caters to pretentious hipsters who will gladly overpay for something other people can't afford, and wouldn't pay for even if they could.

I would be ok if Apple broke off a super high end subsidiary that had loose ties to the parent company to sell to these clients, but to let him design for the masses would be terrible.

Here's hoping Ive makes 99%+ of design choices.
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Now this guy gets it. I mean his car design is so good I can see Ferrari using it for their next model. No, just no. It’s crap.
Just like those atrocities we see on the catwalk that nobody wears. Having said that it doesn’t mean we can’t tone him down a little which I’m sure is what Dolce and Gabbana and the like do for the masses.
 
This reminded me of an amusing story from former Apple designer Doug Satsger as published in the Max Chafkin book Design Crazy:

"There was an incredible creative energy in the team when we sat down together. The design team is very connected, always out together, traveling together as a team. One of my favorite memories was when the design team went out to dinner because Marc Newson was in town. Mark is one of Jony’s closest friends. We ordered several bottles of champagne and crème caramel for everybody, and Marc says, “We don’t need any utensils,” and he sucks the thing off the plate. And we went around the table sucking crème caramel off the bar at Le Colonial, which is this really nice French-Vietnamese restaurant. Jony got so wasted that night that he vomited all over the men’s bathroom. So we put him in [Apple industrial designer] Chris Stringer’s brand-new Audi TT and, as soon as he sat down, he just filled the dash.”

Excerpt From: Chafkin, Max. “Design Crazy.” Byliner Inc., 2013-08-30. iBooks.
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2ms said:
This committee-of-celebrities Apple is basically the complete opposite of the Apple that got to where Apple is today.

I give them 7 more years before they are the next Sony/Microsoft. They're about 30% of the way there so far.
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WOW, you nailed it!
 
H2SO4 said:
Wholeheartedly agree. Whether you like his stuff or not it "isn’t Apple".
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This reminds me of some of the "what are you doing Apple!" comments when Apple hired Kevin Lynch from Adobe. Marc Newson has a degree in jewelry design. He's designed a wider range of products than any Apple designers ever have (including clothing and watches). Seems to me like a good talent to bring on board. Apple must have some cool stuff in the pipeline to get a high profile designer like that (who can basically pick and choose what he does and who he works for) to join the company. Or they just offered him a crapload of money.
 
akm3 said:
This is it. This is the first step in Ive retiring.

He's trying to find an iconic replacement figurehead so Apple still seems to be design driven so he can go back to England and enjoy being unbelievably rich.

2 years or less mark my words!
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Riiiiiiiiiiiiight, so Apple knows he's on the way out the door & is hiring a replacement; but just put him on charge of a second HUGE area, thus guaranteeing chaos, were he to leave.
 
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