Industrial Designer Marc Newson to Join Apple Under Jony Ive

[Tycho24]

Apple needs more technical innovation not more designers .

I disagree.
They pretty much ushered in the high resolution craze, nobody has matched their fingerprint scanner, nor 64 bit on mobile- I don't understand what you think Apple is lacking in technical innovation. They obviously employ the best & most creative engineers on the planet..... it's ok that they want a few "rock stars" as well.

 

[D.T.]

Here's Jony wearing one of Marc's watches.

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This is his watch company.

http://www.ikepod.com

If you fancy one they cost between $14,000 - $70,000.

They come highly recommended.

Thanks, I was going to ask, and you followed up already Neat, great info.

Look at this concept! http://www.fusechicken.com/blogs/news/15321801-will-there-be-an-iwatch-on-9-9-2014

Wow, that’s nice. The slick thing with that design is they’ve increased the internal capacity - without making the main dial section bigger - by extending the whole assembly out into the strap attachment points (which isn’t an uncommon watch design pattern).

 

[ogun7]

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.

Thank you. A gentleman and scholar

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Other than Dre (and let's get real that's probably mostly for show), what other celebrities has Apple hired?

Apple has hired some really smart, high-profile people that are at the top of their individual industries like Angela Ahrendts, Paul Deneve, Lisa Jackson, Kevin Lynch, Jimmy Iovine, Ian Rogers, Anand Shimpi, Michael Gartenberg, etc.

And you know why they hired them? Because they're Apple. Most of those people probably wouldn't have left their cushy other jobs to work anywhere else.

Only Apple could get top CEOs, CTOs, COOs and a former vice president of the United States to come work for it.

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.

Well written.

 

[mabhatter]

Pffffff I wouldn't want to 'regularly' fly a few thousand miles all the time! See this is why they should never have grounded one of the most stunning industrial designs in human history, Concorde

Incentive to invent teleportation!!

 

[Rogifan]

Apple needs more technical innovation not more designers .

Here's a list of employees Apple has hired in the past couple years. Don't see many designers on this list.

http://fortune.com/2014/09/06/look-whos-now-working-for-apple-inc/

Jay Blahnik: Fitness guru and consultant to Nautilus, Gatorade,Schwinn, Nike
Angela Ahrendts: Chief, Retail and On-Line Stores; formerly CEO of Burberry
Ueyn Block: formerly Director of Optics & Systems Engineering atC8 MediSensorsr
Alexander Chan: Biomedical engineer, formerly with Vital Connect
Paul Deneve: Chief of Special Projects; formerly CEO, YSL (Yves St Laurent)
Nancy Dougherty: Hardware Engineer; formerly Chief of Hardware Development with Sano Intelligence
Tommy Elliot: Former senior director for Visa
Nima Ferdosi: Algorithms Architect, formerly embedded sensors expert for Vital Connect
Marcelo Malini Lamago: formerly CTO of Cercacor, holder of more than 70 patents and/or patent applications
Yuming Liu: Formerly an experienced engineer who previously worked at Accuvein and O2MedTech
Kevin Lynch: Former Adobe CTO
Luca Maestri: CFO; formerly CFO of Xerox and Nokia Siemens
Andrew McCarthy: Formerly top mobile payments executive forJ.P. Morgan Chase Bank
Catherine Monier: President YSL Europe and Wholesale Director Worldwide
Divya Nag: Co-founder of Stem-Cell Theranostics; participant inStartX Med; experience in FDA approval
Ravi Narasimhan: Formerly Vice-President of Research and Development for Vital Connect
Michael O’Reilly: Formerly Chief Medical officer and Executive Vice President of Medical Affairs at Masimo
Ari Partinen: Formerly Lumia Photography lead at Nokia
Patrick Pruniaux: Formerly Head of Sales for Tag-Heuer
Dr. Roy J.E.M. Raymann: Formerly Philip’s Senior Scientist for Sleep Research
Ben Shaffer: Formerly Nike Research and Development head.
Anand Lal Shimpi: Digital Marketing Director, Apple; formerly the editor and publisher of AnandTech
Musa Tariq: Formerly Nike Senior Director, Social Media and Community; Social Media Chief for Burberry
Stephen Waydo: Formerly of C8 Medisensors
Todd Whitehurst: Formerly Vice President of Product Development, Senseonics

 

[moderately]

I am finding this really exciting. Design is such an important part of what makes Apple products great. Apple has been driving the fashion of computers and smart phones for years. The iPhone will be changing, the ultra thin has played itself out. I think it peaked with the iPod 4 with its sharp and uncomfortable to hold edge and it has taken a long time to manifest thru the rest of the line. As with any endeavor, there is a certain momentum.

That the iPhone 6 is expected to resemble the iPod 5 tells me we are nearing the end of a design approach.

All the whiners who have been saying, "They don't need to sacrifice functionality for a thin form factor" will be saying, "It doesn't need to be so fat/blocky/curvy/whatever."

It will be fun to see what comes next.

 

[OllyW]

For that price I would rather get a Tudor or spend a bit more and get a Breitling Cosmonaute.

They start at $14,000 so you could get a couple of your favourites instead.

 

[rowspaxe]

Isn't it about time to drop the too cool for the room hipster poses of Ive (and now with his new "partner"? It's gotten quite old.

this was my first thought. kind of.

 

[peterdevries]

They start at $14,000 so you could get a couple of your favourites instead.

Haha, yes. I was mistaken. I do prefer my Breitling Cosmonaute and it was less than half that price. ;-)

 

[chrisbru]

Yyyyyeah, no. It's for "internet" from the first iMac. Could be wrong, but pretty sure it wasn't Bono.

whoosh

 

[mchenrytl]

This is the best Apple news I've heard all year. Newson is one of the greats. I don't buy the argument of others that it's always better to have younger newer designers. The old dogs can still design just as well. I akin it to architects.

Ikepod is a neat niche watch brand. They are not all that expensive. Here's several for sale, granted second hand but still:

http://www.watchrecon.com/?query=ikepod&last_days=0

 

[juanrp]

Hmm, alright.
Keep making pretty phones is all I have to say.

 

[Zxxv]

All these people saying Johnny Ive is leaving cause he made money and stuff. Have any of you thought he might really miss his friend Steve Jobs and everyday is painful and the fun is just not there anymore for him. That maybe he's done his best to move on like nothing's changed or its for the better but maybe it isn't that easy. Who knows. Just he doesn't owe anyone anything and if he does choose someone to replace himself maybe his choice of person is worth respecting.

 

[teknikal90]

I have to agree (other than the fact that he's since left BMW design). To be honest, the latter BMW's since Bangle left have actually looked worse than anything came up with on his watch. The new 3/4 series especially. They follow the theme he helped create (evolved or devolved) but they just... cheapen the look. The funky cut lines between the headlights and the kidney grill look fiddly and ugly. The proportions are still elegant but things have gotten a lot more bland and dull.

As far as the entire industry following Chris? It's widely known. Love him or hate him (and many speak ill of him even as they go and Bangle everything they touch), everyone has jumped on his wagon in one way or another. Flame surfacing has been used from most major manufacturers. The "Bangle Butt" from the 7-series, love it or hate it, has been copied on everything from mainstream Camry's and Accord's and Malibu's, Impala's, etc.

--> http://www.cardesignnews.com/site/process/design_essays/display/store4/item152778/ <--

Well worth the read. As much criticism as his designs levied, BMW's sales skyrocketed with him at the helm and he had the cahonies to make significant changes to the design aesthetic that freshened the model range and went away from the conservatism that most German cars followed to a sort of avant garde approach that caused people to flock in.

To say he wasn't influential... when he forced Mercedes' hand? They went from a similar conservative approach to firing back with their own attempt to push design further up the pecking order. To go from a very conservative Audi to a company that went out and figured out how to push their own boundaries and limits aesthetically since.

Everybody like who?
The back of the 7 was definitley unique. It was uniquely ugly and that’s why it was panned.

Read above.
Also, to name a few other car manufacturers... Hyundai (starting with their i3). Mercedes Benz.... Toyota (starting with the 2007 corolla). Ford...

Pretty well everyone.
Just to illustrate...

Before flame surfacing and after...

Bmw pioneered that wider stance modern look of cars that is prevalent today

 

[teknikal90]

Literally 1 year before flame surfacing..... This is how cars looked before bangle

 

[k995]

I disagree.
They pretty much ushered in the high resolution craze,

They didnt

nobody has matched their fingerprint scanner,

True

nor 64 bit on mobile-

irrelevant

I don't understand what you think Apple is lacking in technical innovation. They obviously employ the best & most creative engineers on the planet..... it's ok that they want a few "rock stars" as well.

The first 3 generations apple was tech/software wise ahead of all others. Now they struggle to catch up every year.

 

[Rogifan]

All these people saying Johnny Ive is leaving cause he made money and stuff. Have any of you thought he might really miss his friend Steve Jobs and everyday is painful and the fun is just not there anymore for him. That maybe he's done his best to move on like nothing's changed or its for the better but maybe it isn't that easy. Who knows. Just he doesn't owe anyone anything and if he does choose someone to replace himself maybe his choice of person is worth respecting.

I'm sure one of the reasons Newson was hired because of his experience with watches (I've heard he studied jewelry design in school). But I think you also may be right. Here's someone Ive can bounce ideas off of, a collaborative partner like Steve was.

 

[Rogifan]

Newson has also designed clocks for Jaeger LeCoultre

 

[Tycho24]

They didnt


True


irrelevant


The first 3 generations apple was tech/software wise ahead of all others. Now they struggle to catch up every year.

I think even the most jaded will be pleased with the "catching up" in iOS 8.
Personally, I cannot wait to Swype on iPhone!!!

 

[iPhone 10]

It looks like Newson Will bring some great design to Apple. just look at some of the products that he has designed

 

[theanimaster]

Is Ive giving Newson the finger? Sure looks like it XD ~!

 

[69650]

Well there's a recipe for disaster, and one of the first issues Steve Jobs had to address when he returned. It's a matter of focus, you can do a handful of things really well that match a particular theme or you can make everything from phones to refrigerators like Samsung.

I wouldn't advocate that level of diversification but they will simply not be able to maintain current levels of growth without new products. They can focus and stagnate or expand and take a few risks.

 

[kdarling]

In the same interview, Newson said that both he and Ive are perfectionists. "You discover that very few people have the level of perfection we do. It is actually very sick. It is neurotic."

Right. Which is why we got "perfect" cases like this one, where the iPhone logo was not hidden. Oh wait.

Newson has created everything from furniture to eye glasses, and he has been described by Vanity Fair as having a "love of color and of sensual curves," with his work taking on a "futuristic, vaguely Jetson-like flair."

I think we already see his influence on Ive with shapes and "mod" 1960s colors that Newson favors:





I think I'd much rather that Ive continued to be "inspired" by Dieter Rams, than by Newson.



Urgh.

 

[k995]

I think even the most jaded will be pleased with the "catching up" in iOS 8.
Personally, I cannot wait to Swype on iPhone!!!

I hope in the market for nex phone & tablet. New ipad air is certain phone is uncertain if its going to be apple or not .

 

[Tycho24]

I hope in the market for nex phone & tablet. New ipad air is certain phone is uncertain if its going to be apple or not .

Nice....
Really hoping that multiple user profiles via TouchID is an iPad Air 2/iOS 8 ability.