Jonathan Ive Gives Giant iPod Nano as Birthday Gift

[emdotdee]

He could have at least got in engraved for him.
Cool gift though.

[edit]
And to veinticinco(VVV, next post) and some others who thinks the gift is dumb, what's tacky and unquestionable about giving a gift that you think someone may like and who obviously appreciates it? Maybe Jonathon Ive knows Paul Smith a little bit better than you do...

 

[Veinticinco]

Oh dear, I hope PS doesn't have any movie actor friends....

"To Paul, Happy Birthday, hope you like it!"

[encl. lifesize cardboard cutout of actor in action pose - 'redeployed' courtesy of his local Blockbuster]

Sorry, but as 'gifts' go, it's cheap, tacky, and in questionable taste - and I'm not just talking about it being pink either

As one British designer to another, you'd have thought Jonny would have a bit more imagination never mind respect. Smith is after all a notorious high-end gadgetophile. As opposed to an EMO teenager with a Saturday job at Forbidden Planet.

 

[0098386]

Now that is smart. I'd probably auction it off mind you .

 

[sishaw]

I remember reading about someone else getting one as a gift... unfortunately one day they forgot it on the roof of their car as they drove off..

Ha! I actually laughed at that one!

 

[20MusicDude13]

Its made from a BIG slab of ALU-MIN-YUM

 

[Morod]

Watch the batteries! If that one explodes, he's a goner.

 

[oTaRu]

i wonder what's inside the ipod "nano"....

 

[Freis968]

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[Freis968]

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[Boostin]

Ipod Giant

What do u guys think one of those would be worth, one of those being the ones that hung in the Apple Store windows a few months back?

 

[batchtaster]

As opposed to an EMO teenager with a Saturday job at Forbidden Planet.

Wow, where the crap did that come from?

Giant pink iPod.... [something happens here].... Jonny thinks Paul Smith is "an EMO teenager with a Saturday job at Forbidden Planet."

Especially since Paul Smith loves it. Enough to put it on his blog, at any rate. Obviously what you presume Paul Smith to like, or be deemed worthy of him receiving, and what he actually would like don't match. Ive, on the other hand, obviously knew exactly what to get him. Getting artistically indignant about a) a present for someone else, and b) a present that the recipient actually loves, is just pretentiously wanky.

 

[squints]

notice there's not pic of the front. There is no front on this giant cardboard ipod.

 

[trySEARCHING]

A guy giving another guy a giant pink nano. Uh...

glad somebody said it...

 

[tommyminahan]

i got one too.. its silver..

 

[Truffy]

I could be wrong and not that it matters, but isn't that a mini not the nano?

Looks like the nano 4G to me.

 

[Sometimes Jones]

Does it blend?

Yes! It's blends. It dices and slices! For zest? It's the best! Look folks - I can't do this all day!