Ive seems to be spending all his time loving himself at events... I wish he actually spent that time fixing ios7.
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Jony Ive and Designer Marc Newson Create One-of-a-Kind '(RED) Desk' for Charity
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"We asked ourselves, 'what is the essence of desk-ness? What--at its most fundamental level--does a desk need to do?' And we found the answer: Hold *****."
Umm, isn't Ikea originally from Sweden?
This stuff is so popular now that many countries can be called 'the land of IKEA'.
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Ive can talk out of his ass all he wants, but that's a boring looking table.
The texture looks kind of nice and I assume it has a very smooth finish that makes you want to glide your fingers across, but the shape of it, especially those legs, just stab me in the eyes with glowing hot stake knifes.
The texture looks kind of nice and I assume it has a very smooth finish that makes you want to glide your fingers across, but the shape of it, especially those legs, just stab me in the eyes with glowing hot stake knifes.
Really? I suspect that he spent about 60 seconds sketching it onto a piece of paper, and then he handed it to an engineer/technician to make a solidworks model.
The engineer then spent about an hour throwing together the solidworks model, and then takes it back to Jonny. Jonney spends 30 seconds looking at it, then sketches the swirl pattern he wants on it (in about 20 seconds). The engineer then goes back, and incorporates the swirl pattern (probably takes 5 hours).
30 seconds of Jonny's time to approve, then the engineer dumps the solidworks model through mastercam, and hands the output to a machinist....
I mean, look at the thing, it looks like someone drew it on the back of a napkin. It is UGLY! If Jonny spent 20 hours designing it, then he is incompetent. There is not much detail to it. It is not like Jonny is carving this thing by hand in his backyard studio. He has a team to turn his "inspiration" into reality.
The only thing "elegant" is that it is machined from a single block of aluminum, which is somewhat impressive. Not wasteful of material (aluminum chips recycle fairly easily), but wasteful of machine time and electricity. IMHO, a nice industrial design with the "legs" that snapped into a dovetail on the bottom of the horizontal would have been more elegant, both in appearance and mechanical design, and efficient use of machine time.
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First, that looks like a cheap knock-off of something I saw at Ikea. The Ikea one was ugly, this is uglier.
But more important...It's coming on 4 years since a mac pro refresh. Their "flagship" laptops are using 18 month old CPUs and it's getting to the point where Haswell is too stale to buy even if they refresh. iPhone is falling laughably behind the market.....Their whole product line looks like a bunch of antiques. And Apple's chief designer is wasting his timing fapping off about how great he is and stroking his own ego instead of actually trying to help Apple catch up.
It's looking like Timmy should have Dumped Jony and kept Forstall after all.
But more important...It's coming on 4 years since a mac pro refresh. Their "flagship" laptops are using 18 month old CPUs and it's getting to the point where Haswell is too stale to buy even if they refresh. iPhone is falling laughably behind the market.....Their whole product line looks like a bunch of antiques. And Apple's chief designer is wasting his timing fapping off about how great he is and stroking his own ego instead of actually trying to help Apple catch up.
It's looking like Timmy should have Dumped Jony and kept Forstall after all.
what a lot of nonsense all these "he's a genius comments" are.
jony ive could **** in a bag and people would hail it as wonderful - its a desk ffs.
jony ive could **** in a bag and people would hail it as wonderful - its a desk ffs.
What do you mean by "none"? Maybe I was unclear (if I was I apologize): this is third MacRumors article about John Ive working on a one off product for a Product (Red) charity auction or something. Am I misunderstanding something here? If I understand correctly that he's working on these products, I just wonder how many more he's working on.
Since Jony is of course reading closely this thread,
here's few idea's for new one-of-a-kind artifacts:
1. Laptop with 17" matte retina screen and fusion drive
2. Headless mac with dGPU & usb3 with costs less than MP or imac.
here's few idea's for new one-of-a-kind artifacts:
1. Laptop with 17" matte retina screen and fusion drive
2. Headless mac with dGPU & usb3 with costs less than MP or imac.
Lol. Who would use such a thing? It looks to me to be top-heavy, just on its own. Add some stuff to the top of it (maybe an iMac, an inbox, a telephone, etc.) and it would have a serious tipping problem. Good design is beautiful and functional. The plastic one shown in this thread is actually more practical because the legs are thicker. Jony needs to be reigned in....
Perhaps a tiny red dot to find when bored, personally i love that table and if made from aircraft grade aluminium would be very strong.
And I would not expect nothing less than him produce art like this - with Jonys typical obsessive attention to detail, i. E. rounded corners, bag cut from one solid aluminum piece.
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Just like the camera , what a f'n joke. I dont care if the concept is that it's a one-off and not meant for use. It shows what in his head as a "perfect" product. As in perfect ... but not practical. All you need to know about his approach to ergonomics is the disaster that is iOS 7.
All this effort for Red is a joke too. The 68 million apple has raised, is barely the rounding error on Ive's or Cook's stock options.
All this effort for Red is a joke too. The 68 million apple has raised, is barely the rounding error on Ive's or Cook's stock options.
You'll have to see the thing for yourself. A picture means nothing. The detail on this thing should be very impressive. I've handled the most expensive tables in interior fairs (setting them up) and it's not only how the thing looks, but how it feels, interacts with the environment. Just don't scratch it with your wedding ring
Not possible. There is no way that entire table was machined from a single piece of aluminum. Nevermind the mill you'd need access to, but that tables smallest dimension is still bigger than an ingot, and even if you could get it out of an ingot, you'd be turning tens of thousands of dollars into chips. That's a casting.
Mid-Century Modern is great. Updating a classic design with modern materials & processes is cool. But the original should be credited.
Mid-Century Modern is great. Updating a classic design with modern materials & processes is cool. But the original should be credited.
Mark Newson's web page has definitely been sucking on Jony Ive's design peace-pipe.
http://www.marc-newson.com
http://www.marc-newson.com