Jony Ive Designs 'Most Perfect Nose in History' for British Charity Comic Relief

[haydn!]

Was Sir Jony Ive paid for this iComic Nose?

Traditionally, almost all the celebrities, and companies, etc involved in Comic Relief give their time for free.

 

[ian87w]

That's a common folding design used to create Chinese red lanterns.

Yeah, I don’t really see what the big deal is here. I thought it was Ive designing a Chinese red lantern before I read the article. (Before that, I though he wanted to redesign the Japanese flag…)

 

[HelyCopter]

That's a common folding design used to create Chinese red lanterns.

you've only missed the "android have used this design for over 10 years now" part

 

[CraigJDuffy]

For everyone that thought Ive was the problem, do you still think that way? Nothing in the Apple lineup is aesthetically pleasing now. The current designs lack coherence.

Lol what - the MacBook Pro and Air are the most aesthetically pleasing machines they’ve ever released?

 

[CraigJDuffy]

Cool! Btw Red Nose Day is once every two years not every year

Because poor people don’t exist on alternating years

 

[HelyCopter]

Well said.The Yanks just don’t get it.

the same way we don't get how someone can publicly follow Tottenham hotspurs on 2023, but here we are

 

[timmyh]

Cool! Btw Red Nose Day is once every two years not every year

Apparently it's annual now (used to be biennual).

 

[squawk7000]

Apparently it's annual now (used to be biannual).

I think you mean it used to be biennial. biannual is twice a year, easily confused

 

[aknabi]

Mr Ive has just helped add one more piece of useless crap to the world.

Guess one could add all the butterfly MacBooks to that list

 

[Marx55]

NO. The simplest, the better. We are destroying planet Earth and some do not care.

 

[SmugMaverick]

Grabbed two as always for charity mate.

£2.50

 

[Fyrus]

I wonder if Apple paid Ive anything to stop him from ever working for Samsung or Google. If I were Samsung CEO I would pay Ive a fortune to start designing flagship products.

They still own the design of Ive’s soundsticks…

But I doubt it’s a good idea, unless you want your devices to look like Apple devices.

Maybe in a few years when Apple’s design and LoveFrom’s design aren’t that similar.

 

[cicalinarrot]

This is incredibly beautiful to me.
It's an actually very good looking and design-y version of a mundane object that serves both as great advertisement for a charity and a self-parody of high-end over-designed design, by arguably the most influential designer of our century.
The irony in this perfectly suits Comic Relief.
Great job.

 

[timmyh]

I think you mean it used to be biennial. biannual is twice a year, easily confused

Misspelled. Thanks for pointing that out.

 

[adrianlondon]

Not to be outdone, Samsung have released theirs:

 

[cicalinarrot]

Looking at bulky non-ergonomic 'base plates' ... Ugly design!

I think you're missing the point here...

 

[krakman]

……..And here is a dongle to allow you to breathe through it…… only $29.99

 

[gpat]

Agreed man. If Ive was still at Apple, we would’ve never been graced with such bangers as the 2021 FatBook Pros, or the beloved Apple Watch Fatra, or the iBrick 14 Pro Max.

FatBook? Sounds so juicy and satiating. Would buy instantly

 

[Spaceboi Scaphandre]

Now this is actually a really good design and the fact it’s cheap to make and sell is even more impressive

Now why couldn’t Ive done designs like this for our damn computers instead of the jokes we got during the Ive era?

 

[MacWiz_007]

Being that Ive is a clown, this is fitting. I'm glad this is for charity though.

 

[Bustycat]

When you open the most innovative case and take out the most perfect nose, you are enjoying the most advanced experience for celebrating the Red Nose Day, the most remarkable day of the United Kingdom.

 

[JapanApple]

Just bought 3

where are you going to use them on yourself? OOPS! never mind👀

 

[SalisburySam]

I think you mean it used to be biennial. biannual is twice a year, easily confused

Almost. Semiannual is twice a year. Biannual is every two years. Semi is half, bi is twice.

 

[machpost]

How much is AppleCare+ for this thing?

 

[peterdev]

I think that is highly unlikely as Comic Relief doesn't pay anybody else except the hundreds of millions it has paid to good causes over the past 38 years. Jony Ive is perhaps one of the least famous involved over the years too, despite his amazing career with Apple.

Not unlikely at all. The CEO, just imaging that, a Charity CEO making £160K

https://uk.indeed.com/cmp/Comic-Relief/salaries?job_category=management