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

[Robert.Walter]

Unabashedly sill-y-cone(1.) free.

1. pronounced by Ive like Al-u-minium.

 

[tubular]

Former Apple designer Sir Jony Ive has created a new-look red nose to celebrate Red Nose Day, the annual Comic Relief charity telethon broadcast on British television that aims to raise money for poor and disadvantaged people.

Good on you, Sir Jony!😀

 

[Razorpit]

Reading through the comments, who says a red nose can't still bring laughs. 🤡

 

[Belly-laughs]

His best design ever Can't wait for the Product RED MacBooks.

 

[zoozx]

It's for people that upgrade their iPhone every year thinking it's immensely different from the previous year.

 

[sparkinstx]

All the ones I've seen (mainly at Walgreens stores) are foam, so I would imagine these are recyclable/biodegradable, and that would be an improvement over the current ones.

 

[audieddie]

I suppose the all the brown that’s going to end up on those will cause another run on the apple cleaning cloth.

 

[MacADameYeahNut]

Breaking news: Rudolph reindeer files suit against Apple for trademark infringement

 

[GraXXoR]

The corners are too round.

Buy four and you can stand your Mac Pro on them and roll it around.

 

[Slevin]

Ugh won’t ship to the USA. SAD, I was going to buy 4 of them

 

[johnmarki]

A design for a cause, and it's sure to sell out. It seems the trend for his design co-op is to make a huge, expensive collab, and then do charity work off of that success. Kudos to him and the team.

 

[C00rDiNaT0r]

Too bad they don't ship to the US

 

[Robert.Walter]

Less fragile than a new idea.

 

[brandoman]

Well, the only BAD thing is we didn't get a Jonny Ive video introduction of all the materials used, the process, and is input on the "chamfer edges 😄." I miss those Apple videos.

 

[FreakinEurekan]

Sold out.

Also - “Can’t innovate any more, my ass!”

 

[CJM]

I bought a couple.. Not a bad price and for charity!

 

[RobArtLyn]

I was looking for a link to download a .wav or .m4a of the most perfect noise in history. I now understand this… is NOT that.

 

[DJJAZZYJET]

$99.99 or £99.99 👏

 

[Ed A.]

Can’t innovate my ass.

 

[digger10]

Every school kid and teacher in the country will probably buy one of these, and £2.49 is about the average price for a red nose. When I was a kid they were £1 but that was the 80’s lol. Thankfully Apple aren’t running comic relief the model you suggest would probably be their strategy lol.

A few years ago I was clearing out an old desk that had been been sitting in my parents' attic for the best part of 3 decades. Was horrified to find a jar full of old coins marked Comic Relief that I'd collected when around 8 years old.

I have a dim memory of child me missing the deadline to take the cash to the Post Office and my mum and I vowing to do so as soon as the appeal opened the following year. Clearly we never did. Must have forgotten about it.


Horrified by having that bad karma out in the world, I ran the numbers through an inflation calculator. You're right, a pound then then was worth 2.5-3 times more.

Took that total, added some interest and a healthy scoop of guilt money and made a donation. Hopefully now square with the Comic Relief gods.

 

[Curry119]

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.

The new Macs have gotten a bit chonky, I'm still not sure it's an improvement.

 

[Schizoid]

On Lenny I thought it looked … OOOOOOOOOOOOOKAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY

(Target audience reference that nobody will get!)

 

[anthogag]

From the Jony Ive spring/summer collection.

 

[GermanSuplex]

I want one that comes in brushed Al-Oooh-Min-Yum.

 

[shakerstevens]

Because poor people don’t exist on alternating years

Its comic relief one year, sports relief the next. Both events support the same types of charities but just a different theme on the event itself