Steve Jobs Vision for Apple
“Sidelines are not where you want to live your life, ” Tim Cook, Apple CEO, told George Washington University graduates in a commencement speech on Sunday, 17 May. Photograph: William Atkins/The George Washington University Cook was delivering the commencement speech at George Washington University, in Washington DC. “His vision for Apple was a company that turned powerful…
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Georgia Tech is one of the nation’s top destinations for students interested in technological innovation – that’s also what makes our Industrial Design Program right for students interested in the creative potential of design. Undergraduate Options Our program offers a well-rounded course of study with a focus on user-centered design and an emphasis on critical thinking, basic…
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ADAM TRIPP Design Director As Design Director for Forms+Surfaces, Adam Tripp oversees Product Design and Development across all F+S product lines. In addition to the project management of new and custom product development, he is continually defining new materials and manufacturing processes that influence the look and feel of the Forms+Surfaces brand. Adam is responsible for…
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Product design includes Form Design and Functional Design. Form design means the shape and appearance of the product. Functional design means the working of the product. That is, how the product works. It is very important because the product will sell only if it works as expected. Form design is less important because it adds nothing to the product s performance. However…
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) as well as slating March 5, 2015 as the first National Industrial Design Day by the U.S. Congressional Record. In accordance with the revelry of accomplishments by the IDSA, they have also officially implemented a robust new Board of Directors. John Barratt, president and CEO of TEAGUE…
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The tech giant unveiled a $99 writing tool to pair with the new line of iPad Pros, which can detect pressure from the tip of the Pencil to vary the thickness of the writing strokes. It is precise enough to detail a stroke down to the last pixel, Apple s design guru Jony Ive said in a video describing the new product at Apple s event on Wednesday in San Francisco. Eric Risberg/AP…
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Gianninoto Industrial Design Graduate Scholarship IDSA’s Gianninoto Graduate Scholarship was originally established with a $25, contribution by the late Francesco Gianninoto, FIDSA , a US package designer who was a founder of the Package Design Council and president of Gianninoto Associates from 1932 to 1983. Two of his most famous designs were the Marlboro cigarette package…
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The first seven exclusive Steve Jobs schools have opened their doors across a number of cities in the Netherlands. Starting from today, schools in the Dutch cities of Sneek, Breda, Almere, Emmen, Heenvliet and Amsterdam will start teaching students according to the principles of the O4NT, or Onderwijs voor een nieuwe tijd (Education for a new era), which emphasizes the role…
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Enter a caption (optional) Flipping through architecture blogs, I m used to seeing modernist houses with the de rigueur Le Corbusier chaise longue and the Eames chairs inside. But this particular one jumped out at me because it s owned by an industrial designer married to a mechanical engineer. San-Francisco-based ID er Peter Russell-Clarke and mech-eng wife Jan Moolsintong…
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Today, the nation s Endowment for that Arts launched a study taking an in-depth consider the healthiness of the U . s . States’ industrial design industries. Taking an broadened look at industrial design and including designers who aren’t just focusing on commercial items, but using design thinking to create user encounters, systems and procedures, the 55-page report is really…
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In spring of 2009, I graduated from architecture school. At the time, the post-recession economy was rough and not much was happening for architects. With an interest in entrepreneurship and technology, I took a risk and decided to try working at a tech startup. Much to my surprise, I fell in love with the industry and 5 years later, I’m now a Product Designer at Percolate…
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Perhaps of all the many stories reported in the media after Steve Jobs’ death, his calligraphy studies with a former Trappist monk stirred my Catholic curiosity most. He credits this experience with formulating his taste for beautiful typography, which he later applied to Apple computers. To think of a technology wizard praising calligraphy at first seems unusual, but Jobs…
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Design is all around us, in our homes, in buildings, architecture, landscaping, products, movies, television, and much more. The world could not function without designers and artists. Without us, everything would be plain and boring, without imagination or inspiration. Designers are not only known for their amazing designs, but also for their inspirational and motivational…
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As a Product Designer at Percolate with a background in architecture, I’ve seen many parallels between the two fields. In previous posts, we discussed the importance of Circulation and Program to both architecture and product design. For the third post in the series, we’ll chat about hand-drawing, and learn how we apply architecture tools to product design at Percolate. Importance…
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You might say we’re awfully sentimental about food. We remember back to the way it used to be: grown locally by honest families we knew. Glorious harvests of naturally cultivated grains. True ingredients, prepared simply. It’s time to rediscover these methods, perspectives and virtues – treasures that we almost lost, somewhere in the past. Change comes in surprising ways. One…
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“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as…
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Daniel Kottke, a college friend of Jobs and one of Apple s first employees, says it was basically an accident that he revealed one of Jobs biggest secrets to the world: the fact that Jobs had a daughter, Lisa. According to Kottke, Jobs was furious. That s the reason they stopped speaking and one of the central plot points in the new movie Steve Jobs. Kottke, who worked…
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Entry Requirements: A good Honours Degree in Product Design or a closely related three-dimensional design discipline, or equivalent qualifications. Subject Routes MA Product Design Introduction to the course MA Product Design challenges the ‘conceptualists’ against the ‘realists’, with the ultimate aim of fusing the best of both approaches somewhere in between. ‘Conceptual…
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Few things in life are constant: death, taxes, and strangers asking “So what do you do?” within a minute of a handshake. As a UX designer, I’ve had a lot of practice over the years trying to nail down my answer. Here’s what I’ve come up with: It’s my job to be inside a user’s brain. I need to look at design from the mindspace of a user (actually, lots of users) and squash potential…
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With the Sorkin/Fassbinder movie coming out this week (see above) and Apple continuing to dominate our paychecks, there’s no escaping Steve Jobs right now. Even Jobs s signature style is having a moment in the menswear world. Well, a certain version of it is. You’ve heard us go on and on about the turtleneck for fall. We’re not saying you should wear the basic black mock-neck…
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