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Jonathan Ive Named Designer of the Year
no_demons writes "Jonathan Ive, the man behind the iMac and the iPod, has won the first Designer of the Year award from the Design Museum in London. The Independent has the scoop, and BBC2 has the documentary on Wednesday, June 11th."
The winner was chosen by four jurors "and the public", so it's not as if the potentially rigged polls had the final say.
I imagine that "the public's" votes could have been over-ruled by the four person jury, which was composed of accomplished designers in their own right.
I think the new layout is much better. Yeah, the touch buttons do have the downside of no tactical feedback. The touch buttons only work if you touch them with you're skin, so they do have an upside (unless you're wearing gloves). I have acctually played with one and was supprised to find that it wasn't really as bad as I though it would be.
Nope, it is a similar look- but the design of the beetle was all VW. Peter Schreyer was the head designer.
Try a glass desktop. This is but one type of glass desktop that would make your mac look very sharp.
The Mac Table could be one thing to look at...
Ralf
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RM-AV3000 kindly disagrees with you
For anybody who's never actually taken a close look at a G1 or G2 iPod, the damn thing is made out of steel and lucite. It's a fuckin brick, LITERALLY. You could build a HOUSE out of these things. You can drop it, sit on it, hit it with stuff, whatever. They're fantastic.
I'm not sure if the G3 iPods are as well put-together or not. They feel a little less bulletproof to me, but maybe that's cause I'm so used to the heft of my G1 5 GB model.
From the Independent story:
I don't know what weighting they gave to the internet vote, but in any case Ive was the choice of the jury also. Normally in these processes, if the organisers have any sense at all, they don't give the internet portion more weight than a single juror.
It's a coincidence. That guy only submitted this 6 months before the launch. Apple was already contracting manufacture by then, so that they could get the manufacturing lines started in time to have some ready for the launch.
Apple keyboards are unsuitable for UNIX users!
(That's just my little joke for those of you who remember that crank from about a year back!)
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