MetaFilter posts tagged with design and apple

"iPhone and iPod Touch wallpapers for the rest of us."

defenestration — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:35:51 -0800

Poolga: iPhone and iPod Touch wallpapers from a selection of designers and illustrators from around the world.

Good Design is as little design as possible.

From Bklyn — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:52:07 -0800

Huh. Not the only time it's been noted, but still,Dieter Ra ms did make it look good first. An interesting guy who's basic design precepts Jonathan Ive has been very successful at emulating. For which I am only happy. These are not by Rams.

If the iPhone had been made in the 80s

Blazecock Pileon — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:53:38 -0800

The son of industrial designer Hartmut Esslinger (creator of the distinct styling of the Apple IIc and subsequent products, as well as founder of frog design) shares memories and photographs (auf Deutsch; Google cache) of Apple's early attempts at an iPhone.

So, which way is up?

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 14 May 2007 01:11:24 -0800

Innovation, originality, revolution... Oh.

The Secret of Apple Design

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 08 May 2007 20:17:24 -0800

"The difference between BJ and AJ, Before and After Jobs, is not the process," [Don Norman] continues. "It is the person. Never before did Apple have such focus and dedication. Apple used to wobble, moving this way and that. No more."

My white block is different from your white block.

Extopalopaketle — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:51:05 -0800

What if Apple is bad for design? Or at least not good?

Ear Candy

kyleg — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:24:27 -0800

If you wanted to spend $100 on a 512 mb capacity mp3 player with no screen, you could buy an iPod shuffle, or you could get a player in the form of a PEZ dispenser. Developed by a stay-at-home dad who documented the design process on a sadly defunct blog, the only drawback is that it doesn't dispense candy.

Why the iPod looks clean.

Tlogmer — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:17:53 -0800

Why does the iPod look so clean?

iTunes, Brushed Metal. Lunch in this town again.

Tlogmer — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 21:45:37 -0800

The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme.

I don't need a widget for that, though

nthdegx — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 11:05:17 -0800

Is Mac OS X Becoming Crufty? I definitely think so.

iPod Coffee Table

haasim — Tue, 24 May 2005 09:47:02 -0800

iPod Coffee Table created by a Toronto design student

Somebody had to do it. Really.

elwoodwiles — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:25:40 -0800

Following a long history of innovative designs Apple has created a loyal following. Today they released their newest iMac into the wild.

i <3 apple

serafinapekkala — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 08:54:44 -0800

Lick Me, I'm A Mackintosh. One columnist's ode/rant re: Apple's design ethos.

nathan_teske — Sat, 04 Aug 2001 13:49:30 -0800

The construction of Memphis area Apple Store held-up by sign ordinance prohibiting the display of food products on signage. Sweet Gods of Commerce: What would Orange Julius do?! [via MacNN]

holloway — Wed, 04 Apr 2001 05:16:54 -0800

Clean and of things to come. My stationery fetish reaches new heights. Cute pads 2cm by 5cm I must have. 1B pencils and thickly nibbed felts in a black rubber coated organiser shaped like a pyramid. This dispenser will go to the left.

joeclark — Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:59:34 -0800

Grrrlz R the future of computerz! A suprisingly warm-hearted and atypically unguyish analysis of the “ridiculous” new iMac colours and what they represent for future computer use. If Apple blew it by not letting teenage boys play games, are they smart to make iMacs attractive to sensitive, design-focused people (including grrrlz) as so-called digital hubs? Or will the boyz shoot ’em up on Wintel while the grrrlz rip boy-band MP3s on groovy iMacs? (My claim: Bondi blue remains the bestest iMac shade ever. Discuss.)

leo — Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:03:15 -0800

Roger Black on Design. MacAddict put up an interview with Roger Black from their August 2000 issue. There are a couple of interesting points as in his take on transitioning from print to web:

"I think that the main thing is pretty much to work as you would in print design. A good designer always focuses on the reader or the customer, the viewer, whatever the end-user is. You just have to do that on the Net the same way you do in print.... I do not believe that the technological hurdles are that big. It doesn't seem to me that big of a deal.... Most of the stuff we do on the Web is not particularly difficult. Almost anybody, particularly anybody under thirty growing up in our society has enough technological culture to work with it. Don't get scared. It’s not that big of a deal."

efader — Sat, 22 Jan 2000 16:16:29 -0800

Apple mergers with amazon.com Well not really but why is everyone copying the tab based interface... it is ugly, not expandable and assumes the end user is a complete moron.