With all the recent hype about Apple’s forthcoming products, I thought I’d post some pre-Ive-era throwbacks. These were posted as "The Origins of the iPhone" at Fudder.de. Via FFFOUND
The second picture is revolutionary(or should be).
Using Colours on computer cases instead of the steril gray(or b&w).
Computers could be part of the interior. that would be sweet:)
I worked at frogdesign for 7 years, and there was a huge file cabinet filled with slides of models just like these. Literally hundreds of visionary ideas that were impossible to implement at the time. frog was paid a monthly retainer just to come up with cool stuff until Steve got booted. Whenever we thought we had a revolutionary idea, Hartmut would go and dig in that cabinet and pull out something very similar done 5-6 years earlier. Apple’s culture of design excellence was nurtured there.
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DE says:
June 16, 2008 at 2:49 pmarrrrrrrrrrrr these are amazing.
Mirwen72 says:
June 16, 2008 at 2:58 pmbrrrrrrrrrrrrr so sterile. I prefer stream-line design
Vijay says:
June 16, 2008 at 11:09 pmThe green grid makes the first photo look totally awesome.
DE says:
June 16, 2008 at 11:17 pmcrrrrrrrrrrr what you prefer is stupid.
jacob says:
June 16, 2008 at 11:41 pmdoes anyone else see the black ‘painting’ in the background of the first image (the notebook)?
I wonder if it’s just artifacts from an old photo or some CIA type redaction…
Anonymous says:
June 17, 2008 at 11:23 amWow…1337 h4x0r headset and matching watch for the win haha…
joshua says:
June 17, 2008 at 2:01 pmThis stuff is great. Yup, the headset & watch win it.
Opie says:
March 17, 2010 at 4:47 amThe second picture is revolutionary(or should be).
Using Colours on computer cases instead of the steril gray(or b&w).
Computers could be part of the interior. that would be sweet:)
jam says:
March 23, 2010 at 8:44 amdrrrrrrrrrrrrrr modular pastel mac II nano system win!
Scotty H. says:
March 27, 2010 at 9:47 pmerrrrrrrrrrrrrr which way did he go?
TJ [sixlive] says:
April 9, 2010 at 5:48 amgahhhhhhhh The green grid totally makes it that much better…
themark says:
May 25, 2010 at 10:41 pmI worked at frogdesign for 7 years, and there was a huge file cabinet filled with slides of models just like these. Literally hundreds of visionary ideas that were impossible to implement at the time. frog was paid a monthly retainer just to come up with cool stuff until Steve got booted. Whenever we thought we had a revolutionary idea, Hartmut would go and dig in that cabinet and pull out something very similar done 5-6 years earlier. Apple’s culture of design excellence was nurtured there.