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Picasso’s Bull Prints Still Inspire Apple Designs | Artsy
This push for simplicity had a purpose. Even though he was a high-tech CEO, Steve could put himself in the shoes of customers, people who cared nothing for the ins and outs of the software industry. He never wanted Apple software to overload people, especially when they might already be stretched by the bustle of their everyday lives.
Ken Kocienda • Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
Atop the brochure McKenna put a maxim, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, that would become the defining precept of Jobs’s design philosophy: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
was willing to speak on the record for this story, preferring to let the work speak for itself—and to preserve the company’s fastidiously cultivated mythology. As a result, this is a story different from any other you’ve ever read about Apple. It is an oral history of Apple’s design, a decoding of the signature as told by the people who helped crea
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Janoff came up with a simple apple shape in two versions, one whole and the other with a bite taken out of it. The first looked too much like a cherry, so Jobs chose the one with a bite. He also picked a version that was striped in six colors, with psychedelic hues sandwiched between whole-earth green and sky blue, even though that made printing th
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