“It’s human to create and learn. Doing isn’t a commitment, it’s just a step that keeps your ideas in motion and your options open. What are you working on? What are you learning? What are you creating?” — » 16 May 2012, baked by Stephen Anderson @ The Pastry Box Project (via ninakix)
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“For a large percentage of a program, it often is not clear whether we are actually going to be able to solve the problems. For a significant percentage of the time we don’t know whether we are going to have to give up on an idea or not. And that’s been the case whether it’s the iPod, the iPhone or the iPad.”
He goes on: “And there have been times when we’ve been working on a program and when we are at a very mature stage and we do have solutions and you have that sinking feeling because you’re trying to articulate the values to yourself and to others just a little bit too loudly. And you have that sinking feeling that the fact that you are having to articulate the value and persuade other people is probably indicative of the fact that actually it’s not good enough. On a number of occasions we’ve actually all been honest with ourselves and said ‘you know, this isn’t good enough, we need to stop’. And that’s very difficult.”
There might be some significance in Ive’s switch from first person plural to third person in the previous paragraph or it might just be his turn of phrase. One thing that is certain is that Ive will almost always say ‘we’ when talking about his work, rather than ‘I’.
Ive says that knowing when to call a halt to a project is “an important part of my job”.
There is within Apple a strong belief in people focusing on their area of expertise, says Ive, but when a product is being developed the process can be quite fluid. He says: “As we’re sitting together to develop a product you would struggle to identify who the electrical engineer was, who’s the mechanical engineer, who’s the industrial designer.”
Teamwork is an important part of the process. “One of the things that is particularly precious about working at Apple is that many of us on the design team have worked together for 15-plus years and there’s a wonderful thing about learning as a group. A fundamental part of that is making mistakes together. There’s no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.”
— Jonathan Ive: simplicity isn’t simple - Telegraph (via sreikanth)
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Our startup’s design vision and ethos is influenced heavily by John Maeda’s excellent Laws of Simplicity.
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“I care more about experience than money. I was at a party once where someone asked me about my work and she said I must make a lot of cash. When I said I give my photos away to the public, she looked at me like I was a fool. She derisively asked, “Why would anybody do that?” and I replied “What did you do last Tuesday?” She said that she came home from work late and watched Law & Order on her DVR. I said, “Last Tuesday I had a four-hour dinner with Augusten Burroughs, and then I photographed him. I didn’t make any money off of it, but it was a hell of a Tuesday night.” Then she smiled and got what I was about.” — Photographer’s Photos Found in Over 5,000 Wikipedia Articles (via photographsonthebrain)
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“If you can hold it, as one holds liquor, exhaustion is its own kind of drug.” — Fantastic New York Magazine piece by Kathryn Schulz on writing (and running) in the dark and the circadian curse of being a “night owl.” (via explore-blog)
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“‘Never think that a client is lucky to have you.’ We don’t do something rare… If someone hires us, we should be so honored that they chose us.” — The Great Discontent: Scott Hill (via 60gritbeard)
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“If you can stand up every 20 minutes — even if you do nothing else — you change how your body responds physiologically.” — Gretchen Reynolds [more exercise and fitness tips here]
“I photographed everything: my food, people in the park, my experiences in New York, being young and gay. I was trying to find my voice through documenting my life. Then I started to realize the things that were important to me — like I love movement, and I love nudity, and I really love just the landscape and being outside, and traveling through the United States. And things that weren’t so interesting to me started dropping off. I was figuring out what kind of photographer I was gonna be.” — Ryan McGinley
“With the shift from an industrial economy to a service economy, a lot of land is abandoned and derelict. No one knows what to do with it. The High Line is a great example of making something new. When we got hired to design it, the first thing we did was go and look at it and stand on it for the first time. And the immediate feeling was, “how do we not mess this up?” Because what we found there was so special and strange that any design needed to amplify those conditions.” — James Corner, Field Operations