Jonathan Ive

Jonathan Ive known as Jonny, is now the official Senior Vice President of Design at Apple. Apple is a huge company that produce technological devices that we could not live without, such as laptops, personal computers, tablets and mobile devices. Today it is known as the most popular company for these products, the progress grows with every product is released. Almost in four to five days they will sell over a million products. A big major of this progress is the designer itself, Ive. Every customer will buy the device because he will fall in love with the design. 

He is the designer of many of Apple's products, including the MacBook Pro, iMac, MacBook Air, iPod, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad, iPad Mini and IOS7. These are the products he designed over and over by their generation such as the iPod touch has a fifth generation he redesigned it to a better look and functional.  He does not do only Apple product but also for other companies. In 2011 he was awarded as an inventor of 596 design and utility patents. 

Almost every designer has his inspiration from somewhere, it is difficult to just get a design out of your mind without do some research or be inspired. Jonathan Ive is inspired by Dieter Rams the chief designer at Braun from 1961 until 1995. Ive was influenced the most with the ten principles of " good design". Once Rams said  "Apple is one of only a handful of companies existing today that design products according to good design." (Vitsœ | Dieter Rams (Year N/A) Dieter Rams [Online] Available from: https://www.vitsoe.com/gb/about/dieter-rams [Accessed: 22th January], one can see some of todays Apple product have similar forms as of Rams designs from his career. Way back almost twenty years ago. As Ive get inspired from Rams, Ive is one of my favourite designers of today's designers, i follow him and his designs and try to understand his vision. 

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Reference:

Apple- Press Info, (Year N/A), Jonathan Ive [Online] Available: http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/jonathan-ive.html [Accessed: 22nd January 2014]

Jonathan Ive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia, (Year 2014) Jonathan Ive [Online] Available from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Ive [Accessed: 22nd January 2014]

Ron Arad

Ron Arad is an Israel designer, in his career he did not only creating new products but also build architectures and make graphic designs. As for products he focused more on chairs and the mostly used material is metal. Arad's work has been described as scary and bulky for his heavy metal use in his products.

One of his products is the Well Tempered Chair it was made in the 1986. Arad he wanted to explore and experiment in new ways of using metal. He wanted to see the the limits of what it can take. For this chair he used thin sheets of steel and twist them in different form and matter. He designed it by tensioning and bending the steel and formed a chair. He left it simple but with its natural look without any colour or texture even he left the bolt sticking out. In my opinion it is an astonishing chair but for me it is cold in the look even for the form. It look light weight but it is not to the fullest. If it had a bit of texture in it, it would look much better. The material he used is too thin for holding a person for a long period of time. By wear and tear it will lose its shape. 

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Another chair that Arad designed is the Big Easy that was made in 1988. This chair look similar to the Well Tempered Chair but in a more comfortable and good looking. It is made with the same material in sheets of steel with welded joints not yet perfectly smoothed down and polished. He also studied well the ergonomics of a chair and he discovered a new design that one can stay comfortable with the flexibility of the steel. As for finishing he covered his chair with polyester fibre was adopted for the very soft and comfort. In my opinion this is a much better chair even how the ergonomics are and he also make use of the flexibility of steel.

Big Easy Chair

This chair is the After Spring-Before Summer made in 1992. From the first look you can see the beauty in it but on the other hand it does not look comfortable nor ergonomic well. He mainly designed this chair for a different look and style. He used steel but in different layers and thickness. He wanted to see the flow in the chair with one single sheet of steel, the main thing he gave much importance is the gap in the middle where you can sit in it and it prevent you from slippery. For me this chair is more for the look then comfort or else you would not stay on it for long.

After Spring-Before Summer

Ron Arad designed a lot of strange looking objects but they came out very successful, he also was well know for his architecture work. As I can see this designer wants the viewer to amaze him with the look and with the design, then it comes to ergonomics.

Reference:  

Christian Galli, (Year 2011) Minimum Design, Ron Arad