jaymug:

Original Apple iPhone 1983 - designer Hartmut Esslinger, the same guy who made the Apple IIc computer, came up with this phone/tablet prototype.

“good bye”

above Macintosh image was enlarged from the back cover of Bloomberg Businessweek’s magazine issue fully dedicated to Steve Jobs. (via design:related)

Google’s homepage connects to Apple to honor the life of Steve Jobs

R.I.P Steve Jobs

(above photo via Wired)

As Steve Jobs officially resigns as Apple’s CEO, I’m less interested in reading about the succession plan for Apple and the percentage the company’s stock is dropping only hours after reading his letter.

To remember just how much innovation Steve Jobs contributed to the world of technology and design, the Wall Street Journal has pulled together images in their feature Personal Media Pioneer: Steve Jobs. Gizmodo highlights The Life of Steve Jobs—So Far with old photographs, ads, and a lengthly timeline. In 1986, “Jobs buys Pixar out of Lucasfilm’s computer graphics group for a discounted price of $10m—$5m of which will be used for operations—so that Lucas could finance his divorce without selling Star Wars stock.”

In the 1970s, Jobs also worked at Atari as a technician. PodTech has an interesting podcast with Atari’s co-founder about the experience of working with Steve Jobs.

(above photo c. early 1980s)

pages with Matt Groening’s illustrations for an old Student’s Guide for Apple 

“Letterpress printing has officially gone mainstream…”
(via @designrelated)

redesignrelated:

iTunes logo icon redesign

At the September 1, 2010 Apple Special Music Event, Steve Jobs unveils iTunes 10, complete with a redesign and implementation of the new social network Ping. Since CDs are less relevant these days, Apple decided it was time to revisit their original logo design for iTunes.

Of all the great announcements coming out of the presentation, we found this logo/icon redesign the least exciting.

update: The initial images we posted showed screen captures from Steve Jobs’ keynote presentation. The circle on the new logo looked elongated and not symmetrical. We thought it was a possibility it looked slightly off because of on-screen distortion. After we downloaded iTunes 10 we confirmed the the variation of the logo shown at the event was not a fully accurate representation and we removed the graphic. The above logo is taken directly from the application, not a blown out and distorted image from a presentation.)

“The Times does info-graphics for iPads” designed by Applied Works
(thoughts via Creative Review, link for iTunes download)

“A Brief History of Computer Icons” (above c. 1984 via Psdtuts+)

“Infographic of the Day: The iPad Competes With Just About Everyone”
(first discovered via Fast Company, designed by Section Design for Courier Japon)

The highly anticipated Wired magazine iPad app finally launches.

“The irony that Wired, a magazine founded to chronicle the digital revolution, has traditionally come to you each month on the smooshed atoms of dead trees is not lost on us. Let’s just say the medium is not always the message…”
—letter from Chris Anderson

(click here for download link)

Op-ed chart in The New York Times: “How Green is My iPad?”
(above illustration by Jenny Mörtsell)