"Get rid of anything that isn't absolutely essential"

"Get rid of anything that isn't absolutely essential"

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Intro

Jonathan Ive, the greatest industrial designer of all time, in my opinion, but you might of not heard of him so I'll shed a little light on him. At the moment he is Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. so all those iPods, iPhones and Macs you have seen around are his design. He said once, "Get rid of anything that isn't absolutely essential" I love this quote, in my past writing I have always ran out of "stuff" to fill my paper so I have added useless "stuff" to fill it, but this quote has inspired me to get rid of that and only use what is "absolutely essential". I guess my writing has been like the out side of an iPhone I have left out what is inside the phone that makes it useable, my writing has looked good from a distance, but up close you can see there is nothing good in it. So if as you are reading my writing and it has parts that are of no use and are just a filler leave a comment for me so I can change it, after all I can't create an iPad in one night and have it be ready for retail.

I hope that I can take my writing closer to the level of skill that Jony Ive has for his design, but for me to do that I will need your help to get it all right, after all Jony has his assistants helping him with ideas and input.

Now that I have established a cause for this blog now to tell a little about me. I am in a creative writing class at Lone Peak High School and that is the reason I have this blog. As you can maybe tell I am a fanatic Mac user, you can ask just about any question about Apple I can give you an answer. I love a good action or comedy movie with a good snack like popcorn or twizzlers. The early spring when the world is starting to turn green and the tulips are just starting to bloom is the best time of the year, it is a new beginning in the long life of school a way to feel refreshed with out doing anything but taking the time to acknowledge the beauty of it.

6 comments:

  1. Why Apple and not Microsoft? They are both great companies and I just want to know why you made that choice.

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  2. I love Mac OS, I use both Mac OS and Windows on a daily basis and know my way around both quite well and I love the ease and flow of Mac OS a lot more. Apple is a clean simple uncluttered style in both the OS and physical design of there products and I love that style. There are also many other things about Apple that I like more than Microsoft.

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  3. Jonathan Ive, I love this post. When you started comparing your writing to an iPhone, I must say for a half a second I thought that was kinda nerdy... but then when I kept reading, I realized it was a REALLY good analogy. I really enjoyed this post, keep up the good work. Really, great job. :)

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  4. I loved what you said at the very end about spring. I feel the same way about spring, I love it! It is very cool to me to find things to relate to within these blogs, things that people don't always talk about aloud.

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  5. so what do you think about the iPad 2 then?

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  6. Its nice to put it mildly, the only thing I would have improved would be a higher resolution screen.

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