A thread of products that looked weird when they launched and became iconic First, the 1995 Audi TT. The proportions and round front/back were really unusualpic.twitter.com/hWYCwtNZPb
Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him
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A thread of products that looked weird when they launched and became iconic First, the 1995 Audi TT. The proportions and round front/back were really unusualpic.twitter.com/hWYCwtNZPb
This iMac too, which lead to the floating display design that iMacs still have todaypic.twitter.com/4Ps3paPinH
I disagree with this characterization. iMac G5 felt to me like a discontinuity; like an admission that this G4 design turned out to be a dead end. There aren’t many things those two designs have in common outside of a technologically inevitable flat screen.
You don’t see a line between the G4 and G5, or the G5 to the current aluminum body design? The latter seems like mostly a material change to me. Also, thank you for disagreeing so politely!
Correct! I know it’s kind of a tricky place since I’m a way everything leads to something, but I see G5 as a quick reboot of G4, if that makes sense. No lamp base (or any other base), no swiveling arm, etc. I sometimes wonder how that line would proceed if given a chance.
To me the steps are what you’d do as an industrial designer if you had a vision of a floating display but couldn’t get there for a few years
G4: Put the display on an arm and the cpu (too big to mount of the display) on a base. G5: Combine the cpu (still pretty big) and the display G6+: Finally thin! Edge to edge display! Refine refine refine
My theory is now that perhaps they designed G4 and G5 at the same time? They couldn’t wait for G5 tech, and G3 was aging. Maybe we’ll learn one day. :·)
To me, for some reason, G4 resembles the Macintosh Portable?
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