What’s Really Inside Your Mac: For One Designer, Bathing Beauties and Apple Topiary

©Federico Mauro, used with permission.

Multimedia designer Federico Mauro‘s got Mac on the brain: his Flickr stream is a constant source of quirky, Mac-related designs and spoofed ad campaigns.

His vision of what’s really inside your Mac Pro includes a feet-on-the-desk work environment that includes a mini-golf area, plus Apple logo topiary in the garden and a well-populated pool, where a couple of those bathing beauties appear topless.

Pool, garden and office, Mac style. ©Federico Mauro, used with permission.

Hit the jump for more of his designs — including the modern designer’s workbench and a game of Tetris played with Macs — plus few words about why he does it.

CoM: Tell us a little bit about what inspired you to make the Mac inside design and what the various sections represent?

FM: I liked the idea of using the inside of the Mac as if it were a microcosm. The idea was to combine a work environment with one that’s also carefree and fun –  with a strong undercurrent of irony…So inside the mac hardware is a kind of office environment, with areas separated by function, but the overriding idea that it’s a place where you can do everything… where everything is possible!

A self-portrait of Mauro (center) and his "workshop." ©Federico Mauro, used with permission.

CoM: Why do Apple products feature frequently in your designs?

FM: Apple has long been at the forefront of technology and design, changing the way we work.  Apple made the ‘tools’ that I use every day. Since the day I bought an iMac, I’ve kept buying Apple products as far as my budget will allow.

I liked the idea, then, to give symbolic meaning to a brand that’s so charming and with such wide appeal that it lends itself to just about anything!

Tetris anyone? ©Federico Mauro, used with permission.

If you’ve got a different vision of what’s really inside your Mac or what a modern workbench is really about — send them on.

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