Do you remember what your first Windows PC looked like? Of course you don’t. But I bet you remember what your first Mac looked like sat atop your desk. That’s because Apple produces such incredible and iconic designs that we can’t help but remember them. But even Apple gets its inspiration from somewhere. And it’s quite clearly from Braun.
Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder and former CEO, and Jony Ive, the company’s Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, famously admired the work of Braun designer Dieter Rams. And that admiration can often be found seeping into Apple’s own products. We mentioned not so long ago that Apple’s Podcasts app looks a lot like an old Braun tape recorder, but it goes much, much deeper than that.
In fact, a lot of Apple’s products can be likened to those from Braun. Here are some of them:
Via: Reddit
Killian Bell is a freelance writer based in the U.K. He has an interest in all things tech and also covers Android over at CultofAndroid.com. You can follow him on Twitter via @killianbell.
24 responses to “The Braun Products That Inspired Apple’s Iconic Designs [Gallery]”
With all the “Apple white knights” defending how original Ivy has been for Apple, have at least the decency to admit that Mr Rams and Braun have been a huge inspiration …. because it all looks very much the same .. and I love Apple Design … but Apple management are a bunch of hypocritical bums when they start suing for infringements on ‘their design’ .. In a European court Apple would have a hard time if Mr Rams ever would go after them .. Going after Samsung in US courts for doing what they do with Braun designs is like a ‘homegame’ They won before the case started … Infringement of technical patents is something different but also there Apple ‘borrowed’ a lot of ideas from others… Maybe time to get of their high horse as the defenders of ‘original design’ .. It all has been done before …… Ivy knows that very well as he admits his love for Rams designs ….
Most of the spurious “patents” have now been thrown out
– as I and others predicted.
Am I now an “analyst?”
I DO have a better track record than the idiots this rag quotes as nauseum.