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June 6, 2007
Apple's Industrial Designer Pre-iMac Days
Remember what Macintoshes (when they were still called that) looked like before the whole shift towards the transparent, candy-colored iMac? The man responsible was Robert Brunner.
He worked at Apple for 10 years as their lead industrial designer and it was he who found Apple's current designer, Jonathan Ive fresh out of school. It was he who saw how talented Ive was and tried not once, twice, but three times to get Ive to join Apple. When Brunner left Apple, he told Steve Jobs Jonathan Ive should head up the new department.
Robert Brunner now has his own product design company called Ammunition and I gotta say, I still see some Apple lineage in all his work. It's incredibly clean but leans towards the high-tech appliance side. Thank you Brunner for recommending Jonathan Ive.
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