Farewell to an Icon: Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
We lost a great one yesterday. Here, the design community reacts to the impact that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had on themselves and design along with a look at how magazines have covered his early death.Personally, Steve gets my vote to get into the honorary Art Directors Hall of Fame. Great AD's don't necessarily take the pictures, draw the drawings or write the words -- but they do harness all of these elements to tell a story and build a product. That's what Steve did with Apple. Steve didn't write code, design packaging, or carve aluminum. He was able to create beautiful products by identifying and evangelizing the best user experience, industrial design, graphic design and marketing in the world.
Every editor and designer has been impacted by all that Steve Jobs created. We changed the way we wrote, designed, perceived audiences, all because Steve Jobs gave us the most incredibly beautiful and functional tools to do it. The fact that he sat at the intersection of art and technology should be an example to all of us who sit at that intersection daily.--Mario Garcia, CEO/Founder, Garcia Media
