Apple’s tightly-knit industrial design group loses another longtime member
In what could be described as another shakeup to Apple’s vaunted design team, Apple’s longtime industrial designer Christopher Stringer has left the company. He was with the iPhone maker for 21 years. About a year ago, Danny Coster, another member of Apple’s elite industrial design team, left the Cupertino firm for greener pastures at GoPro.
According to a paywall’d article by The Information, the design team at Apple has gone through multiple changes in the last two years as Jonathan Ive tepped back from running the team, with Richard Howarth taking over managing the team on a day-to-day basis.
Working alongside Jony Ive for many years, Stringer was heavily involved in the first iPhones and iPads. It wasn’t immediately clear where he might be going after Apple.
Apple’s promotional video showcasing the “Designed by Apple in California” coffee table book offers a unique look at its design studio and some of the tools they use to prototype future gadgets.
Stringer’s name is listed on many Apple patents.
More important, he was a key witness in the monster Apple v. Samsung trial. Stringer testified about Apple’s painstaking industrial design process, revealing publicly for the first time that Apple prototyped curved-glass iPhones in the past and even contemplated an iPhone with an all-aluminum enclosure akin to iPods.
Source: The Information
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