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Interbrand has released its Best Global Brands 2012.
Coca-Cola keeps the top spot, Apple makes a big leap, and Blackberry takes a mighty tumble.
Take a look at the Interbrand archives to compare.
New iPhone prototypes have been released due to the Samsung vs. Apple trial. Too bad they were all rejected during the design process, some nice ones in there!
Via The Verge
A new ad salutes the “normal ones” in defiance of Apple’s famous “crazy ones” campaign. Papercut, a DVD, book and magazine shop in Stockholm, sells itself as the antidote to a boring life. “Because when you’re ordinary, you need something out of the ordinary.”
Today the news brings word of another wild patent from Apple – this time it’s packaging related. This patent titled “Active Electronic Media Packaging” shows Apple is interested in wirelessly charging its devices…while still on shelves. This patent would also allow Apple to transmit data (like softwareupdates) and display imagery on screens (advertising?).
Apple has big eyes for packaging, according to their patent file: “Although typical packaging for an electronic media device may be designed to adequately protect the device from shock or damage, the packaging is extremely limited in other respects.
For example, the ability to fully view or interact with the electronic media device while still inside the packaging is severely limited in most packaging designs. Although unobtrusive packaging designs have been developed, these designs typically do not allow electronic media devices to be interacted with while inside the packaging.”
For now it’s just a cool idea, but we think their long-term thinking is right on track.
Via VentureBeat
Sir Jonathan Ive, Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design
The Queen of England appreciates good design! Jonathan Ive, Apple’s head of design, has been awarded a knighthood. http://bbc.in/w1aCSb
An interface must be intuitive to be successful. Meet the woman who gave complex function a friendly facelift through her icon designs. http://bit.ly/tHkV7n
Here are the six pillars of Steve Jobs’s design philosophy which permeated through every product Apple created. http://bit.ly/sawGIm
Apple’s tech innovation doesn’t end at their products. The 5th Ave Cube Apple store will replace its 90 glass panes with just 15 which come together via proprietary connectors embedded in the glass itself rather than external clips. http://bit.ly/oQpCmf
“I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying ‘no’ to 1,000 things.” -Steve Jobs
