Why Apple uses Picassos Bull to teach its minimalist design principles
Picassos series of sketches of a bull gradually strip the animals form down to nothing but a few lines just like Apple wants to do with its products
The farmyard might be the last place you would expect the designers of Apples slick, minimalist products to go for inspiration. But aspiring trainees are being told to look at bulls, according to information leaked from the Apple University, the secret training college where new disciples are inducted in the ways of Jobs.
These arent any old bulls, though, but bulls drawn by Picasso specifically The Bull, his series of 11 lithographs that famously depict the beast in various stages of abstraction. Like a step-by-step guide to How to Draw Like Picasso, he whittles the creature down from a heavy ink drawing to the bare essentials, dissecting the animals great bulk with expressive contours, like a butcher marks out his cuts. In the end, it is pared down to just a handful of wispy lines, which still somehow speak of bullness.
SOURCE: Art and design | The Guardian – Read entire story here.