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I’m not going to pretend it makes sense, but famous former Apple designer Jony Ive and his company LoveFrom will soon be working for Airbnb Yes, the company that mainly makes it easy for you to rent someone else’s house needs help with design, and it’s aimed at the man best known for revolutionizing consumer technology – as well as the occasional all-diamond diamond ring, a Christmas Tree that’s actually just a ‘a tree and a magazine cover without content
So if you’ve been discouraged from renting one of Airbnb’s recently offered luxury accommodations, at exorbitant prices because they have too much furniture, maybe this is just the ticket? Dude loves minimalism
Airbnb is calling this a « special collaboration » as well as a « multi-year relationship to design the next generation of Airbnb products and services, » and which I’ve also been helping to develop Airbnb’s internal design team – which apparently has suffered unrest The Information reports that three senior designers recently left the team and chief design officer Alex Schleifer has been transferred to a part-time position
Ive and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky have apparently been friends for yearsI even went so far as to write a 2015 mini-profile of the Airbnb chief for Time Magazine, praising the design of the company’s website.
I’ve still counted Apple as a customer, by the way, even though it left last November We had some thoughts back then:
Jony Ive, Apple, Airbnb, Brian Chesky, Chief Design Officer
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