The week last Apple published a luxury book centered in them last twenty years of the design of products of the company and whose price woke up some that another suspicion: 199 euros for the size medium and 299 euros for the edition of greater size.
It certain is that the book has a PT fantastic and its design and manufacturing, as always, has been careful to the more minimum detail but, be francs, say that the price is abusive is stay is short. Not everything is worth, Apple. If you are of that think as I but to the same time you like it idea embodied by Apple, there is another title much more affordable that probably you goes to love: Iconic: to Photographic Tribute to Apple Innovation.
Iconic: to Photographic Tribute to Apple Innovation, in Spanish, “Iconic: A tribute photographic to the innovation of Apple”, not arrives until the Apple Pencil released by the company in 2015 as the first edition was posted in the year 2013 but its price is a more than interesting alternative: 59 euros.
“Iconic” is a work made by Jonathan Zufi, a fan of Apple, and has the history of them products of the company through photographs booting in the computer Apple I of 1976 and coming to the iPad mini in 2012.
Although not is is of something official, the book has with an enthusiastic foreword supposedly made by Steve Wozniak:
The beauty of the design that Apple is known for deserves the photography beautiful, and that is what Jonathan us has given. Within these pages, Jonathan us has given a gift thoughtful and artistic to the fans and employees of Apple: photographs of them products of Apple-from the hardware to the packaging-something that never before had seen. The passion of Jonathan by this product is reflected in each page, and each one honors the work hard of each employee and collaborator that has last through the doors of Apple.
He book Iconic: A tribute photo to the innovation of Apple, is presents in a format of top hard with a total of 340 pages and some dimensions similar to the edition of size medium of “Designed by Apple in California”, whose price is of 199 euros.
There are two editions, as it can see in the image of header. The Classic Edition, which includes the book only, and the Classic Plus Edition, which includes a dust jacket or cover in black. The Classic Edition is having a cost of only 59 euros being, at least for the moment, the only one for sale at Amazon.
As points out Ben Lovejoy at 9to5Mac, the approach that presents this work is very similar to the book recently released by Apple, i.e., pictures to full-page, some of them double-page, trying to show and emphasize the beauty of the designs of the Apple products. But there are also differences. An of them more notable is that, while the book of Apple not offers almost text, Iconic: A tribute photo to the innovation of Apple, cuanta with a great amount of appointments of Steve Jobs, Jony Ive and others people that have formed part of the history of the company and that help to understand best the message that is want to transmit with them images.
Another difference is that Iconic starts in the start of the history of Apple, in contrast with the book official that is starts with the arrival of Jony Ive and the iMac of first generation, by what perhaps this work can provide a vision more complete to the history of the evolution of the design of Apple.
Lovejoy points also that “the quality of the photography is of first class, and on par with the book of Apple”, although the quality of the finished not is as impressive as for the book official.
Do not know you but, to difference of the work official of Apple, this it has aroused my interest. In these moments is located in pre-sales but you can acquire it already in Amazon.
