{"id":1051,"date":"2005-08-25T11:13:41","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T06:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2009-07-26T11:15:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T06:15:52","slug":"design-something-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/design-something-original\/","title":{"rendered":"Design something original"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Princeton Technology has created a hard drive that\u2019s \u201cinspired by\u201d the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macmini\/\">Mac Mini<\/a>, so much so that it really looks just like it other than the logo etched on the top and side.. not the kind of font that Steve Jobs would approve.\u00a0 Frankly, I like the silver-white-milky aesthetic of the Mini\u2019s design and Apple\u2019s glossy white image, but then I confess to loving most things sleek, silver, and minimal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1052\" title=\"princeton\" src=\"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/princeton.jpg\" alt=\"princeton\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/princeton.jpg 256w, https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/princeton-255x191.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Princeton drive (shown above<a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artcodes.com\/emedia\/uploads\/princeton.jpg','popup','width=271,height=207,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artcodes.com\/emedia\/uploads\/princeton.jpg\"><\/a>), though, is as big as the Mini but doesn\u2019t come with the cuteness factor for me. Aesthetically, the design doesn\u2019t extend or improve upon the Mini\u2019s design so much as merely imitate it.\u00a0 I know that imitation is supposed to be the sincerest form of flattery, but what every happened to originality?\u00a0 And, who\u2019s to say that Apple\u2019s design team always knows best?\u00a0 I\u2019ve been an Apple fan since I was 13 and my parent\u2019s bought my brother and I our first Apple IIe, and needless to say, this one company\u2019s product design has certainly shaped and influence my creative output for the last, hmm, twenty years.\u00a0 But, I\u2019ve also had extreme Apple rage &#8211; like when they drop last year\u2019s \u201cgreatest product ever\u201d for this year\u2019s.\u00a0 Or, when the promise of the wireless lifestyle doesn\u2019t mesh with reality (like my giant Apple cinema display monitor that I bought last year has the wrong format now for this year\u2019s laptop, unless I want to keep using the hugh power adapter that has two long cords running out of it.\u00a0 But, I digress).\u00a0 With so many design solutions possible, it would simply be refreshing to see manufacturers giving their product designers the freedom to innovate instead of imitate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1053\" title=\"052105ministainless2\" src=\"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/052105ministainless2.jpg\" alt=\"052105ministainless2\" width=\"400\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/052105ministainless2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/052105ministainless2-255x156.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Princeton Technology has created a hard drive that\u2019s \u201cinspired by\u201d the Mac Mini, so much so that it really looks just like it other than the logo etched on the top and side.. not the kind of font that Steve Jobs would approve.\u00a0 Frankly, I like the silver-white-milky aesthetic of the Mini\u2019s design and Apple\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,257,355,45],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-design","tag-minimalism","tag-originality","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}