How calligraphy shaped Steve Jobs and Apple’s typographic legacy - TypeRoom
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How calligraphy shaped Steve Jobs and Apple’s typographic legacy - TypeRoom
So much has been written about Steve, and I don’t recognise my friend in much of it,” Ive said. “Yes, he had a surgically precise opinion. Yes, it could sting. But he was so clever. His ideas were bold and magnificent. And when the ideas didn’t come, he decided to believe we would eventually make something great. And, oh, the joy of getting there!”
I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
JamesClear.com • "2005 Stanford Commencement Address"
Steve audited Shakespeare, poetry, dance, and calligraphy. I was baffled he didn’t take more science and math, because that’s what he was good at and what Reed was known for. It’s remarkable to me that he followed his instinct to develop himself through the arts. He must have told me twenty times that he loved his dance class. “I’m not very good,”
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