Steve Jobs Reading List
Monday, October 24, 2011, Walter Isaacson’s authorized Biography called Steve Jobs
The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
“Secrets of the Little Blue Box”
King Lear (Penguin Shakespeare)
Moby Dick (Oxford World’s Classics)
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
Diet for a Small Planet (20th Anniversary Edition)
Steve Jobs Silhouette
I spent a couple hours making this Steve Jobs Silhouette look good enough to work against a dark background. Sharing it might save another artists some time.
Steve Jobs Silhouette (transparent .png file)
The Steve Jobs Look: His Mock Turtlenecks
When someone I admire passes away, I want to know more about what I may have missed while they were alive. When Steve Jobs died, I wanted to know what it would take to dress like him. The Levi 501s and New Balance sneakers don’t need to be hunted down. His socks and underwear are non of my business. Maybe non of this is, but the socks and underwear are CLEARLY non of my business. What remains is that black mock turtleneck and those round glasses.
After doing some research, it looks like the glasses are Lunor Ideal I 380s. That’s a German brand and the frames cost about $600. One day, I’ll have a pair.
People guessed the mock turtleneck wrong. People were certain he wore a cotton & microfiber blend shirt made by St. Croix. St. Croix has encouraged the myth. They say their shirt chosen by Steve has seen an almost 100% increase in sales since we lost Steve. They’re even donating money to cancer research when people buy the shirts. That’s probably a good karma move because in the soon to be released authorized Steve Jobs biography, Steve tells the author, Walter Isaacson, his mock turtlenecks are custom made by designer Issey Miyake. Here’s the story as reported by Gawker:
Read More“On a trip to Japan in the early 1980s, Jobs asked Sony’s chairman Akio Morita why everyone in the company’s factories wore uniforms. He told Jobs that after the war, no one had any clothes, and companies like Sony had to give their workers something to wear each day. Over the years, the uniforms developed their own signatures styles, especially at companies such as Sony, and it became a way of bonding workers to the company. “I decided that I wanted that type of bonding for Apple,” Jobs recalled.
Sony, with its appreciation for style, had gotten the famous designer Issey Miyake to create its uniform. It was a jacket made of rip-stop nylon with sleeves that could unzip to make it a vest. So Jobs called Issey Miyake and asked him to design a vest for Apple, Jobs recalled, “I came back with some samples and told everyone it would great if we would all wear these vests. Oh man, did I get booed off the stage. Everybody hated the idea.”
In the process, however, he became friends with Miyake and would visit him regularly. He also came to like the idea of having a uniform for himself, both because of its daily convenience (the rationale he claimed) and its ability to convey a signature style. “So I asked Issey to make me some of his black turtlenecks that I liked, and he made me like a hundred of them.” Jobs noticed my surprise when he told this story, so he showed them stacked up in the closet. “That’s what I wear,” he said. “I have enough to last for the rest of my life.”