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The New Yorker’s extensive interview with Apple’s Senior Vice President of Design Sir Jonathan Ive. Gather round, Apple fanboys and fangirls:

Ive was brushing his hand across the top of his head, and talking quietly. He is impeccably solicitous, with frowns of attention and apologies for lateness or workplace untidiness, and he seems to extend this tone to everyone—including, presumably, to the crew of his twenty-seat Gulfstream GV, which he bought from Powell Jobs after her husband’s death, in 2011. He communicates with his friend Paul Smith, the British fashion designer, largely through postcards that, as Smith recently recalled, contain “words like ‘lovely,’ ‘special,’ ‘so nice’—a language that is particular to his gentleness.”

READ ON : The Shape Of Things To Come (Ian Parker, New Yorker)

(Pic Pari Dukovic, New Yorker)

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A burial concept by Italian designers Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel.

Egg shaped pods containing the deceased, buried beneath (and subsequently providing a nutrient source for) the tree of their choice. Such interments are illegal in Italy but Citelli and Bretzel are campaigning for a change in the law.

In fairness, if you can get key scenes from Invasion of The Bodysnatchers out of your head, there are worse ways to return to dust.

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This week Apple launched its beta update iOS8.3, featuring a redesigned emoji keyboard with ethnically diverse skin tones for your smileys based on the Fitzpatrick scale – a dermatology standard adopted by the Unicode Consortium.

Other changes include same-sex and childless couple icons, plus an extra 300 non-human characters.

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