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I wouldn‘t call an iPhone a piece of art though.

• atticmanatee 8y ago
  Art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
• readhn 8y ago
  it is though. steve jobs treated it and designed it as functional art. unlike most other manufacturers. he did borrow/utilize many ideas from german artists and industrial designers (bauhaus/german modernism/braun design etc.). so like it or not i would say that iphone is a piece of art that others loved and copied. (which is good and completely natural).
• mattkevan 8y ago
  The Design Museum in London has pretty much everything Jony Ive ever designed in their permanent collection. They certainly are art in this context.* And I'd argue that Apple are one of the few tech companies that genuinely view their products as art objects, as well as being boxes of mass-produced consumer technology. * There's a wider question about whether the mere act of displaying something in a gallery makes it art, but its one that many fine art postgrads haven't been able to get to the bottom of yet :)
  • flanban 8y ago
    I would argue that the fact it's in a design museum rather than an art museum makes it design in that context. Speaking very broadly: Designers manifest other people's ideas for money. Art is more when you bring your own ideas into the world because you want to.