I'm unsure why anybody would choose to work at Apple who isn't spiritually connected to their work and the people driving change.
No, I wasn't "best friends" with Steve in the same way Hiroki and he would have dinner together but his bi-weekly reviews of our design work made him somewhat of a spiritual dad to everyone on the design team & the work we did together will always make me sentimental about a chapter of my life where I was pushed to my limits & asked to step up to the plate everyday.
This iTunes icon discussion about my Dribbble post was a total trap I set to get the icon community talking about how much more work went into building iTunes outside of just icon design.
I knew they’d fall for it by claiming I didn’t design the icon. 🤭
Michael Darius absolutely did not make either the “original iTunes icon / logo for the launch of the iTunes Store” found here: https://dribbble.com/shots/4896032-Original-iTunes-Icon-Logo These icons were made by Brian Frick, a friend of mine. I’ve seen the source files when I worked at Apple myself. Zero chance Michael had any part of it or ever worked with Steve Jobs. I think even *today*, there’s no way Michael Darius could create the icons Brian made 20 years ago. No evidence to show he drew anything.
@louie I worked ON the dataset for the original iTunes Icon which was used across the whole ecosystem of icons for Mac OS X.
The universal lightsource, the icon family itself was all something I was involved in standardising across the operating system.
If my twitter feed were still available I could link you to numerous places where I tribute Brian Frick for his original work in Cinema 4d on this icon and other areas of the company.