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An Apple photo book... for $300?!?!
For the die-hardiest of die-hardiest of die-hard Apple fans, comes the $300 Apple photo book: a book... selling for $300 for 450 photos of Apple products.
The link says it all. And more. Soooo much more.
Yup.
Yupper!
Just in time for Christmas, when you may just have too much money in your pocket.
Yup.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/15/13635788/apple-coffee-table-book-products-images
Ooooorrrrr...... give the money to Soylentnews? or to me, heh heh?
Apple Releases Book of Product Photos for $200-300
Do you like the smooth, curvy rectangles and sleek designs of Apple products? Now you can have all of them on your coffee table:
Apple today announced the release of a new hardbound book chronicling 20 years of Apple's design, expressed through 450 photographs of past and current Apple products. "Designed by Apple in California," which covers products from 1998's iMac to 2015's Apple Pencil, also documents the materials and techniques used by Apple's design team over two decades of innovation.
The book is dedicated to the memory of Steve Jobs.
It makes the perfect holiday gift for the Apple lover in your life. And it even comes printed on "special paper":
The heavily illustrated book looks at Apple products from 1998's iMac to 2015's Apple Pencil. It documents the materials and techniques that Apple's designers used to make them. Photographer, Andrew Zuckerman, took the images. The title is dedicated to Steve Jobs. And it is, "printed on specially milled, custom-dyed paper with gilded matte silver edges, using eight color separations and low-ghost ink," Apple states. Special. Paper.
"The idea of genuinely trying to make something great for humanity was Steve's motivation from the beginning, and it remains both our ideal and our goal as Apple looks to the future," said Jony Ive, Apple's chief design officer (interestingly, Apple now seems to like to make job titles lower case).
Also at The Verge.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @09:09PM
For that price I'd want gold
Do you even know what the word "gilded" means? Do you know what anything means? Of course you don't.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @11:33PM
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @02:17AM
You can see in the photos that whiteish edges, not yellowish. So probably gilded verb was used by extension, as in thin coat of silver applied, instead of the typical gold coat meaning of gilded. The same than some books in this http://www.cpsphotography.com/renlibrary.htm [cpsphotography.com] (also "black gilded edges"... oh, the horror, not gold!).
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday November 17 2016, @03:06PM
The term gilding covers a number of decorative techniques for applying fine gold leaf or powder to solid surfaces such as wood, stone, or metal to give a thin coating of gold. A gilded object is also described as "gilt". Where metal is gilded, it was traditionally silver in the West, to make silver-gilt (or vermeil) objects, but gilt-bronze is commonly used in China, and also called ormolu if it is Western.
Vermeil (/ˈvɜːrmɪl/ or /vərˈmeɪ/; French: [vɛʁˈmɛj]) is an alternative for the usual term silver-gilt, or silver plated or gilt with gold. Vermeil pieces appear to be gold but are much cheaper and lighter than solid gold.
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The White House has a collection of vermeil tableware kept on display (when not in use) in the Vermeil Room.
So technically correct, but in the most jackass way possible.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"