Income: How Picasso inspired Apple
Picasso invested time to be concise. In his 1945-46 series The Bull he demonstrated how he gradually broke an image down to get to its most essential visual components. He began with a detailed, realistic depiction of a bull. Eleven lithographs later, just a few lines evoke a bull in the simplest terms. He is quoted as saying, “Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.”
This apparently inspired Apple, who used it in their employee training programme to demonstrate how you can deliver your message as concisely as possible through iteration. “We wanted to eliminate anything other than what was absolutely essential,” recalled Apple’s head of design. “You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.”
Art and culture can inspire in many ways, this example shows that in can inspire business and thereby contribute to the Income dimension of the 12 dimensions of wellbeing.
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Income: How Picasso inspired Apple
Picasso invested time to be concise. In his 1945-46 series The Bull he demonstrated how he gradually broke an image down to get to its most essential visual components. He began with a detailed, realistic depiction of a bull. Eleven lithographs later, just a few lines evoke a bull in the simplest terms. He is quoted as saying, “Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.”
This apparently inspired Apple, who used it in their employee training programme to demonstrate how you can deliver your message as concisely as possible through iteration. “We wanted to eliminate anything other than what was absolutely essential,” recalled Apple’s head of design. “You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.”
Art and culture can inspire in many ways, this example shows that in can inspire business and thereby contribute to the Income dimension of the 12 dimensions of wellbeing.
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Income: How Picasso inspired Apple
Picasso invested time to be concise. In his 1945-46 series The Bull he demonstrated how he gradually broke an image down to get to its most essential visual components. He began with a detailed, realistic depiction of a bull. Eleven lithographs later, just a few lines evoke a bull in the simplest terms. He is quoted as saying, “Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.”
This apparently inspired Apple, who used it in their employee training programme to demonstrate how you can deliver your message as concisely as possible through iteration. “We wanted to eliminate anything other than what was absolutely essential,” recalled Apple’s head of design. “You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.”
Art and culture can inspire in many ways, this example shows that in can inspire business and thereby contribute to the Income dimension of the 12 dimensions of wellbeing.
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