Melby The Zen of Steve Jobs

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-29528-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 80 Seiten, E-Book

An illustrated depiction of Steve Jobs' friendship with Zen Buddhist Kobun Chino Otogawa and the impact it had on Jobs' career
Apple cofounder Steve Jobs (1955-2011) had such an enormous impact on so many people that his life often took on aspects of myth. But much of his success was due to collaboration with designers, engineers and thinkers. The Zen of Steve Jobs tells the story of Jobs' relationship with one such person: Kobun Chino Otogawa.
Kobun was a Zen Buddhist priest who emigrated to the U.S. from Japan in the early 1970s. He was an innovator, lacked appreciation for rules and was passionate about art and design. Kobun was to Buddhism as Jobs was to the computer business: a renegade and maverick. It wasn't long before the two became friends--a relationship that was not built to last.
This graphic book is a reimagining of that friendship. The story moves back and forward in time, from the 1970s to 2011, but centers on the period after Jobs' exile from Apple in 1985 when he took up intensive study with Kobun. Their time together was integral to the big leaps that Apple took later on with its product design and business strategy.
Told using stripped down dialogue and bold calligraphic panels, The Zen of Steve Jobs explores how Jobs might have honed his design aesthetic via Eastern religion before choosing to identify only what he needs and leave the rest behind.

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Melby, Caleb

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Über Autor(innen)

Caleb Melby is a Forbes contributor and a native of Mankato,Minnesota, a town known as the site of the nation's largest masshanging. It is otherwise a very nice place. Prior to writing TheZen of Steve Jobs, Caleb wrote for the Chicago Tribuneand the Times of South Africa. He currently lives in avariety of places with no wives and no children.
Since its founding in 1917, Forbes has been providinginsights and information that ensure the success of those who arededicated to the spirit of free enterprise. Its flagshippublications, Forbes and Forbes Asia, reach a worldwide audience ofmore than 6 million readers and its website, Forbes.com--theleading business site on the Web--attracts an audience thataverages more than 21 million people per month. Forbes alsopublishes ForbesLife magazine and licensed editions in morethan 18 countries around the world.
JESS3 is a world-renowned creative agency thatspecializes in data visualization. Through the mastery ofillustration, information design, animation, and engineering, JESS3brings beauty to complex concepts, issues, and data sets. Inaddition to working with Forbes on The Zen of Steve Jobs, JESS3 isdedicated to the craft of storytelling for vanguard brands thatinclude Google, Nike, Intel, MTV, Twitter, Samsung, Facebook, andNASA. JESS3 also has a dedicated labs division, which funds andlaunches its own products and initiatives.