01-26-2008, 08:11 AM

Pretty nifty link I caught off of Kottke, items to build an apple store:

If you want to re-model your home in the style of an Apple store, here are links to the suppliers of the actual items they use.

The designs of the Apple stores may not be particularly original in terms of architecture, however they break new boundaries in retail design with an attention to detail that is normally only found in major public buildings. The principal inspirations for Apple’s interiors range from Norman Foster’s Mediatheque in Nimes, with its central glass staircase and I.M. Pei’s entrance to the Louvre which is the inspiration for the fifth avenue store. Although the cube itself (particularly when it was shrouded in black) is more like the Kaab at Mecca, proving that Apple is a religion after all.

Many of the fittings they use, such as Erco lighting are used by people like Pei and Foster (where I used to work) and the exterior panels are made by the same firm that provided the panels for San Francisco’s greatest modern building - the De Young Museum.

Click the link for the full article.

01-26-2008, 09:38 AM

The category here for Apple design ripoffs is worth a look too. To see who has copied their ideas. As does the ipod categories.

And according to the geek apple users there. God is the 7th most popular. There is just so many apple references in these lists. I've found way more too.