Six key people who are likely to direct Apple's car making

I am aiming for debut in 2020Apple's automobile development project said "TitanThere are also views that there are a maximum of 1000 staff involved. Although it is unknown how much development capacity is actually achieved due to the challenge to the automobile industry which has not been related at all in the past, if you look at key people who are "visionary" involved in the project, The flow is said to be quite concrete.

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◆ Jonathan Ive(Jonathan Ive)
Mr. Ive, senior vice president of Apple's industrial design group, is known to be a genuine car lover. Actually, the cause of Mr. Ive's involvement in the design world was caused by the car, in 2014Interview at TIME magazineIt is said that the love for the car grew and began to become a designer.


Also, Mr. Ive said in another interview "Aston Martin · DB 4And old "Bentley"Vintage cars and other things like taste, and even they themselves have an orange colorFiat 500YaLand Rover Discovery, Also known as "crab eye"Austin Healey Sprite"We have revealed that we own a vehicle such as.

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◆ Mark · Newson(Marc Newson)
Newson who joined Apple in 2014 was a person who had experience in designing cars in the past. At the 1999 Tokyo Motor Show, Ford's concept car "021CThere was also something that I had created and displayed.


"021 C" named from the color code of Pantone color is a concept car modeled on a four-seater sedan, a vehicle characterized by a flat cigar body and a glass area (glass part) riding on it.

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Although it was 021C created as a concept car, it was an ambitious design with innovative ideas including a rear drawer trunk which is different from the usual one. It's no wonder that even Apple's car design will incorporate such an interesting idea.


◆ Steve Zadeski(Steve Zadesky)
Mr. Zadesky, senior vice president of product design involved in designing iPods and iPhones in the past, is also a member of project Titan. As with Mr. Newson, he has a background in Ford, and his enrollment period was from 1996 to 1999.


Mr. Newson overlaps with the time when he created 021C, but it is even more interesting that Mr. Zadesky had a background in Ford's production department. His career may be used because the supply chain of a scale that is not comparable with smartphones is required for the production of automobiles.

◆ Johann Jung Virus(Johann Jungwirth)
Mr. Jung Wils joined Apple in September 2014, but until then he has a career working at Mercedes-Benz research and development facility in California. Apple is Jung Willis, who is in the position of "Director of Mac Systems Engineering" (director of Mac system engineering), but the actual work is thought to be totally different things.


Its job is, of course, automobile development making full use of Mr. Jung Will's career. In Mercedes I was engaged in the concept car "F105" in the near future, especially because this car is based on automatic driving in mind, it also matches the direction of development aimed at by Apple It seems to be said.


◆ Julien Hönig(Julian Hönig)
Mr. Hörnig, who is a designer at Apple, also has a relationship with the car industry in the past. Before joining Apple in 2010, he said that he was in charge of designing for one year at Lamborghini, a super car maker.


Prior to joining Lamborghini, I was involved in the design of the near future car "Audi RSQ" who was enrolled in Audi and appeared in the movie "I, Robot", and in addition to the rear flip-up butterfly door and back and forth I was developing the concept of a tire to proceed.

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◆ Aaron · von = Minden(Aaron Von Minden)
Like Mr. Hönig, Mr. von Minden, who is a designer at Apple, also has a career in the car industry. Mr. Mr. who was enrolled at BMW, a concept car that changes the shape freely with a cloth outer plate "Gina(Gina) "was involved in the creation of.

BMW's Future Car Gina Light Visionary HD - YouTube


Here is the exterior of the body of Gina. It is a concept car based on a two-seater open car.


A stretchy material is used for the outer plate, and it is possible to freely change the design. The opening and closing of the door also makes wrinkles come to this way.


Gina looks like a living creature. For example, if you start Gina from a state without power, ...


First of all the light portion corresponding to "eyes" opened.


And the dazzling lights were lit to produce a sharp eye which aimed at the prey.


Of course these are past design studies, so they will not be used directly by Apple's Titan. However, it seems to be said that it can be said that we can not help expecting what kinds of vehicles Apple with such key members are developing.