Simply out of curiousity, what kind of money do you think the design big-wigs are pulling? I’m talking about Starck, Newson, Rashid…you know, the ones we love to hate. What kind of salaries do you think they’re making??
a lot!
a lot for their bank accounts.
but not much for their souls.
p.s. marc newsons alright!
“Jonny Ives” pulls in £1 million accodring to this:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1111276,00.html
If that’s true, it seems excessive considering that Jobs, not Ives is ultimately responsible for re-defining Apples design culture. (Jobs is even credited with designing the new iMac’s split form-factor.)
I suppose investors wouldn’t see it that way though, Design can appear to be like lightning in a bottle…
Yeah but only to a few investors, most often design is simply viewed as a necessary expense due to the lack of understanding what design actually can do.