Way before the iconic iPhone, this strange contraption was Jony Ive’s first award-winning phone design

%name Way before the iconic iPhone, this strange contraption was Jony Ive’s first award winning phone design by Authcom, Nova Scotia\s Internet and Computing Solutions Provider in Kentville, Annapolis Valley

Apple’s design guru Jony Ive, who was interviewed recently by Bloomberg Businessweek and Vogue, on Thursday night appeared in a rare on-stage interview at Vanity Fair‘s New Establishment Summit in San Francisco, where he talked about design before and after Apple, and Apple products. Ive even showed off a strange looking phone he designed for a contest decades ago, a contest that he eventually won.

“The Thing looks really weird,” Business Insider wrote. “It had a microphone that you held in front of your face.”

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