“…like Pixar’s chief creative officer and Toy Story director John Lasseter.
“I’m really influenced by craftsmen who are artists that really understood the technical aspects of their medium,” he said. “They understood how to leverage that for emotion.” "
And of course Jony Ive of Apple is known to be influenced by Braun and often quotes Dieter Rams’s principles of design. I think you call that, “implying that his work is ‘wholly original’”? Get real. How do you even have the arrogance to state what most other tech companies believe when your head is this far up Microsoft’s behind? Clearly you just look for any reason to toot MS’s horn.