Jonathan Ive, the English Designer and the Senior Vice President of Design for Apple, Inc lately revealed in one of his very rare interviews that during a dinner party in New York, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" director J.J. Abrams did asked for a piece of advice on how he could enhanced the appearance of the lightsaber in the upcoming Star Wars film series.
That fresh input from could have inspired the "upfront" and "jagged" look of the lightsaber as the main hilt now partly projects an energy beam at both right angles of which didn't really worked for some fans.
"It was just a conversation," he said. "I thought it would be interesting if it were less precise, and just a little bit more spitty," Ive told The New Yorker when asked for his input on the weapon. Ive went on to suggest that a lightsaber should be "more analog and more primitive, and I think, in that way, somehow more ominous."
"The Force Awakens" trailer with the new lightsaber design did awaken a certain part of dark side from the "Star Wars" Universe fan base. Abrams talked about the message, that people had sent him during an earlier interview with Collider.
"What's been funny is, since the lightsaber's come out, I cannot tell you how many contradictory emails I have received from people who have both defended it with unbelievably detailed graphics...I've gotten things that are nuts, and I've gotten people who've shown how it'll kill you and how it doesn't make any sense."
Meanwhile, the 44-year-old British designer also created a white polysterene box that housed a book by Paul Smith in 2001. He also helped in the development of certain key products for the Project Red Auction with Marc Newson, who also was beneficial in the design for the Apple Watch. He was also involved in the conception of Eve, the female robot in the spage-age animated love story film, Wall-E.
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