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News: a yacht built for Apple’s late co-founder Steve Jobs has been impounded in Amsterdam following a dispute over an unpaid bill to French designer Philippe Starck.

A lawyer for Starck’s company, Ubik, said the designer was still owed €3m for his work on the vessel, which was completed after Jobs’ death last year.

Jobs and Starck had reportedly agreed on a payment of €9m for the design work – or 6% of the estimated €150m building costs. However, Jobs’ estate say the designer should receive 6% of the actual total cost, which came in at €105m.

The yacht will remain in the Port of Amsterdam until Jobs’ estate hands over the money, the lawyer told Reuters.

Earlier this year we reported on the unveiling of the 80-metre-long yacht, named Venus, which was built over six years at the Koninklijke De Vries shipyards in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands. See all our stories about Steve Jobs and all our stories about Apple.

We’ve previously reported on boats designed by Zaha Hadid, Thomas Heatherwick, Marc Newson and Studio Job – see all our stories about boats.

This year we’ve featured Starck’s stacking chair for Emeco made of discarded material and his design for an aerosol spray that lets users enjoy alcohol without the hangover.

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Designer Moon Myounghak has made a lovely effort in a very real way (conceptual on the verge of reality) in creating a case that allows the iPhone to become a touchkey phone. WIth the keys this case creates for the iPhone, you’ve got a very physical set of keys accented by a touchscreen that contains five icons across. In other words, this wouldn’t be allowed by Apple as it stands here, but with a hacked iPhone you’d have gold.

Have a peek at what this physical case with real physical buttons would bring you and your iPhone and let us know – would you do it? Do you desire the physical set of keys of yesteryear to keep the iPhone linked to the past? Or could you never, ever keep away from the full touchscreen experience?

Designer: Moon Myounghak

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News: Apple has announced that it’s shaking up its senior executive management team to better integrate hardware and software design, following claims that the company is “a little bit behind” in this area.

In addition to his role as senior vice president of industrial design, Jonathan Ive (above) will now head up a human interface department. Ive’s design team was named best design studio of the past 50 years by D&AD in September and Apple’s statement yesterday said “his incredible design aesthetic has been the driving force behind the look and feel of Apple’s products for more than a decade.”

His promotion follows Yves Behar saying in our interview at Dezeen Live last month that he has set up a user interface group at his San Francisco design studio Fuseproject to explore how to bring the disciplines of hardware and software design together. “Designing these two things as one at the same time is really a completely new, really fascinating exercise for me as a designer,” Behar told Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs. “The opportunities are there and the fact that we are not taking these opportunities as designers I think is lazy.”

In the same interview, Behar rejected the “skeuomorphic” approach adopted by companies including Apple, which has led to the grainy leather-effect Calendar with torn-off pages (below) and wood-effect bookshelf applications in its products, saying that “there’s now many companies looking at it in a way that’s quite interesting and Apple actually is a little bit behind in that area.”

Apple also announced the departure of senior vice president of iOS software Scott Forstall, who was said to be a proponent of the skeuomorphic approach within Apple. He’s to serve as adviser to CEO Tim Cook in the interim before leaving next year.

The news comes as part of a wider reshuffle of Apple’s management intended to “encourage even more collaboration between the company’s world-class hardware, software and services teams.”

Senior vice president of internet software and services Eddy Cue – whose team is already responsible for the iTunes Store, the App Store, the iBookstore and iCloud – will take on the additional responsibility of Siri and Maps. Senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi will lead development of both the iOS and OS X operating platforms, previously run by separate teams, and Bob Mansfield will lead a new department combining all the company’s teams working on wireless technologies.

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Top image: the iPad mini, launched last week

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L’artiste turc Sakir Gökçebag a imaginé avec talent une série de créations graphiques en utilisant de la nourriture, et ce sans aucune manipulation numérique. Utilisant notamment des fruits comme des pommes ou des pastèques pour créer des compositions géométriques, voici une sélection de ses œuvres.

1. Relax Shacks Just outside Boston, self-titled “carpenter, tinkerer and micro-architecturer” Derek Diedrickson builds DIY micro shelters mostly from materials found on the side of the road. Dubbed “Relax Shacks,” these transportable refuges cost less than $100 and can house the homeless or just serve as a comfy space…

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