AppleMasters
AppleMasters was a group of selected people from all over the world who used and endorsed the Apple Macintosh computer. According to Apple, AppleMasters were "an international group of educators, artists, designers, writers, producers, architects, inventors, scientists, business leaders, humanitarians, musicians, athletes and others who think different."[1] As part of Apple's "Think Different" advertising campaign, Apple would use the members in various forms of advertising - including company events and commercials. In return, Apple would reimburse the members with free computers and other Apple branded equipment. The more active members included Sinbad, Herbie Hancock, James Woods, Gregory Hines, and Bryan Adams.[2]
Duration of the program
The AppleMasters program was launched in 1996. The program was managed globally by Kanwal Sharma[3] Based on findings at archive.org's WayBackMachine, Apple removed the program from their web site on or before August 7, 2002.[4]
During the program's life, the following people were members of AppleMasters:
- Bryan Adams
- Douglas Adams
- Charly Alberti
- John A. Alonzo
- Garth Ancier
- Dana Atchley
- Lauren Bacall
- Muhammad Ali
- Howard Binghaml
- Greg Gorman
- Michael Backes[5]
- John Perry Barlow
- Richard Benson
- John Benson
- Peter Bergman
- Howard L. Bingham
- Sir Chris Bonington
- Russell Preston Brown
- Amy Chow
- Tom Clancy
- John Cleese
- Peter Cochrane
- Michael Crichton
- Paul Davis
- Richard Dawkins
- Andrew Denton
- Richard Dreyfuss
- Trevor Flett[6]
- Harrison Ford
- Louis Fishauf[7]
- Peter Gabriel
- Peter Garrett
- Dr Murray Gell-Mann
- Terry Gilliam
- Dr Donald A. Glaser
- Zaha M. Hadid[8]
- Herbie Hancock
- Paul Hawken
- Richard Henderson
- Stephen Heppell
- Louis Herman and Elele
- Gregory Hines
- David Hirschfelder
- Damien Hirst
- Takenobu Igarashi[9]
- Mae Jemison
- Michael Kamen
- Kathleen Kennedy
- John Knoll
- Karl Kruszelnicki
- Donald Laub
- Meave Leakey
- Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Amory and Hunder Lovins
- Jim Ludtke
- Harry Marks
- David Mash
- Sam Mendes
- James Morrison
- Sydney Pollack
- Seymour Powell[10]
- Stephanie Powell[11]
- Sir David Puttnam
- Tom Robinson
- Sinbad
- Joyce Tenneson
- Fiorella Terenzi
- Jerry Uelsmann
- Tracey Ullman
- James Woods
References
- ↑ Apple Inc's AppleMasters site (defunct) Archived August 3, 2004, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Apple Developer Connection
- ↑ Apple launches AppleMasters in Asia
- ↑ AppleMasters archive on Internet Archive
- ↑ "Michael Backes". Infsec.cs.uni-sb.de. Archived from the original on February 9, 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
- ↑ http://artouche.com/html/framesets/main/main-aarti.htm
- ↑ "LOUIS FISHAUF | art direction | graphic design | illustration". Fishauf.com. 1998-01-25. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
- ↑ "Zaha Hadid Architects". Zaha-hadid.com. Archived from the original on 20 June 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
- ↑ "Takenobu Igarashi". Igarashistudio.com. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
- ↑ "Product Designers and Product Design consultants". Seymourpowell. Archived from the original on 22 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0694320/