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Airbnb co-founder Gebbia launches Samara Backyard product
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia has launched the inaugural product from his latest venture Samara – Backyard – which is adding small homes to people’s backyards.
Former Apple designer Sir Jony Ive joins Airbnb
Reading Time: 2 minutesWorldwide: British designer Sir Jony Ive, who oversaw the creation of the iPhone, iMac, iPod, Apple Watch and AirPods at multinational tech firm Apple, has been brought on board by Airbnb to collaborate with the home-sharing platform’s internal design team in a multi-year deal. Ive, who is a “long time friend” of Airbnb CEO Brian […]
Airbnb hires Silvanto to lead Samara design project
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Airbnb has appointed Apple industrial design group member Miklu Silvanto to lead its Samara design studio project. Dezeen is reporting that Silvanto will now head up the industrial and interaction design team at Backyard, an initiative that was launched in 2018 to explore innovative ways to design, build and share the homes of the […]