Apple's Icon Garden in QTVR

In 1993, Apple's corporate headquarters sported an icon garden, with large colorful 2D sculptures of some MacOS icons planted in the ground amongst the greenery. The Icon Garden was a fixture on Apple's campus for many years until it was removed in 1998, officially for restoration purposes. However, rumors were that the pixelated icons didn't fit in with Apple's "Think Different" advertising campaign, the upcoming iMac release, and Mac OS X plans, and so they were never put back up.

The Icon Garden lives on at Jory's Apple Icon Garden site, where there's a virtual tour of the garden and even a Quicktime VR video of the garden. Oh, Dogcow, how we miss your moofiness.

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Source: http://icongarden.jory.org/index.html

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Snaggy

Shortly after we did this comic... http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/593.html ... we heard from several Apple folk. We were told that after Jobs returned to Apple, his orders were that the Icon Garden be removed and ground up. Yep, ground up. :(

December 03 2005 at 2:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dan

"Maybe Apple could auction them off. I'd bid!" Elements such as these are usually destroyed so that they don't end up in our hands. Apple's marketing materials from the retail stores are shipped back to the company or destroyed to prevent unlicensed use by other retailer. I imagine this would be similar.

December 03 2005 at 12:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Henry Hayes

I wonder where they are, if they're anywhere. Maybe Apple could auction them off. I'd bid!

December 03 2005 at 9:08 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply