Robert Gourley
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| Born | Robert David Gourley February 19, 1969 San Gabriel, California, U.S. |
| 💼 Occupation | Designer, Creative Strategist |
| 📆 Years active | 1995–present |
Robert Gourley (born February 19, 1969) is an American designer, best known for designing the first Apple Inc website.[1] He joined Apple Inc in 1997 as a graphic designer immediately after Steve Jobs returned to the company as interim CEO.[2] Using early HTML, [3] Robert designed the website, marketing materials and contributed design for the first online Apple Store.
Early life
Gourley was born in San Gabriel, California on February 19, 1969. He started programming at 8 years old when his parents gave him a TRS-80 Color Computer.
Career
After leaving Apple, Robert joined Frog Design to help open their San Francisco office. His work at Frog was featured in the book "Form Follows Emotion"[4] as well as Frog's print periodical. Robert founded two design agencies; the first was Flaregun - a digital design agency located in San Francisco that focused on website design. His second agency, Mojave, worked with companies such as National Geographic and Apple iTunes.[5] Since 2015, Robert has been the VP of Design for Axure in San Diego.[6]
Personal life
Gourley lives in San Diego with his wife and children.
Patents
US 10592589 "Multi-view masters for graphical designs."
References
- ↑ "What browsing Apple.com was like in 1997". Cult of Mac. 2015-03-18. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
- ↑ "Jobs named interim Apple CEO". cnet. 1997-09-16. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
- ↑ "HTML 3.2 Reference Specification". World Wide Web Consortium. January 14, 1997. Retrieved November 16, 2008.
- ↑ Sweet, Fay (1999). Frog : form follows emotion (in português). London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-01917-7. OCLC 40646917. Search this book on
- ↑ "Sortfolio: Mojave Interactive, San Francisco". Sortfolio. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
- ↑ "Robert Gourley". Retrieved November 16, 2008.
External links
- RobertGourleyDesign.com
- Robert Gourley on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 23: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Robert Gourley on Instagram
- Robert Gourley on Dribbble
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