Iconic ・ Hardik Pandya

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Iconic.

A collection of images that inspire.

Steve Jobs in his Woodside home, 1982. A Tiffany lamp, a record player, and no furniture.

Steve Jobs in his home office in Palo Alto. Bookshelves, papers, and a NeXT workstation on the desk.

Steve Jobs working late at night. A bare bulb and a cluttered desk.

The original iPhone team, 2007. Phil Schiller , Tony Fadell , Jony Ive , Steve Jobs , Scott Forstall , Eddy Cue . Photographed backstage after the announcement.

Susan Kare at Apple, 1984. She designed the Macintosh icons, the Chicago typeface, and the Happy Mac. She drew them pixel by pixel on graph paper.

Dieter Rams at his desk at Braun. Behind him, the Vitsoe shelving system. He spent 40 years at the company and designed over 500 products.

Dieter Rams with one of his Braun designs. Notable products include the T 1000 radio, the RT 20, and the SK 4.

Charles and Ray Eames reviewing slides at their studio at 901 Washington Boulevard in Venice, California. They worked across furniture, architecture, film, exhibition design, and toys.

Charles and Ray Eames in their Case Study House, Pacific Palisades, early 1950s. Prefabricated steel and glass construction. The house still stands.

The Traitorous Eight at Fairchild Semiconductor, 1957. They left William Shockley's lab, founded Fairchild, and invented the integrated circuit. Members later founded Intel and AMD.

Erik Spiekermann at his letterpress workshop in Berlin. He designed Meta, FF Info, Nokia Sans, and the Berlin transit system signage.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.Neil Gaiman

Oskar Barnack at his workbench at Leitz in Wetzlar. He built a compact camera that used 35mm cinema film. He called it the Leica.

Henri Cartier-Bresson with his Leica. He wrapped the chrome body in black tape to avoid reflections. He coined the term "the decisive moment."

Jiro Ono behind the counter at Sukiyabashi Jiro. Ten seats. Three Michelin stars. He started working in restaurants at age seven and has been making sushi for over seventy years.

Anthony Bourdain eating on a plastic stool in Hanoi. He visited over 80 countries during his career as a chef, author, and television host.

Barack Obama and Anthony Bourdain eating bun cha in Hanoi, 2016. Six dollar meal, plastic stools, two Hanoi beers. The meal is now preserved behind glass at the restaurant.

Anthony Bourdain on a train in Sri Lanka.

John Muir in the Sierra Nevada. He walked over 1,000 miles to Yosemite in 1868 with almost no provisions. He called the mountains "the Range of Light" and spent decades fighting to preserve them.

Elon Musk and SpaceX engineers sorting through Falcon 1 debris after its third consecutive failure, 2008. They had enough parts and funding for one more attempt. The fourth launch succeeded.

Nikola Tesla in his Colorado Springs laboratory, 1899. The electrical discharges are real. The photograph is a double exposure. He was attempting to transmit power wirelessly.

Richard Feynman lecturing at Caltech. Chalkboards filled with orbital mechanics, drawn by hand. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work on quantum electrodynamics.

In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.John Muir

Earthrise, December 24, 1968. Photographed by William Anders from Apollo 8, the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon.

The Pale Blue Dot, February 14, 1990. Voyager 1 photographed Earth from 3.7 billion miles away. Carl Sagan requested NASA take the image.

Lunch atop a skyscraper, 1932. Eleven men eating on a steel beam 850 feet above Manhattan during the construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

Dr. Zbigniew Religa after a 23-hour heart transplant surgery in Poland, 1987. His assistant sleeps in the corner. The patient outlived him.

Amelia Earhart in front of her Lockheed Electra, 1937. First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. She disappeared over the Pacific forever, two months after this photo.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.Amelia Earhart

Stanley Kubrick and Jack Nicholson on the set of The Shining, 1980. Kubrick required Jack Nicholson to axe through 60 doors. He had Shelley Duvall perform the baseball bat scene 127 times.

Christopher Nolan behind an IMAX camera on the set of Interstellar, Iceland. The camera weighs approximately 100 pounds and shoots on 65mm film. He does not use a video monitor on set.

The docking scene from Interstellar. The Endurance is spinning at 68 RPM. Hans Zimmer composed the score on a Harrison and Harrison pipe organ. Christopher Nolan shot this sequence with miniatures, not CGI.

Pablo Picasso in his studio La Californie, Cannes, 1956. He produced over 50,000 works during his lifetime.

Henri Matisse making paper cutouts from his wheelchair, 1953. He was 83 and mostly bedridden. He called it "painting with scissors."

Francis Bacon 's studio at 7 Reece Mews, South...