4 Ways You Can Celebrate the Life of Steve Jobs this Christmas

By Sean Lim

It is the holiday season once again.

For those who rushed to the departmental stores weeks away from December 25 to do Christmas shopping, good for you. The stockings are stuffed, the gifts are wrapped and the menu for the big Christmas dinner has already been well prepared ahead of time.

Then there are those like me – people who put off all Christmas related activities to the eleventh hour, hoping that miraculously all the shopping and gifting would be taken care of by itself. 

Sadly, we don’t live in a parallel universe. In our universe, if we want something done, we need to step out and take action. Now since we are on the topic of people who “step out and take action”, one revolutionary technological hero is the late Silicon Valley bigwig Steve Jobs.

We all know who Steve Jobs is. This holiday season, forget the boring old bells and candy canes, here’s two ways in which you can employ Mr. Jobs on your Christmas trees.  

1. Do-It-Yourself Steve Jobs box figurine  

 

Before assembly...

Upon downloading the picture, print it out as you would normally for any document. Your finished assembled product should bare resemblance to this:

 

The finished product!

2. Young Steve Jobs’ Time magazine cover

Young Steve with the first Apple Macintosh

2011 was the last and final time Steve Jobs appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Now you can also use the cover as a Christmas tree ornament in your very own home. 

Still unconvinced on whether a Steve Jobs’ inspired Christmas tree can actually work? Take a look at this Christmas tree designed by the people at AVL Moving Systems as their tribute to Steve.

 

Apart from employing Steve Jobs onto your Christmas trees this year, consider these two other memorabilia to add to your collection.

3. “Here’s To The Crazy Ones” poster

 

In 1997, Apple ran its “Think Different” advertising campaign. The campaign centered on historical figures such as Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King and Muhammad Ali. It provoked consumers to consider switching to or buying an Apple product as opposed to a PC. The campaign itself turned out to be an enormous success, winning awards including the 1998 Emmy Award for Best Commercial and the 2000 Grand Effie Award for most effective campaign in America.   

Here’s an excerpt from the copy:

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. 

The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.”

Sadly, the poster is no longer for sale. The best alternative would be to download the image and print it out for framing onto your wall. 

4. Steve Jobs' biography

Here’s a piece of trivia you might not have known: the biography was originally titled iSteve: The Book of Jobs. However, official biographer Walter Isaacson’s wife and daughter thought that the title was “too cutesy”; hence the book was renamed to just Steve Jobs. There was nothing “cutesy” about the sales figures though: around 383,000 copies of the book were sold on the first week alone. (Source: Gigaom)

Now that you have seen what can be hung on your Christmas trees and learnt more about Apple’s visionary, what will you personally do to celebrate the life of Steve Jobs? Leave your comments and thoughts!

Related links:

Steve Jobs bio: 379,000 U.S. sales and counting

"Here's to the crazy ones" gets its own beautiful, letterpress poster to benefit charity

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