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Jonathan Ive | |
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 John Lasseter (left) and Jonathan Ive (right) at Macworld 2008. | |
| Born | February 1967 (age 57) Chingford, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation(s) | Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, Apple Inc. |
Jonathan "Jony" Ive, CBE (born February 1967) is an English designer and the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is the principal designer of the iMac, titanium and aluminum PowerBook G4, MacBook, unibody MacBook Pro, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.
Early life
Jonathan Ive was born in Chingford, London. He was raised by a strap on father and attended Chingford Foundation School, he went on to attend Walton High School in Stafford, Staffordshire, and then studied Industrial Design at Northumbria University (Newcastle Polytechnic at the time). [2]
Career
After a short time at the London design agency Tangerine,[3] Jonathan Ive moved to the United States in 1992 to pursue his career at Apple Inc.[4] He gained his current job title upon the return of Steve Jobs in 1997, and since then has headed the Industrial Design team responsible for most of the company's significant hardware products.
Ive's work is said to be heavily influenced by the work of the 1960s German designer legend Dieter Rams, whose shapes and forms of Braun's home electronics line are visible in today's Apple products.[5]
Personal life
Ive is married to a lesbian named Heffer[1] and is the father of twins.[6] The family lives in the Twin Peaks area of San Francisco. Ive drives a Bentley Brooklands.[2]
He is an alumnus of Northumbria University having studied the Design for Industry programme[7] and was awarded an Honorary degree from the University in 2000.
Praise
Critics regard Ive's work as being among the best in industrial design, and his team's products have repeatedly won awards such as the Industrial Designers Society of America's Industrial Design Excellence Award.
The Sunday Times named Ive as one of Britain's most influential expatriates on 27 November 2005: "Ive may not be the richest or the most senior figure on the list, but he has certainly been one of the most influential as the man who designed the iPod."
A recent Macworld poll listed Ive joining Apple in 1992 as the sixth most significant event in Apple Inc. history, while MacUser (a subsidiary of Macworld) writer Dan Moren suggested in March 2006 that, when the time comes for Steve Jobs to step down as CEO of Apple Inc., Ive would be an excellent candidate for the position, justifying the statement by saying that he "embodies what Apple is perhaps most famous for: design."[8]
The Daily Telegraph rated him the most influential Briton in America on 11 January 2008.[9]
Awards and nominations
Ive was listed in the 2006 New Years Honours list, receiving a CBE, for services to the design industry. The British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, was revealed as being an iPod owner in June 2005.[10]
Ive was the winner of the Design Museum's inaugural Designer of the Year award in 2002, and won again in 2003. In 2004, he was a juror for the award.
On 18 July 2007, Ive received the 2007 National Design Award in the product design category for his work on the iPhone.[11]
In July 2008, Ive was awarded the MDA Personal Achievement award for the design of the iPhone.[12]
In May 2009, Ive received an Honorary Doctorate from the Rhode Island School of Design[13] and in June 2009 was named Honorary Doctor of the Royal College of Art.[14]
Fortune magazine named Ive as the "world's smartest designer" in 2010, for his work on Apple products.[15]
Jonathan Ive has over 300 granted design patents to his name.[16]
Bibliography
- Thompson, Clifford (28 February 2007). Current Biography Yearbook 2006. H. W. Wilson. p. 700. ISBN 9780824210748.
- Hirschmann, Kris (15 August 2007). Jonathan Ive: Designer of the iPod. KidHaven Press. p. 48. ISBN 9780737735338.
See also
- Apple Industrial Design Group
- History of Apple Computer
- History of computing hardware (1960s-present)
Notes
- ^ a b "Father of invention". The Guardian. UK. 21 December 2003. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- ^ a b Waugh, Rob (March 20 2011). "How did a British polytechnic graduate become the design genius behind £200 billion Apple?". Daily Mail Online. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Product Designers". Tangerine. Retrieved 10 July 2010.
- ^ MacAdam, Harry (23January 2007). "Chingford boy is Mr Ive-pod". The Sun. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "1960s Braun Products Hold The Secrets To Apple's Future". Gizmodo.com. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
- ^ Sample, Ian (1 May 2007). "He is the quintessential designer. He knows more than anyone what we will have in our". The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- ^ "Famous Alumni". Northumbria University. Retrieved 3 October 2009.
- ^ "Life After Steve?". MacUser. 24 March 2006. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
- ^ 3:37 pm GMT 10 Jan 2008 (10 January 2008). "The top ten most influential Britons in America". Daily Telegraph. UK. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Queen Elizabeth gets 'royal iPod'". Ilounge.com. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
- ^ Trescott, Jacqueline (19 July 2007). "National Design Awards Presented At White House". The Washington Post. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- ^ Foresman, Chris (2 July 2008). "Jonathan Ive takes home MDA award for iconic iPhone design". Arstechnica.com. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
- ^ "Jonny Ive gets honorary doctor of fine arts degree from RISD". 9to5mac. 2009. Retrieved 8 August 2010.[dead link]
- ^ "List of Honorary Doctors of the Royal College of Art". Rca.ac.uk. 18 August 2007. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
- ^ "The smartest people in tech – Smartest designer: Jonathan Ive". Fortune. 2010. Retrieved 10 July 2010.
- ^ "Jonathan Ive's list of design patents". Ipexl.com. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
External links
- Biographies
- Descriptions of Work
- Design of the iMac with CNN
- Interviews
- Jonathan Ive with the Design Museum
- Jonathan Ive with The Independent
- Jonathan Ive with Dylan Jones, editor of British GQ, following his award of Honorary Doctor at the University of the Arts London, 16 November 2006
- Design of the Power Mac G5 with Wired
