Sir Jony Ive | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Ive at Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2010 | |
| Born | Jonathan Paul Ive 27 February 1967 |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom United States (since 2012) |
| Education | Newcastle Polytechnic (BA) |
| Occupation | Industrial designer |
| Known for | Former Chief Design Officer at Apple Inc. Co-designer of the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods and iOS 7 to iOS 13 |
| Spouse |
Heather Pegg (m. 1987) |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | List of awards and nominations |
| Chancellor of the Royal College of Art | |
| Assumed office 1 July 2017 | |
| Preceded by | James Dyson (as Provost) |
Sir Jonathan Paul Ive (born 27 February 1967) is an English and American designer.[1] Ive is best known for his work at Apple Inc., where he served as senior vice president of industrial design and chief design officer.[2][3] He has been serving as chancellor of the Royal College of Art in London since 2017.
Ive joined Apple in September 1992, and was promoted to senior vice president of industrial design in the late 1990s after the return of co-founder Steve Jobs to the company, and Chief Design Officer in 2015. He held that role until his departure from the company in July 2019. Working closely with Jobs during their tenure together at Apple, Ive played a vital role in the designs of the iMac, Power Mac G4 Cube, iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook, and the user interface of Apple's mobile operating system iOS, among other products. He was responsible for the design of major architectural projects including Apple Park and Apple Stores.
Born in London, Ive lived there until his family moved to Stafford when he was 12. He studied design at Newcastle Polytechnic,[a] and later joined the London-based design firm Tangerine, where he worked on client projects for LG and Ideal Standard as well as Apple.[4] After leaving Tangerine to join Apple full time, he began designing the decade's PowerBooks and Macs, finally taking up US citizenship in 2012 to become a dual British-American national.[5][1] He was invited to join the Royal College of Art in May 2017 as its head-of-college, serving a fixed five-year term until May 2022.
Ive has received accolades and honours for his designs and patents. In the United Kingdom, he has been appointed a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI), an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (HonFREng), and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE). In 2018, he was awarded the Hawking Fellowship of the Cambridge Union Society.[6] In a 2004 BBC poll of cultural writers, Ive was ranked the most influential person in British culture.[7] His designs have been described as integral to the successes of Apple, which has gone on to become the world's largest information technology company by revenue and the largest company in the world by market capitalization.
On 27 June 2019, in an interview with the Financial Times, Ive announced he would leave Apple after 27 years to start his own design firm, LoveFrom, together with industrial designer Marc Newson. In 2021, he was recruited by the Agnelli family to work on Ferrari vehicles.[8]
- ^ a b "Sir Jonathan (Jony) Ive: Awards". Carnegie Corporation of New York. 2024 Great Immigrants. 14 October 2024. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
- ^ "Jony Ive Archives". 9to5Mac. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
- ^ Leswing, Kif (27 June 2019). "Apple's chief design officer, Jony Ive, is leaving the company". CNBC. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
- ^ "Jony Ive, Apple designer who started career at tangerine, sets up studio". 20 July 2019. Archived from the original on 20 July 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ Parker, Ian (23 February 2015). "The Shape of Things to Come". The New Yorker. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
In 2012, He was knighted in Buckingham Palace; by then, he and his wife had become U.S. citizens, although they did not relinquish their British passports.
- ^ "Cambridge Union Society Hawking Fellowship 2018". Archived from the original on 15 January 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ^ "iPod designer leads culture list". BBC News. 12 February 2004. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ "Ferrari, Exor Partner With Ex-Apple Design Chief Jony Ive's Firm". Bloomberg.com. 27 September 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
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