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Sir Jonathan Paul Ive (born 27 February 1967) is a British industrial and
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designer, as well as businessman. Ive was the
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(CDO) of
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from 1997 until 2019 (known as senior vice principal of industrial design until 2015), and serves as Chancellor of the Royal College of Art. Ive joined Apple in September 1992, and was promoted to senior vice principal of industrial design in the late 1990s after the return of co-founder Steve Jobs to the company, and CDO in 2015. He left 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
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, Power Mac G4 Cube, iPod, iPhone,
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, MacBook, and parts of the user interface of Apple's mobile
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, among other products. He also helped design Apple's major architectural projects, such as Apple Park and Apple Stores. Born in
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, Ive lived there until his family moved to Stafford when he was 12. He studied design at Newcastle Polytechnic, and was later hired by the London-based start-up design firm Tangerine. After joining Apple, he began designing the decade's PowerBooks and Macs, finally taking up US citizenship in 2012 to become a dual British-American national. 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 a number of 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 Professor Hawking Fellowship of the
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. In a 2004
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poll of cultural writers, Ive was ranked the most influential person in
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. 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 exclusive interview with the ''
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'', Ive announced he would leave Apple after 27 years to start his own design firm, LoveFrom, together with industrial designer
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. He has been recruited by the
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to work on Ferrari vehicles, starting in 2021.


Early life and education

Jonathan Paul Ive was born on 27 February 1967 in
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,
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, United Kingdom. His father, Michael Ive, was a
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who lectured at
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, and his grandfather was an engineer. Raised just outside London, Ive attended the Chingford Foundation School and Walton High School in Stafford where he studied sculpture and chemistry. While attending secondary school, he was diagnosed with dyslexia. According to a March 2014 interview with ''
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'', "It was his teenage love of cars that made Ive decide to become a designer. When he left school, he checked out a few car-design courses in London, including one at the Royal College. He swiftly changed his mind. 'The classes were full of students making vroom! vroom! noises as they drew,' he recalls, still horrified." Ive decided to study industrial design at Newcastle Polytechnic instead. During his time at Newcastle, he was exposed to a form of Germanic design which originated at the German Bauhaus and was eventually picked up by British design schools. The design of the Bauhaus expressed the idea of only including what is needed into designs. This design philosophy can still be seen in his designs with Apple. While there, some of his designs – including a telephone and a
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– were exhibited at the Design Museum in London. He graduated with a first class BA in industrial design in 1989. Ive's designs at polytechnic garnered him the RSA Student Design Award, which afforded him a small
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and a travel expense account to use on a trip to the United States. He travelled to
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, where he met various design experts including
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– a designer who ran a small consultancy firm that would later join Apple Computer. After returning to England six weeks later, Ive interned at product design agency Roberts Weaver Group (his college sponsor) where he impressed executives with a pronounced attention to detail and work ethic.


Career


Tangerine

After a year with Roberts Weaver, Ive joined the industrials group at a London startup design agency called Tangerine, located in
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where he designed a diverse array of products, such as microwave ovens, toilets, drills and toothbrushes. However, his frustration with the position reached a turning point after he designed a toilet, bidet, and sink for client
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, and the company's boss rejected Ive's work, stating that the products were too costly and looked too modern. Ive was unhappy working for clients whom he disliked and who had different ideas. From 1990 to 1992, when
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was ascending the corporate ladder, he unsuccessfully attempted to recruit Ive to Apple. During this time, Apple became a client of Tangerine, with Ive spearheading the firm's initial PowerBook designs.


Apple

File:Apple Newton-IMG 0454-cropped.jpg, Apple Newton MessagePad, released in 1993. Ive designed the smaller models following. File:Ipod 1G.png, First iPod, introduced in 2001.
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assembled the original design team including Ive as lead design engineer. File:IPhone 1st Gen.svg, A vector render of the 1st generation iPhone, first marketed in 2007. Its form factor is credited to Ive. File:IPad 3.png, Although Ive's studio began designing an iPad-like device before the iPhone, the
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was first released in 2010. He was formally recruited to Apple as a full-time employee in September 1992. Ive was initially apprehensive about leaving Tangerine for Apple as he thought the move from Britain to California would take a toll on his family. His first major assignment in Apple's industrial design group regarded the second generation of the Newton and the
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110. Initial design failures and lack of commercial success during the early 1990s, prompted Ive to nearly quit on multiple occasions. Steve Jobs, who left in 1985 after being pushed away by John Sculley, who was then CEO and successor of Mike Markkula, was staging a return to the company and recruited Ive to join him in taking the firm in a different direction.
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, Ive's boss at the time, managed to retain Ive as an employee by explaining that Apple was "going to make history" following the revival of the company in 1996. He became the senior vice president of industrial design in 1997 after the return of Jobs, and subsequently headed the industrial design team responsible for most of the company's significant hardware products. Ive's first design assignment in this capacity was the
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, introduced in 1998 (he is credited with designing its translucent plastic case). The iMac helped pave the way for many other designs such as the iPod and eventually the iPhone and the
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. Ive explained the close rapport that existed in his working relationship with Jobs in 2014: "When we were looking at objects, what our eyes physically saw and what we came to perceive were exactly the same. And we would ask the same questions, have the same curiosity about things." Ive became the first human to make a public phone call with Jobs after he introduced the iPhone on January 9, 2007. Ive's desire for keeping the products as thin as possible may have led to the mechanically fragile butterfly keyboard and removing the Magsafe power connector,
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port, and
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reader from the MacBook. Ive was given his own design office at Apple during the early 2000s in which he oversaw the work of his appointed design team, and he was the only Apple designer with a private office. Only his core team—which consisted of around 15 people from the UK, the US, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand (who had worked together for around two decades)—and top Apple executives were allowed into the office, as it contained all of the concepts, including prototypes, that the design team was working on. Ive also refused to allow his children or family members to enter the office. During the early 2010s, Jobs declared that Ive "has more operational power than anyone else at Apple except me." The offices of Jobs and Ive in Apple's Cupertino headquarters were linked through a hidden, built-in corridor with single-access doors. In 2011 it was reported that Ive was paid $30 million in base salary with a $25 million stock bonus in total compensation for the year. His compensation ceased to be publicly disclosed by the firm thereafter, rendering him the only Apple executive to be afforded such as provision. A year later it was estimated that his net worth was £80 million. On 29 October 2012, Apple announced that Ive would "provide leadership and direction for
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(HI) across the company in addition to his role as the leader of Industrial Design." With the 2013 World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) announcement of
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and Ive's role as principal, Apple press information was also updated to reflect his new title: Senior Vice President of Design. In the same press update, Ive stated that he hoped his best work was yet to emerge and that he preferred to be identified as a maker of products, rather than a designer. On 26 May 2015, the firm announced that Ive was promoted to
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(CDO), at the time one of only three C-level executives at Apple along with CEO
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and CFO Luca Maestri ( Jeff Williams would be promoted to COO at the end of 2015). On 8 December 2017, Apple announced that Ive would resume direct responsibility for the company's product design after spending the preceding two years in a more executive, non-creative role. After Ive’s departure from Apple in June 2019, Ive kept working with Apple, notably by designing some watchOS 7 watch faces with his studio. Apple also confirmed that Ive worked on the M1 iMac (2021) without giving additional information about his role in the development of the model, an unsurprising news knowing the color palette of the iMac, being a throwback to the G3 iMac (1998), which Ive designed too.


LoveFrom

Apple announced on 27 June 2019 that Ive would depart the company, stating that he would start an independent firm named LoveFrom, along with fellow Apple industrial designer
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, that would work with Apple as its primary client. LoveFrom is known to keep a low profile, and does not disclose information about its employees. LoveFrom unveiled its minimalistic official website in October 2021. In July 2022, Apple ended its consulting agreement with Ive, thus ending Ive's relationship with the company.


Royal College of Art

Ive received an honorary degree from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in 2009. On 25 May 2017, Ive was appointed Chancellor of the RCA in London effective 1 July 2017. In this position he serves a fixed five-year term as the Head of college, where he will govern the college as an academic administrator. Ive began running committee meetings, attending faculty meetings, and conferring graduate degrees in the summer of 2017. Ive said of the appointment: "I am thrilled to formalise my relationship with the RCA, given the profound influence the college has had on so many of the artists and designers that I admire."


Public image

Ive is widely known for his minimalist, downplayed sense of style and presentation of self. Chief among his public image is his "nearly shaved head and tightly trimmed beard". It is estimated that Ive first shaved his head in a tight buzzcut and coupled it with stubble when, in 2001, aged 34, he was promoted to vice president of industrial design at Apple. His look had him referred to as one of the "100 Most Powerful Bald Men in the World" by GQ in their 2013 listing. Known for its minimalist look, it has inspired
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s, grooming regimens, and a small-scale fashion movement, among other things. He has been known to sport "signature looks" that include: multi-colored '' pied-de-poule'' suits, painter's pants, canvas pants, linen button down shirts, Clarks Wallabees, and mono-colored t-shirts. His favorite tailor is reportedly British clothier Thomas Mahon. Ive's voice, used in Apple's marketing and promotional videos since 1994, has been noted for its Essex accent and reserved,
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style of speech.


Influences

The work and principles of
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, the chief designer at Braun from 1961 until 1995, influenced Ive's work. In
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's documentary film ''
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'' (2009), Rams says that Apple is one of only a handful of companies existing today that design products according to his ten principles of good design. He is also said to have been influenced by the
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tradition (known for its credos
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and less is more), which emerged in Germany during the 1920s and became a staple design approach adopted by the
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during the 1950s. The Bauhaus / Ulm design style was also adopted during the 1980s by luxury automotive brand
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, which also influenced Jonathan Ive's designs (particularly his work with Apple), and has garnered comparisons in color stencil, structure, and
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.


Personal life

While he was attending secondary school at Walton High School in Stafford he met his future wife, British writer and historian Heather Pegg Ive in 1987. He and Pegg have two sons. His family resides in the
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neighbourhood of San Francisco, California. Their home was purchased for US$17.0 million in 2012. Ive commuted an hour and a half from San Francisco to Apple's headquarters in Cupertino every day. According to the '' Sunday Times Rich List'' in 2019, Ive was worth an estimated £192 million at the time. Known to live a reserved, private home life, he shuns publicity. He explained in 2014 that if his work at Apple ever became substandard, he would "make things for imself for isfriends at home instead".


Automobiles

Since his early years in England, Ive has expressed an interest in automobiles and
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. While in university he drove a
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. He frequently attends auto shows and exhibitions such as the Goodwood Festival of Speed, where he serves as a jury member for competitions. It has been reported that Ive's preferred
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were all once-British: Aston Martin, Bentley, and Land Rover. Ive has been linked to owning a wide-variety of automobiles including: an Aston Martin DB4,
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, Aston Martin Vanquish,
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, Bentley Mulsanne, Land Rover LR3, and a
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.


Charity work

Ive has designed products for charitable causes, including a Leica camera for a charity auction that set a world record auction price for a camera and a
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sports watch—one of only three in the world—for an
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-charity auction. During this auction, Ive (and
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) raised $13.0 million for Bono's
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charity.


Honors and awards

Throughout his career as an industrial designer at Tangerine and Apple, Ive has received nominations and garnered awards for his body of work. In the United Kingdom, he has been appointed a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI), an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (HonFREng), a
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(CBE) in 2006 and Knight Commander of the same Order (KBE) in 2012. He has received
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s from the Rhode Island School of Design and
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, and made an honorary doctor of the Royal College of Art. On successive Wednesdays in June 2016, Ive was awarded honorary doctorates at the
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and the
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. In 2004, he was named the "Most Influential Person on British Culture" in a BBC poll of cultural writers.


See also

* Apple Inc. design motifs *
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* List of English inventors and designers


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