1. Sir Jonathan Paul Ive was born on 27 February 1967 and is a British-American designer.
52 Facts About Jony Ive
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Jony Ive has been chancellor of the Royal College of Art in London since 2017.
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Jony Ive joined Apple in September 1992, and was promoted to senior vice president of industrial design in the late 1990s after the return of the co-founder, Steve Jobs.
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Jony Ive was Chief Design Officer from 2015, until his departure in July 2019.
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Jony Ive was responsible for the design of major architectural projects including Apple Park and Apple Stores.
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Jony Ive studied design at Newcastle Polytechnic, and later joined the London-based design firm Tangerine, where he worked on client projects for LG and Ideal Standard as well as Apple.
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Jony Ive 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.
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Jony Ive has received accolades and honours for his designs and patents.
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Jony Ive's designs have been described as integral to the successes of Apple, the world's largest information technology company by revenue and the largest company in the world by market capitalization.
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In 2019, Jony Ive announced he his departure from Apple after 27 years to start his own design firm, LoveFrom, with the industrial designer Marc Newson.
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Jonathan Paul Jony Ive was born on 27 February 1967 in Chingford, London, United Kingdom.
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Jony Ive's father, Michael Ive, was a silversmith who lectured at Middlesex Polytechnic, and his grandfather was an engineer.
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Jony Ive studied industrial design at Newcastle Polytechnic, where he was introduced to a form of Germanic design which originated at the Bauhaus.
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Jony Ive graduated with a first class Bachelor of Arts in 1989.
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Jony Ive travelled to San Francisco, where he met designers including Robert Brunner, who ran a small consultancy firm that would later join Apple Computer.
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Jony Ive designed a diverse array of products, such as microwave ovens, toilets, drills and toothbrushes for clients including LG and Ideal Standard.
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Jony Ive became unhappy with his clients who had different ideas.
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Jony Ive worked on "Project Juggernaut" for Apple, investigating the future of portable computers and setting the stage for what would become the PowerBook.
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Jony Ive was formally recruited to Apple as a full-time employee in September 1992.
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Jony Ive was initially apprehensive about joining Apple given the move from the UK to California.
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Steve Jobs, who left in 1985 after being pushed away by John Sculley, was staging a return to the company and recruited Jony Ive to join him in taking the firm in a different direction.
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Jony Ive became the senior vice president of industrial design in 1997 heading up the industrial design team responsible for most of the company's significant hardware products.
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Jony 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.
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Jony Ive did not allow his children to enter the office.
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The difference that Jony Ive has made, not only at Apple but in the world, is huge.
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Jony Ive is a wickedly intelligent person in all ways.
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Jony Ive has more operational power than anyone else at Apple except me.
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Jony Ive delivered the eulogy for Steve at both the Apple employee memorial service and the family service.
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Jony Ive's compensation ceased to be publicly disclosed by the firm thereafter, rendering him the only Apple executive to be afforded such as provision.
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On 26 May 2015, the firm announced that Jony Ive was promoted to chief design officer, at the time one of only three C-level executives at Apple along with CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri.
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On 8 December 2017, Apple announced that Jony Ive would resume direct responsibility for the company's product design.
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Apple announced on 27 June 2019 that Jony Ive would depart the company, stating that he would start an independent firm named LoveFrom, along with fellow designer Marc Newson, that would work with Apple as its primary client.
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Jony Ive is close friends with Airbnb chief executive Brian Chesky.
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In 2023, Jony Ive led the development of a foldable red nose for Comic Relief.
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Jony Ive received an honorary degree from the Royal College of Art in 2009.
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On 25 May 2017, Jony Ive was appointed Chancellor of the RCA in London, effective 1 July 2017, succeeding Sir James Dyson.
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Jony Ive began running committee meetings, attending faculty meetings, and conferring degrees in the summer of 2017.
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Jony Ive is known for his minimalist, downplayed sense of style and presentation of self.
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Jony Ive's look had him referred to as one of the "100 Most Powerful Bald Men in the World" by GQ in their 2013 listing.
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Jony Ive 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.
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Jony Ive's voice, used in Apple's marketing and promotional videos since 1994, has been noted for its Essex accent and reserved style of speech.
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Jony Ive contributed an essay to a 2011 Rams monograph, Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible.
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Jony Ive is said to have been influenced by the Bauhaus tradition, which emerged in Germany during the 1920s and became a staple design approach adopted by the Ulm School of Design during the 1950s.
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Jony Ive said in 2014 that if his work at Apple ever became substandard, he would "make things for [himself], for [his] friends at home instead".
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Jony Ive is known to live a reserved, private home life and to shun publicity.
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Jony Ive frequently attends auto shows and exhibitions such as the Goodwood Festival of Speed, where he serves as a jury member for competitions.
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Jony Ive has been linked to owning an Aston Martin DB4, Aston Martin DB9, Aston Martin Vanquish, Bentley Brooklands, Bentley Mulsanne, Land Rover Discovery 3, and a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud.
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In 2023, Jony Ive redesigned the Red Nose, the symbol of Comic Relief's Red Nose day, sold to raise money for charity.
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Jony Ive described the choice of these flowers as being "inspired by King Charles's love of the planet, nature, and his deep concern for the natural world," and that it is intended to refer to the "optimism of spring".
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Jony Ive has been appointed a Royal Designer for Industry, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2006 and Knight Commander of the same Order in 2012.
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Jony Ive has received honorary degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design and California College of the Arts, and made an honorary doctor of the Royal College of Art.
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On successive Wednesdays in June 2016, Jony Ive was awarded honorary doctorates at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford.