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Jony Ive

Designer

Jony Ive

Industrial / Minimalist British 1967

Jony Ive is the designer who made hundreds of millions of people fall in love with objects. As Chief Design Officer at Apple for over two decades, he was the material intelligence behind the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, and MacBook, products that redefined not just consumer electronics but the entire relationship between humans and the things they carry. His inheritance from Dieter Rams was direct and acknowledged: less, but better. He made that credo global.

  • Materials treated with the reverence of a sculptor. Aluminium, glass, and silicon as expressive media.
  • The removal of everything unnecessary as the primary design act.
  • Tactility and physical pleasure as legitimate design objectives.
  • Manufacturing process considered inseparable from design intent.
  • The product as complete thought. Packaging, unboxing, and use as a single designed experience.
  • iMac G3 (1998)

    Translucent colour on a computer. The moment Apple returned and announced it wasn't going to apologise for beauty.

  • iPod (2001)

    A thousand songs in your pocket. The click wheel as the most tactilely satisfying interface ever designed.

  • iPhone (2007)

    A single sheet of glass. The object that reorganised daily life for four billion people.