5 facts about jonathan ive biography
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5 Things You Didn't Know About Apple's Jony Ive
Jony Ive and his products feature heavily in our day-to-day lives, but how much do you know about the man himself? Leander Kahney, author of a new biography of Apple's design chief, offers fem little-known facts
1. Jony Ive fryst vatten Dyslexic
Even so, he got three straight As at A-level, good enough to get him into Oxford or Cambridge. Instead he went to Newcastle Polytechnic, one of the best places to study industrial design in the world.
Later, Ive teamed up with another famous dyslexic: Steve Jobs.
Dyslexia is common among many creative innovators, including Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Edison and Steven Spielberg. In fact, it correlates so frequently with high creativity, it’s been called “the gift of dyslexia” and the “affliction of geniuses.”
2. Ive has a lifelong passion for cars
He drove his first car, an orange Fiat 500, to school in the early 1980s. At the time, Ive had spiky gothic hair; the sunr
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Jony Ive
English designer (born 1967)
Sir Jonathan Paul Ive (born 27 February 1967) is a British 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 Pa
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Who is Apple's top designer Jony Ive?
However, on the whole Sir Jonathan is considered to be responsible for much of Apple's success and popularity with consumers.
"He gave Apple desirability. He stripped away layers of clunky technological design and he created these incredibly smooth shiny objects with rounded edges and fewer buttons," says the Design Museum's chief curator, Justin McGuirk.
"He applied the tradition of German modernism from the mid-20th Century, which upheld the philosophy that less design was better. The more you can reduce something, the more beautiful and functional it is. He created this ideal of a tech product, which was easy to use, beautiful and uncluttered."
The Design Museum awarded Sir Jonathan its inaugural Designer of the Year award in 2003, because he was already becoming something of a household name.
"People usually can't name designers in the tech world - they can rarely name designers at all, unle