Jonathan Paul Ive, CBE (born February, 1967) is a British designer and the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is internationally renowned as the principal designer of the iMac, aluminum and titanium PowerBook G4, MacBook, unibody MacBook Pro, iPod and iPhone.
Jonathan Ive was born in Chingford, London. He was raised by his teacher father and attended Chingford Foundation School. He then studied Industrial Design at Northu...
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Jonathan Paul Ive, CBE (born February, 1967) is a British designer and the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is internationally renowned as the principal designer of the iMac, aluminum and titanium PowerBook G4, MacBook, unibody MacBook Pro, iPod and iPhone.
Jonathan Ive was born in Chingford, London. He was raised by his teacher father and attended Chingford Foundation School. He then studied Industrial Design at Northumbria University (Newcastle Polytechnic at the time).
After a short time at the London design agency Tangerine, he moved to the United States in 1992 to pursue his career at Apple Inc. He gained his current job title upon the return of Steve Jobs in 1997, and since then has headed the Industrial Design team responsible for most of the company's significant hardware products.
There have been four distinct phases in Apple's product design during Steve Jobs' and Jonathan Ive's collaboration:
This first phase appeared in 1997 with the eMate,...
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