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In the News (Tue 15 Dec 09)

  
  Jonathan Ive – About Jonathan
Jonathan Paul Ive CBE (casually called Jony Ive and mistakenly called Jonathan Ives) was born in February 1967 in London and grew up in Chingford, Essex.
Jonathan Ive was instrumental to this turnaround, and under the new Jobs-led Apple he was promoted to Senior Vice President of Industrial Design and began a period of unrivalled creativity and innovation which continues to this day.
Jonathan is a modest and shy person, who often seems uncomfortable with the attention and celebrity his work has generated.
www.jonathanive.com /biography   (1102 words)

  
 Jonathan Ive
The Observer have featured Jonathan in their article “The 50 men who really understand women” (scroll down to number 30).
While the article shares little else new about Jonathan its still fun to read about our Jony in monosyllabic van-driver speak; describing him as “stickler for detail” and explaining that his status as a super-designer was “rubber-stamped” by his entry in Who’s Who.
And the only physical control on the front of the iPhone —; the solitary “home” button — is classic Jonathan Ive: distilling everything into one zen-like control that acts as the anchor to the entire system, providing familiarity and a sense of safety to the user.
www.jonathanive.com   (1444 words)

  
  Jonathan Ive - Medbib.com, the modern encyclopedia
Jonathan Paul Ive CBE (born February 1967) is Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc He is internationally renowned as the principal designer of the iMac, iPod and the iPhone.
Ive was the winner of the Design Museum's inaugural Designer of the Year award in 2002, and won again in 2003.
Ive is married to a historian, and is the father of twins.
www.medbib.com /Jonathan_Ive   (1163 words)

  
 Chenzixine_DCset_Christen: Who Is Jonathan Ive?
Ive lives with his wife, a historian he knew growing up, and their young twins in a house "with not a hint of ostentation," says Clive Grinyer, Ive's first business partner.
Ive has said that many Apple products were dreamed up while eating pizza in the small kitchen at the team's design studio.
Ive was still able to bring in a few talented young designers and maintain morale.
chenzixine.spaces.live.com /Blog/cns!1D8465A07075171A!578.entry   (3106 words)

  
 Definition of Jonathan Ive
Jonathan Ive (born 1967) is vice president of industrial design at Apple Computer.
Born in London, Ive is credited with designing the iMac, a key product in turning Apple's fortunes at a difficult time for the company and re-establishing its reputation for mould-breaking products.
Ive is winner of the Design Museum's inaugural Designer of the Year award in 2003.
www.wordiq.com /definition/Jonathan_Ive   (254 words)

  
 Jonathan Ive - Definition, explanation
Ive is credited with designing the iMac, a key product in turning Apple's fortunes at a difficult time for the company and re-establishing its reputation for mould-breaking products.
Ive was born in London and studied art and design at Newcastle Polytechnic before setting up his own Tangerine design house.
Ive is known to be unselfish: in interviews he always points out how much teamwork goes into the products that he gets the fame for.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/j/jo/jonathan_ive.php   (246 words)

  
 Wired News: Design According to Ive
Ive, the 36-year-old, British-born designer who heads up Apple's industrial design team, is a quiet-spoken, somewhat shy man. In spite of all his awards and plaudits -- he was recently named Designer of the Year by London's prestigious Design Museum -- he is accessible and friendly, almost egoless.
Ive was only too delighted to describe the philosophy -- and all the hard work -- behind the design of the G5.
Ive traced his finger over the side of the case and across the top of the G5.
www.wired.com /news/mac/0,2125,59381,00.html   (730 words)

  
 Jonathan Ive at AllExperts
Ive is credited with designing the iMac, a key product in turning Apple's fortunes at a difficult time for the company and re-establishing its reputation for mold-breaking products.
Many of Ive's designs have centered around simplistic materials and shapes, at times underscoring the amount of technology used in their development.
Ive was also listed in the 2006 New Years Honours list, receiving a CBE, for services to the design industry.
en.allexperts.com /e/j/jo/jonathan_ive.htm   (1113 words)

  
 MacUser: Jonathan Ive: the man behind Apple's design
In the past I’ve compared him to Lost’s Jack Shephard and suggested that perhaps he might be a candidate for Steve Jobs’s office someday.
Given that Ive is hardly one to hog the spotlight, that guess is probably off the mark.
Ive and his team are responsible for the design of the original iMac, iMac G4, iMac G5, the iPod, etc., etc., ad infinitum.
www.macuser.com /people/jonathan_ive_the_man_behind_ap.php   (373 words)

  
 TIME Style & Design, Spring 2003: The Shape of Things to Come, Jonathan Ive
Given the buzz attached to his name in the hallowed halls of Apple, Jonathan Ive might be expected to be something of an egomaniac.
Yet for all Ive's attempts to give away the credit to a design team he assembled, his fingerprints are all over Apple's five-year-long radical shift in hardware design.
Ive began using materials, shapes and colors that had never been seen in the industry before.
www.time.com /time/fashion/20030210/fastforward/ive.html   (478 words)

  
 Education UK - Innovative. Individual. Inspirational.
Jonathan Ive is one of the most respected and influential designers in the world.
Ive was awarded the highest British design honour in November 2003, when he was appointed to the Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry.
Ive and the hand-picked team of designers from England, Italy and New Zealand that he has assembled in Cupertino, continue to receive praise for Apple products’ elegance, functionality, innovation, and attention to detail.
www.educationuk.org /pls/hot_bc/bc_content.page_pls_user_news_detail?x=220775764012&y=&a=0&b=&n=2326   (542 words)

  
 Father of invention | Comment | The Observer
Ive, who has just been awarded the highest British design honour with his appointment to the RSA's Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry, is 'Mr Mac'.
Ive may be the most creative designer on the planet but you would not know it if you met him.
Ive took on the project while he was designing a new range of bathroom appliances for Hull-based Ideal Standard.
observer.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,6903,1111276,00.html   (1535 words)

  
 Profile: Jonathan Ive | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
Jonathan Ive was on stage, lovingly dismantling an iBook laptop in front of an audience of enraptured designers.
Ive joined Apple in 1992, when the company was in disarray, and at first found the work frustrating.
Ive's first major success, the colourful all-in-one iMac computer, was inspired by the glistening transparency of gumdrops, and came as a reaction against the blandness of the beige desktop computers that dominated offices worldwide.
www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,,1983312,00.html   (976 words)

  
 News | Telegraph
Ive talks down his key role in "inventing" the iPod and iMac, stressing the contribution of the manufacturing, software, hardware and electronic teams in his charge.
That devotion comes from Ive's and Apple's philosophy that their computers and music players should be simple to use and beautiful to look at.
Ive - who says he gets his inspiration from the everyday stuff that surrounds him - believes that design and ease of use are as important as function.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/19/nive19.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/19/ixnewstop.html   (1396 words)

  
 "The man behind Apple's design magic" - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
Some designers were at the company long before Ive arrived in 1992.
By the time he graduated, Ive was already something of a legend in British design circles.
Robert Brunner, then with Lunar Design, was floored when Ive showed him an elegant question mark-shaped phone — not just a foam block but an actual model with all the internal components machined separately.
www.37signals.com /svn/archives2/the_man_behind_apples_design_magic.php   (2280 words)

  
 Who Is Jonathan Ive?
Ive lives with his wife, a historian he knew growing up, and their young twins in a house "with not a hint of ostentation," says Clive Grinyer, Ive's first business partner.
Ive was still able to bring in a few talented young designers and maintain morale.
Ive nearly didn't survive the initial turmoil as Jobs quickly set out to remake the company, say two of his colleagues.
www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/06_39/b4002414.htm   (3358 words)

  
 Tszuj-it! | Article Library | By Ted | Esquire - Jonathan Ive
Ive, who has been Apple's head designer for six years, is doing with computers what Smith does with clothes: finding relentless delight in bringing wit and beauty and innovation to every detail, turning ordinary consumers into devotees.
From their top-secret studios in Cupertino, California, the thirty-five-year-old Ive and his talented crew have engineered the machinery of Apple's extraordinary surge from the brink: the gorgeous new iMac, the gorgeous original iMac, the iBook, and the iPod.
Ive's flat-screen monitors are connected to the CPU with a single cable that provides both power and the digital signal.
www.tszuj-it.com /articles/ted/esquire54.html   (444 words)

  
 Apple's quest to put us at ease with technology - Style & Design - International Herald Tribune
Ive is lucky in that advances in technology have accelerated throughout his career.
Having already had new polymers and composite materials to play with, and pioneered the transition from cathode ray tubes to flat panel displays in desktops, he is now excited by the possibility of replacing hard drives with smaller, more robust flash memory in iPods.
Ive insists that how the products' look is determined by technology and usability, and that Apple's underlying design principles are unchanged.
www.iht.com /articles/2006/11/26/features/design27.php   (1199 words)

  
 TIME Digital -- Cyber Elite - JONATHAN IVE
If you ask Ive why he chose a career in industrial design, he will say simply that he likes drawing and making things, and has ever since he was a boy growing up in London.
One of the highlights of Ive's year: consulting with candymakers about how to reproduce the iMac's translucent casing.
Ive expects other manufacturers to try and imitate the iMac's bold look, but figures they'll miss the point.
www.time.com /time/digital/cyberelite/44.html   (399 words)

  
 Fellows of the RSA in the US - bioive
Jonathan Ive is Apple's vice president of Industrial Design.
Ive's team grabbed the world's attention in 1998 with the release of the first iMac.
Ive’s vision has transformed his company and is forcing the industry to transform too." In a BBC poll he was voted as having the greatest impact on popular culture in 2002.
www.charityadvantage.com /RSA_US/bioive.asp   (338 words)

  
 Jonathan Ive Honored by Queen || The iPod Observer - Now Playing
Jonathan Ive, Apple's Senior Vice President of Design, was awarded the title of Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth on December 31, 2005.
Ive was honored for the trend setting designs he has created during his 13 years at Apple.
Ive and his design team have previously received awards from several design institutions, including the including British advertising trade group D&AD, German design museums Red Dot and iF, Industrial Designers Society of America, and the UK's Royal Society of Arts.
ipodobserver.com /story/24920   (337 words)

  
 Jonathan Ive / 25/25 - Celebrating 25 Years of Design : Product Designer (1967-) - Design/Designer Information
The winner of the Design Museum's inaugural Designer of the Year award in 2003 was JONATHAN IVE (1967-), senior vice-president of design at Apple whose innovations include the iPod and iMac.
As senior vice-president of design at Apple, Jonathan Ive has combined what he describes as “fanatical care beyond the obvious stuff” with relentless experiments into new tools, materials and production processes, to design such ground-breaking products as the iMAC, iBook, the PowerBook G4 and the iPod MP3 player.
Ive and his close-knit team of designers at Apple have since applied the same lateral thinking and passionate attention to detail to the development of equally innovative new products such as the Cube, the iPod and the PowerBook G4, the world’s lightest and slimmest 17 inch laptop, and the ultra-slim iMac G5.
www.designmuseum.org /designerex/jonathan-ive.htm   (2314 words)

  
 CeprixConception | Jonathan Ive   (Site not responding. Last check: )
As senior vice-president of design at Apple, Jonathan Ive has combined what he describes as “fanatical care beyond the obvious stuff” with relentless experiments into new tools, materials and production processes, to design such ground-breaking products as the iMac, iBook, the PowerBook G4 and the iPod MP3 player.
Ive and his close-knit team of designers at Apple have since applied the same lateral thinking and passionate attention to detail to the development of equally innovative new products such as the Cube, the iPod and the PowerBook G4, the world’s lightest and slimmest 17 inch laptop, and the ultra-slim iMac G5.
"Jonathan Ive" was posted on July 29th, 2005 by ceprix, and filed under Web Site, Apple.
www.ceprix.net /archives/jonathan-ive   (418 words)

  
 CNN - The man behind iMac - September 22, 1998
But for Jonathan Ives, vice president of Apple Computer's Industrial Design Group and head of the team that designed the futuristic, translucent aqua bubble known as the iMac, there are many similarities.
Jobs was involved throughout iMac's entire design life cycle, which Ives called "a vigorous intellectual process." A small team of designers worked like maniacs for several months to come up with the design, which was largely informed by what consumers wanted, he said.
Ives put a large handle on the back "that invites people to pick it up and touch it," he said.
www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9809/22/imacman.idg   (941 words)

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