Jony Ive#Tangerine

Jonathan Paul Ive was born on 27 February 1967 in Chingford, London, United Kingdom.{{Cite news|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/apple-design-genius-jonathan-ive|title=A Rare Look at Design Genius Jony Ive: The Man Behind the Apple Watch|last=Sullivan|first=Robert|date=1 October 2014|work=Vogue|access-date=1 November 2018|language=en}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/9283486/Jonathan-Ive-interview-Apples-design-genius-is-British-to-the-core.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/9283486/Jonathan-Ive-interview-Apples-design-genius-is-British-to-the-core.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Jonathan Ive interview: Apple's design genius is British to the core|last=Richmond|first=Shane|date=23 May 2012|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=1 November 2018|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}} His father, Michael Ive, was a silversmith who lectured at Middlesex Polytechnic, and his grandfather was an engineer. While attending secondary school, he was diagnosed with dyslexia.{{Cite web |first1=Paige |last1=Leskin |first2=Rebecca |last2=Aydin |date=29 November 2019 |title=The life and rise of Jony Ive, the legendary Apple designer who's now leaving to strike out on his own |url= https://www.businessinsider.com/the-fabulous-life-of-sir-jony-ive-2014-7 |website=Business Insider|access-date=20 December 2019 |url-status=live |archive-date=20 December 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191220144950/https://www.businessinsider.com/the-fabulous-life-of-sir-jony-ive-2014-7}}

Ive was inspired to become a designer by his teenage love of cars. He investigated car design courses in London, including one at the Royal College of Art, but was repelled by the students: "The classes were full of students making vroom! vroom! noises as they drew." He studied industrial design at Newcastle Polytechnic, where he was introduced to forms of design inspired by the Bauhaus. The Bauhaus expressed the idea of only including what is needed into designs. This philosophy can be seen in his work with Apple.{{Cite book |last=Kahney |first=Leander |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/859253129 |title=Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products |date=2013 |isbn=978-1-59184-617-8 |location=New York |publisher=Portfolio / Penguin |oclc=859253129}} While at Newcastle, some of his designs – including a telephone and a hearing aid – were exhibited at the Design Museum in London. He graduated with a first class Bachelor of Arts in 1989.

Ive's designs at polytechnic garnered him the RSA Student Design Award in 1988 and 1989, which afforded him a small stipend and a travel expense account to use on a trip to the United States.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=640f7JNTX0kC&q=jony+ive+shaved+head&pg=PA343|title=The Apple Revolution: Steve Jobs, the Counterculture and How the Crazy Ones Took over the World|last=Dormehl|first=Luke|date=8 August 2012|publisher=Random House|isbn=9781448131365|language=en}}{{Cite web |date=25 May 2012 |title=Jonathan Ive and the RSA's Student Design Awards |url=https://www.thersa.org/articles/blog |access-date=29 January 2024 |website=The RSA |language=en}} He travelled to San Francisco, where he met designers including Robert Brunner, who ran a small consultancy firm that would later join Apple Computer. After returning to England six weeks later, Ive interned at the product design agency Roberts Weaver Group (his college sponsor), where he impressed executives with his attention to detail and work ethic.

After a year with Roberts Weaver, Ive joined a London-based design agency, Tangerine, in Hoxton Square.{{Cite web |title=Jony Ive, Apple designer who started career at tangerine, sets up studio |url=https://tangerine.net/thoughts/jony-ive-apple-designer-started-career-tangerine-set-studio/ |access-date=29 May 2023 |website=Tangerine |language=en}} He designed a diverse array of products, such as microwave ovens, toilets, drills and toothbrushes for clients including LG and Ideal Standard.{{cite magazine|url=https://time.com/jonathan-ive-apple-interview/|title=Jonathan Ive Designs Tomorrow|author=John Arlidge|date=17 March 2014|magazine=Time|publisher=Time Inc|access-date=1 November 2018}} However, he became frustrated after he designed a toilet, bidet and sink for Ideal Standard, and the company rejected the work, stating that the products were too costly and looked too modern.{{cite web|title=10 Things You Didn't Know About Apple Design Chief Jony Ive|url=http://mashable.com/2013/11/06/jony-ive-biography/|work=Mashable|access-date=7 November 2013|author=Seth Fiegerman|date=6 November 2013}} He became unhappy with his clients who had different ideas.

From 1990 to 1992, Brunner tried to recruit Ive to Apple. During this time, Apple became a client of Tangerine. Ive worked on "Project Juggernaut" for Apple, investigating the future of portable computers and setting the stage for what would become the PowerBook.{{Cite web |last=updated |first=Jonathan Bell last |date=15 July 2022 |title=Jony Ive and Apple: three decades that changed design |url=https://www.wallpaper.com/technology/jony-ive-and-apple-three-decades-that-changed-design |access-date=13 November 2023 |website=wallpaper.com |language=en}}

File:Apple Newton-IMG 0454-cropped.jpg|Apple Newton MessagePad, released in 1993. Ive designed the smaller models following.

File:Ipod 1G.png|First iPod, introduced in 2001. Jon Rubinstein assembled the original design team including Ive as lead design engineer.

File:IPhone 1st Gen.svg|A vector rendition of the first-generation iPhone, first marketed in 2007. Its form factor is credited to Ive.

File:IPad 3.png|Although Ive's studio began designing an iPad-like device before the iPhone, the iPad was first released in 2010.

He was formally recruited to Apple as a full-time employee in September 1992. Ive was initially apprehensive about joining Apple given the move from the UK to the US. His first major assignment in Apple's Industrial Design Group regarded the second generation of the Newton and the MessagePad 110. A lack of emphasis on design during the early 1990s prompted Ive to consider quitting.

Steve Jobs, who left in 1985 after being pushed away by John Sculley, was staging a return to the company and recruited Ive to join him in taking the firm in a different direction. Jon Rubinstein, Ive's boss at the time, managed to retain Ive as an employee by explaining that Apple was "going to make history" under Jobs in 1996.

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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. Ive's first assignment in this capacity was the iMac, introduced in 1998 (he is credited with designing its translucent plastic case). The iMac helped pave the way for many other designs such as the iPod and eventually the iPhone and the iPad.{{cite magazine|last=Ohannessian|first=Kevin|title=100 Most Creative People in Business: No. 1 – Jonathan Ive|url=http://www.fastcompany.com/100/2009/jonathan-ive|magazine=Fast Company|access-date=2 January 2012|date=18 May 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111227064856/http://www.fastcompany.com/100/2009/jonathan-ive|archive-date=27 December 2011}} Ive became the first human to make a public phone call with Jobs after he introduced the iPhone on 9 January 2007.{{efn|This can be seen during one of the two annual Macworld keynote (2007 in that case). We can see Steve calling Ive at 51:47 minutes. The call was to showcase how the iPhone would reinvent the phone, Steve Jobs considering the Phone app a killer app.}} It was reported that Ive's desire for keeping the products as thin as possible may have led to the mechanically fragile butterfly keyboard{{Cite news |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/jony-ives-thinness-obsession-apple-butterfly-keyboard-issues-2019-7|title=One of Apple's most controversial product designs in years may have been the result of Jony Ive's obsession with making devices thinner|last=Villas-Boas|first=Antonio|date=18 July 2014|work=Business Insider|access-date=18 November 2021|language=en-US}} and removing the Magsafe power connector, HDMI port, and SD card reader from the MacBook.{{Cite news|url=https://www.techarp.com/computer/2021-macbook-pro-4-features/|title=2021 MacBook Pro Restores 4 Features Jony Ive Threw Out!|last=Wong|first=Adrian|date=18 July 2014|work=Techarp|access-date=18 November 2021|language=en-US}}

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. Only his core team—which consisted of around 15 people from the UK, the US, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand (who had worked together for around two decades)—and top Apple executives were allowed into the office, because it contained all of the concepts, including prototypes, that the design team was working on. Ive did not allow his children to enter the office.

In 2011, it was reported that Ive was paid $30 million in base salary with a $25 million stock bonus for the year.{{Cite news|url=http://fortune.com/2016/01/07/apple-jony-ive-compensation/|title=How Much Does Apple Pay Jony Ive?|last=Phillip|first=Elmer-Dewitt|date=6 January 2017|work=Fortune|access-date=1 November 2018|language=en}} His compensation ceased to be publicly disclosed by the firm thereafter, rendering him the only Apple executive to be afforded such a provision. A year later, it was estimated that his net worth was £80 million.

Ive led the design and development of the Apple Watch beginning in early 2012.{{Cite web |last=Phelan |first=David |title=Apple Watch Secrets Revealed By Jony Ive, Health A Big Focus |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidphelan/2018/05/10/apple-watch-origins-revealed-health-always-a-significant-focus/ |access-date=2025-05-15 |website=Forbes |language=en}} The product was released in April 2015 and has become the best-selling wearable device in the world with 115 million people estimated wearing one as of December 2022.{{Cite web |title=Above Avalon: Apple Watch Is Now Worn on 100 Million Wrists |url=https://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2021/2/11/apple-watch-is-now-worn-on-100-million-wrists |access-date=2025-05-15 |website=Above Avalon |language=en-US}} Talking about the product, Ive said in 2018: "we were all routinely carrying around incredibly powerful products, in terms of their technical ability, in our pockets … an obvious continuation of this path that we’ve been on for so many years was to make technology more personal and more accessible."{{Cite web |last=Sumra |first=Husain |date=2018-05-09 |title=Jony Ive talks origins and future of Apple Watch in new interview |url=https://www.wareable.com/apple/jony-ive-future-origins-apple-watch-2019 |access-date=2025-05-15 |website=Wareable |language=en-US}}

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On 29 October 2012, Apple announced that Ive would "provide leadership and direction for Human Interface (HI) across the company, in addition to his role as the leader of Industrial Design."{{cite web|title=Apple Announces Changes to Increase Collaboration Across Hardware, Software & Services |url=https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/10/29Apple-Announces-Changes-to-Increase-Collaboration-Across-Hardware-Software-Services.html |access-date=1 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121029235405/http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/10/29Apple-Announces-Changes-to-Increase-Collaboration-Across-Hardware-Software-Services.html |archive-date=29 October 2012 }} With the 2013 World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) announcement of iOS 7 and Ive's role as principal, Apple press information was also updated to reflect his new title: senior vice president of design. In the same press update, Ive stated that he hoped his best work was yet to emerge and that he preferred to be identified as a maker of products, rather than a designer. On 26 May 2015, the firm announced that Ive was promoted to chief design officer (CDO), at the time one of only three C-level executives at Apple along with CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri (Jeff Williams would be promoted to COO at the end of 2015).{{cite web|title=Jony Ive promoted to 'Chief Design Officer,' handing off managerial duties July 1st [Tim Cook Memo]|url=http://9to5mac.com/2015/05/25/jony-ive-chief-design-officer/|website=9to5Mac|date=25 May 2015|access-date=28 May 2015 |last1=Beasley |first1=Mike }} On 8 December 2017, Apple announced that Ive would resume direct responsibility for the company's product design.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-08/apple-s-ive-regains-management-of-design-team-after-2-years|title=Apple's Ive Regains Management of Design Team After 2 Years|last=Gurman|first=Mark|date=8 December 2017|website=www.bloomberg.com|access-date=1 November 2018}}

On 27 June 2019, Apple announced that Ive would depart Apple after 27 years.{{Cite web |last=Ive |first=Jony |date=4 October 2021 |title=Jony Ive on What He Misses Most About Steve Jobs |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/jony-ive-steve-jobs-memories-10th-anniversary-11633354769 |website=The Wall Street Journal}}

Ive described his rapport with Jobs in 2014: "When we were looking at objects, what our eyes physically saw and what we came to perceive were exactly the same. And we would ask the same questions, have the same curiosity about things."

Jobs described Ive as his "spiritual partner at Apple", stating that

The difference that Jony has made, not only at Apple but in the world, is huge. He is a wickedly intelligent person in all ways. He understands business concepts, marketing concepts. He picks stuff up just like that, click. He understands what we do at our core better than anyone. If I had a spiritual partner at Apple, it's Jony. Jony and I think up most of the products together and then pull others in and say, 'Hey, what do you think about this?' He gets the big picture as well as the most infinitesimal details about each product. And he understands that Apple is a product company. He's not just a designer. That's why he works directly for me. He has more operational power than anyone else at Apple except me. There's no one who can tell him what to do, or to butt out. That's the way I set it up.{{cite news |last=Richmond |first=Shane |date=31 December 2011 |title=Apple designer becomes Sir Jonathan Ive in New Year Honours |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8985289/Apple-designer-becomes-Sir-Jonathan-Ive-in-New-Year-Honours.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8985289/Apple-designer-becomes-Sir-Jonathan-Ive-in-New-Year-Honours.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |access-date=15 June 2012 |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |location=London |quote=According to Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, the company's late chief executive gave Ive a unique position within the company. Jobs told Isaacson: 'He's not just a designer. That's why he works directly for me. He has more operational power than anyone else at Apple except me. There's no one who can tell him what to do, or to butt out. That's the way I set it up.'}}{{cbignore}}{{Cite web |last=Yarow |first=Jay |title=How Jony Ive Became The Most Important Executive At Apple |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/jony-ive-2012-10 |access-date=29 January 2024 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Apple's invisible aesthete emerging from Jobs' shadow |url=https://www.ft.com/content/5cd6f134-686a-11e1-a8cc-00144feabdc0 |access-date=29 January 2024 |website=Financial Times}}{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Dave |title=Steve Jobs and Jony Ive, once the two most important people at Apple, are no longer there. Here's how they became the most dominant duo in consumer tech. |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-jony-ive-apple-relationship-friendship-stories-anecdotes-2019-7 |access-date=29 January 2024 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US}}

The offices of Jobs and Ive in Apple's Cupertino headquarters were linked by a covered corridor.{{Cite web |last=Gibbs |first=Samuel |date=17 March 2015 |title=Apple's Jony Ive digested: 23 things we've learned |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/17/apples-jony-ive-digested-23-things-weve-learned |access-date=1 November 2018 |website=The Guardian |language=en}} Ive delivered the eulogy for Jobs at both the Apple employee memorial service and the family service in 2011.

Ive received an honorary degree from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in 2009. On 25 May 2017, Ive was appointed Chancellor of the RCA in London, effective 1 July 2017, succeeding Sir James Dyson.{{Cite news |last=Saheed |first=Sam |date=25 May 2017 |title=Sir Jony Ive has been appointed chancellor of the world's number 1 art school |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/jony-ive-apples-chief-design-officer-appointed-chancellor-of-royal-college-of-art-2017-5?r=UK&IR=T |access-date=25 May 2017 |work=Business Insider |language=en}} In this position he serves a fixed five-year term as the Head of college, where he will govern the college as an academic administrator. Ive began running committee meetings, attending faculty meetings, and conferring degrees in the summer of 2017.{{Cite news |last=Quito |first=Anne |date=25 May 2017 |title=Apple design chief Jony Ive is the new chancellor of the world's best design school |url=https://qz.com/991920/apple-design-chief-jony-ive-has-been-appointed-as-the-new-chancellor-of-londons-royal-college-of-art/ |access-date=1 November 2018 |work=Quartz |language=en-US}} Ive said of the appointment: "I am thrilled to formalise my relationship with the RCA, given the profound influence the college has had on so many of the artists and designers that I admire."{{Cite web |date=25 May 2017 |title=Sir Jony Ive KBE Appointed Chancellor of the Royal College of Art |url=https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/sir-jony-ive-kbe-appointed-chancellor-royal-college-art/ |access-date=1 November 2018 |website=Royal College of Art}} Ive was still chancellor in January 2023.{{Cite web |title=Dr Paul Thompson to step down as Vice-Chancellor of the Royal College of Art in 2024 |url=https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/dr-paul-thompson-to-step-down-as-vice-chancellor-of-the-royal-college-of-art-in-2024/ |access-date=21 February 2023 |website=RCA Website |language=en-GB}}

In June 2019, Ive announced the launch of his own independent firm named LoveFrom, along with fellow designer Marc Newson.{{Cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/jony-ive-is-departing-apple-but-he-started-leaving-years-ago-11561943376 |title=Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple, but His Departure Started Long Ago |first=Tripp |last=Mickle |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=July 2019}}{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.wired.com/story/jony-ive-leaves-apple/ |title=Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple |magazine=Wired |via=www.wired.com |last1=Matsakis |first1=Louise}} LoveFrom keeps a low profile but in October 2021 unveiled a minimalistic website.{{Cite web |title=Jony Ive Recruited Four Former Apple Design Colleagues to 'LoveFrom' |url=https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/03/jony-ive-lovefrom-recruits-former-apple-designers/ |access-date=3 June 2021 |website=MacRumors |date=3 June 2021 |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Douglas |first=Sarah |date=2021-10-11 |title=Jony Ive's LoveFrom unveils official website |url=https://www.wallpaper.com/design/jony-ive-and-marc-newson-lovefrom-unveils-official-website |access-date=2025-05-15 |website=Wallpaper* |language=en}}

Upon launch in 2019, Apple was a client of Ive’s. In July 2022, the consulting agreement with Apple was ended, thus ending Ive's relationship with the company.{{Cite news |last=Mickle |first=Tripp |date=12 July 2022 |title=Apple Ends Consulting Agreement With Jony Ive, Its Former Design Leader |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/technology/apple-jony-ive-end-agreement.html |access-date=13 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

LoveFrom works with a number of brands including Ferrari and Airbnb.{{Cite web |date=28 September 2021 |title=Ex-Apple designer Sir Jony Ive to style new Ferrari electric car |url=https://www.driving.co.uk/news/business/apple-designer-jony-ive-electric-ferrari/ |access-date=29 January 2024 |website=Driving.co.uk from The Sunday Times |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |last=Journal |first=The Gentleman's |title=Why did Airbnb hire Jony Ive? {{!}} The Gentleman's Journal {{!}} Gentleman's Journal |url=https://www.thegentlemansjournal.com/article/why-did-airbnb-hire-jony-ive-apple-lovefrom/ |access-date=29 January 2024 |website=The Gentleman's Journal |language=en}} Ive is close friends with Airbnb chief executive Brian Chesky.{{Cite web |last=Lipsky-Karasz |first=Elisa |date=2 November 2022 |title=Jony Ive on Life After Apple |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/jony-ive-apple-design-interview-profile-lovefrom-11666733971 |website=The Wall Street Journal}}{{Cite web |last=Hartmans |first=Avery |title=Famed Apple designer Jony Ive's advice to Airbnb's CEO during tough times: 'You aren't going to cut your way to innovation' |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-designer-jony-ive-advice-to-airbnb-ceo-2022-11 |access-date=29 January 2024 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US}} Through Terra Carta Design Lab in 2021 and Charles's coronation in 2023, Ive has produced designs for Charles III.{{Cite web |title=HRH Prince Charles and Sir Jony Ive's Terra Carta Design Lab Reveals its 20 Finalists |url=https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/hrh-prince-charles-and-sir-jony-ives-terra-carta-design-lab-reveals-its-20-finalists/ |access-date=19 June 2024 |website=RCA Website |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |date=13 February 2023 |title=Jony Ive designs coronation emblem with "gentle modesty" for King Charles III |url=https://www.dezeen.com/2023/02/13/jony-ive-designs-coronation-emblem-with-gentle-modesty-for-king-charles-iii/ |access-date=19 June 2024 |website=Dezeen |language=en}}

In 2023, Ive led the development of a foldable red nose for Comic Relief.{{Cite web |last=Elliott |first=Martha |date=4 February 2023 |title=Red Nose Day 2023: Sir Jony Ive designs folding red nose for Comic Relief |url=https://www.wallpaper.com/design-interiors/jony-ive-lovefrom-red-nose-comic-relief |access-date=19 June 2024 |website=wallpaper.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Warren |first=Tom |date=1 February 2023 |title=Jony Ive has designed a "magically transforming" Red Nose |url=https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/1/23580937/red-nose-day-jony-ive-red-nose-comic-relief |access-date=19 June 2024 |website=The Verge |language=en}} In the same year, LoveFrom announced its own scholarship programme, which is aimed at increasing representation in the design industry by supporting designers from all backgrounds.{{Cite web |last=Dazed |date=4 April 2023 |title=Jony Ive: 'I've always been fascinated by the creative process' |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/59581/1/jony-ive-ive-always-been-fascinated-by-the-creative-process-lovefrom-scholarship |access-date=29 January 2024 |website=Dazed |language=en}} The programme covers the full tuition of a student at the California College of the Art, the Rhode Island School of Design and two students at the Royal College of Art each year.{{Cite web |title=New scholarship in partnership with LoveFrom aims to increase representation in design |url=https://www.cca.edu/newsroom/new-scholarship-in-partnership-with-lovefrom-aims-to-increase-representation-in-design/ |access-date=29 January 2024 |website=CCA |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Royal College of Art announces LoveFrom Scholarship for underrepresented minority design students |url=https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/royal-college-of-art-announces-lovefrom-scholarship-for-underrepresented-minority-design-students/ |access-date=29 January 2024 |website=RCA Website |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Jony Ive HD 09 launches LoveFrom Scholarships {{!}} RISD Alumni |url=https://alumni.risd.edu/news-events/jony-ive-hd-09-launches-lovefrom-scholarships |access-date=29 January 2024 |website=alumni.risd.edu |language=en}}

In September 2024, LoveFrom announced the launch of a new outerwear collection in collaboration with Moncler.{{Cite news |last=Cross |first=Inès |date=2024-09-07 |title=Jony Ive gets into outerwear |url=https://www.ft.com/content/76873310-8e9a-4c9e-90d0-3a35bddde701 |access-date=2025-05-15 |work=Financial Times}} In the same month, the company unveiled a new logo in the latest iteration of its brand.{{Cite web |last=Wilson |first=Mark |date=23 September 2024 |title=Jony Ive is building his post-Apple brand the patient way |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/91195233/jony-ive-love-from-logo-building-post-apple-brand |website=Fast Company}} The new logo includes the addition of a bear, which is LoveFrom’s mascot called Montgomery, named after San Francisco’s Montgomery Street where the company is based.

In September 2024, the New York Times reported that LoveFrom is working with OpenAI on the development of an artificial intelligence hardware device that is “less socially disruptive than the iPhone”.{{Cite magazine |last=Charara |first=Sophie |title=An 'iPhone of AI' Makes No Sense. What is Jony Ive Really Building? |magazine=Wired |url=https://www.wired.com/story/jony-ive-iphone-of-ai |date=29 September 2024}} In May 2025, it was announced OpenAI would acquire Ive’s AI venture, called io, in a deal that values the company at $6.5 billion.{{Cite web |last=Gurman |first=Mark |date=May 21, 2025 |title=OpenAI to Buy AI Device Startup From Apple Veteran Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/openai-to-buy-apple-veteran-jony-ive-s-ai-device-startup-in-6-5-billion-deal |website=Bloomberg}}{{Cite web |last=Eadicicco |first=Lisa |date=2025-05-21 |title=Former Apple design chief Jony Ive is joining OpenAI {{!}} CNN Business |url=https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/tech/jony-ive-apple-design-chief-openai?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=CNN |language=en}} Ive founded io in 2024 with Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey and Tang Tan.{{Cite news |last1=Isaac |first1=Mike |last2=Metz |first2=Cade |date=2025-05-21 |title=OpenAI Unites With Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal to Create A.I. Devices |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/technology/openai-jony-ive-deal.html |access-date=2025-05-21 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} As part of the deal, OpenAI will become a customer of LoveFrom with Ive and LoveFrom assuming creative and design responsibilities across all of OpenAI’s operations. LoveFrom will remain an independent company with other customers.{{Cite web |last=Jin |first=Keach Hagey and Berber |title=Former Apple Design Guru Jony Ive to Take Expansive Role at OpenAI |url=https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/former-apple-design-guru-jony-ive-to-take-expansive-role-at-openai-5787f7da |access-date=2025-05-21 |website=WSJ |language=en-US}} The acquisition is subject to regulatory approval.

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Ive is known for his minimalist, downplayed sense of style and presentation of self.{{Cite news|url=https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/my-night-with-jonathan-ive/|title=My night with Sir Jonathan Ive at a London nightclub|last=Kramer|first=Nimrod|date=18 July 2014|work=The Daily Dot|access-date=1 November 2018|language=en-US}} Chief among his public image is his "nearly shaved head and tightly trimmed beard". It is estimated that Ive first shaved his head in a tight buzzcut and coupled it with stubble when, in 2001, aged 34, he was promoted to vice president of industrial design at Apple.{{Cite news|url=https://mashable.com/2014/09/09/the-evolution-of-jony/|title=The Evolution of Apple's Jony Ive|last=Koerber|first=Brian|date=9 September 2014|work=Mashable|access-date=1 November 2018|language=en}} His look had him referred to as one of the "100 Most Powerful Bald Men in the World" by GQ in their 2013 listing.{{Cite news|url=https://www.gq.com/gallery/the-100-most-powerful-bald-men-in-world|title=The 100 Most Powerful Bald Men in the World|last=Geller|first=Sarah|date=16 July 2013|work=GQ|access-date=1 November 2018|language=en}} Known for its minimalist look, it has inspired Halloween costumes,{{Cite web|url=https://thescene.com/watch/wired/10-halloween-costumes-for-geeks|title=10 Halloween Costumes For Geeks|website=WIRED Videos|access-date=1 November 2018|archive-date=10 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181110040602/https://thescene.com/watch/wired/10-halloween-costumes-for-geeks|url-status=dead}} grooming regimens, and a small-scale fashion movement, among other things.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/may/23/in-praise-of-sir-jonathan-ive-editorial|title=In praise of … Sir Jonathan Ive|last=Editorial|date=23 May 2012|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=1 November 2018}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/htc-has-its-own-jony-ive/|title=Hey, look! HTC's designer looks just like Apple's Jony Ive|last=Van Camp|first=Jeffery|date=5 January 2013|work=Digital Trends|access-date=1 November 2018|language=en-US}}

He has been known to sport "signature looks" that include: multi-coloured pied-de-poule suits,{{Cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/20aad4d4-d2ba-11e8-a9f2-7574db66bcd5 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/20aad4d4-d2ba-11e8-a9f2-7574db66bcd5 |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Jony Ive on the Apple Watch and Big Tech's responsibilities|last=Foulkes|first=Nicholas|date=19 October 2018|website=Financial Times|language=en-GB|access-date=1 November 2018}} painter's pants, canvas pants, linen button down shirts, Clarks Wallabees, and mono-coloured t-shirts. His favourite tailor is reportedly British clothier Thomas Mahon. 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.{{Citation|last=Think Multiply|title=Jony Ive's magical voice for Apple marketing|date=19 January 2017|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydkvO6C9pTs| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/ydkvO6C9pTs| archive-date=30 October 2021|access-date=1 November 2018}}{{cbignore}}

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The work and principles of Dieter Rams, the chief designer of Braun from 1961 until 1995, influenced Ive's work. In Gary Hustwit's documentary film Objectified (2009), Rams says that Apple is one of only a handful of companies existing today that design products according to his ten principles of good design.{{cite web|url=http://www.braun.com/global/world-of-braun/braun-design/design-evolution.html|title=Design evolution|year=2009|publisher=Braun GmbH|access-date=24 May 2011|quote=Designer: Dieter Rams and Dietrich Lubs}}{{cite web|url=https://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secrets-to-apples-future|title=The Future of Apple Is in 1960s Braun: 1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple's Future|date=14 January 2008|publisher=gizmodo.com (Gawker Media)|access-date=30 June 2010|archive-date=23 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623075518/http://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secrets-to-apples-future|url-status=dead}} Ive contributed an essay to a 2011 Rams monograph, Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible.{{Cite web |title=Book Review: Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible, by Sophie Lovell |url=https://www.core77.com/posts/20166/book-review-dieter-rams-as-little-design-as-possible-by-sophie-lovell-20166 |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=Core77 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last1=Lovell |first1=Sophie |title=Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible |last2=Klemp |first2=Klaus |last3=Ive |first3=Jonathan |date=2011 |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0714849188 |location=London New York, NY}}

He is also said to have been influenced by the Bauhaus tradition (known for its credos form follows function and less is more), which emerged in Germany during the 1920s and became a staple design approach adopted by the Ulm School of Design during the 1950s. The Bauhaus / Ulm design style was also adopted during the 1980s by luxury automotive brand Audi, which also influenced Jonathan Ive's designs (particularly his work with Apple), and has garnered comparisons in colour stencil, structure, and lighting design.{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/11/30/jony-ives-no-longer-so-secret-design-weapon/#da920fd3f62c|title=Jony Ive's No Longer So Secret Design Weapon|work=Forbes}}

While he was attending secondary school at Walton High School in Stafford he met his future wife, British writer Heather Pegg in 1987. They have two sons. His family resides in the Pacific Heights neighbourhood of San Francisco, California. Their home was purchased for US$17 million in 2012. While at Apple, Ive commuted an hour and a half from San Francisco to Cupertino every day. He said in 2014 that if his work at Apple ever became substandard, he would "make things for [himself], for [his] friends at home instead". Ive also owns a house in the Cotswolds.{{cite news | url=https://www.ft.com/content/fad9b72c-5386-4591-8667-1fb1596836dc | title='It's a head office for tinkering': Jony Ive and Marc Newson talk tools | newspaper=Financial Times | date=6 May 2022 | last1=Foulkes | first1=Nick }}

According to the Sunday Times Rich List in 2019, Ive was worth an estimated £192 million.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/sunday-times-rich-list/article/sunday-times-rich-list-2019-profiles-602-650-sting-rod-stewart-7v729g2dj|title=Rich List 2019: profiles 602–650, featuring Sting and Sir Rod Stewart|last=The Sunday Times|first= |newspaper=The Times|date=12 May 2019|access-date=20 November 2019|language=en|issn=0140-0460}}

Ive is known to live a reserved, private home life and to shun publicity.

In March 2025, he was a guest on Desert Island Discs.{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00289vf | title=BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Sir Jony Ive, designer }}

Since his early years in England, Ive has expressed an interest in automobiles and automotive design. While in university he drove a Fiat 500.{{Cite news|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/jony-ive-favorite-cars-2015-2#ive-used-to-own-an-aston-martin-db9-but-he-crashed-it-near-san-bruno-california-3|title=Apple designer Jony Ive's favorite cars|last=Colt|first=Sam|date=14 February 2015|work=Business Insider|access-date=1 November 2018}} He frequently attends car shows and exhibitions such as the Goodwood Festival of Speed, where he serves as a jury member for competitions.{{Cite news|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/apples-jony-ive-talks-cars-at-goodwood-2016-7|title=Here's rare video of Apple designer Jony Ive talking about a gorgeous Ferrari|last=Lewsig|first=Kif|date=17 July 2016|work=Business Insider|access-date=1 November 2018}}

It has been reported that Ive's preferred carmakers were all once-British: Aston Martin, Bentley, and Land Rover. Ive has been linked to owning an Aston Martin DB4, Aston Martin DB9, Aston Martin Vanquish, Bentley Brooklands, Bentley Mulsanne,{{Cite news|url=https://www.theverge.com/transportation/2015/2/16/8045625/jony-ive-apple-modern-car-design-is-shocking|title=Jony Ive laments 'shocking' state of modern car design|last=Vincent|first=James|date=16 February 2015|work=The Verge|access-date=1 November 2018}} Land Rover Discovery 3, and a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud.

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Ive has designed products for charitable causes, including a one-off Leica camera that set a world record auction price{{cite web|title=Leica camera sets a new digital record|url=https://britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blogs/leica-camera-sets-a-new-record|work=British Photographic History|publisher=Michael Pritchard|access-date=22 March 2014|author=Michael Pritchard|date=24 November 2013}} and a Jaeger-LeCoultre sports watch — one of only three — for an HIV/AIDS charity. During this auction, Ive and fellow designer Marc Newson raised $13 million for Bono's Product Red charity. With matching from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and additional matching from the UK and US Governments, the total raised was $46 million.{{Cite web |last=Kahle |first=Laurie |title=Jony and Marc's (RED) Design Auction Helps Raise $46 Million For Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/lauriekahle/2013/11/26/jony-and-marcs-red-design-auction-helps-raise-46-million-for-global-fund-to-fight-aids-tuberculosis-and-malaria/ |access-date=29 January 2024 |website=Forbes |language=en}}

In 2023, Ive redesigned the Red Nose, the symbol of Comic Relief's Red Nose day, sold to raise money for charity.{{Cite web |title=Red Nose by Jony Ive, Design Burger |url=https://www.design-burger.com/red-nose/ |access-date=6 February 2023 |website=www.design-burger.com |language=en}} He also designed the emblem for the coronation of Charles III, which features a rose, thistle, daffodil, and shamrock— traditional symbols representing the four parts of the United Kingdom – in the shape of St Edward's Crown. 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".{{Cite news |last=Coughlan |first=Sean |date=10 February 2023 |title=King Charles coronation logo created by iPhone designer |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64599029 |access-date=11 February 2023}}

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Throughout his career at Apple, Ive has received nominations and garnered awards for his work. He has been appointed a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI),{{cite web|title=RSA Current Royal Designers for Industry|url=https://www.thersa.org/about-us/royal-designers-for-industry/current-royal-designers|access-date=15 January 2017}} an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (HonFREng),{{Cite web|url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|title=List of Fellows|access-date=1 November 2018|archive-date=8 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160608094405/http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|url-status=dead}} a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2006 and Knight Commander of the same Order (KBE) in 2012.{{London Gazette

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}}{{cite news|url=http://www.staffordshirenewsletter.co.uk/News/Apple-creative-guru-and-Walton-High-School-alumni-knighted-for-services-to-design-30052012.htm|title=Apple creative guru and Walton High School alumni knighted for services to design|date=30 May 2012|work=Staffordshire Newsletter|access-date=30 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616092845/http://www.staffordshirenewsletter.co.uk/News/Apple-creative-guru-and-Walton-High-School-alumni-knighted-for-services-to-design-30052012.htm|archive-date=16 June 2012|url-status=dead|location=Stafford}} He has received honorary degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design{{Cite news |url=http://9to5mac.com/2009/06/06/dr-jonny-ive-gets-honorary-doctor-of-fine-arts-degree-from-risd/ |title=Jony Ive gets honorary doctor of fine arts degree from RISD |year=2009 |publisher=9to5mac |access-date=8 August 2010}} and California College of the Arts,{{Cite web|date=1 May 2021|title=Bigelow's Babble On by the Bay: The Cool Kids — And Their NFTs • The Nob Hill Gazette|url=https://nobhillgazette.com/the-cool-kids-and-their-nfts/|access-date=10 May 2021|website=The Nob Hill Gazette|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=CCA honors legendary designer Sir Jony Ive during the 2021 virtual gala celebration on May 14|url=https://www.cca.edu/newsroom/cca-honors-legendary-designer-sir-jony-ive-during-2021-virtual-gala/|access-date=10 May 2021|website=CCA|language=en-US}} and made an honorary doctor of the Royal College of Art.{{cite web|title=Honorary Doctors|url=http://www.rca.ac.uk/more/our-history/college-honours/honorary-doctors/|access-date=5 July 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315030921/http://www.rca.ac.uk/more/our-history/college-honours/honorary-doctors/|archive-date=15 March 2015}} On successive Wednesdays in June 2016, Ive was awarded honorary doctorates at the University of Cambridge{{cite web|url=http://www.cam.ac.uk/news/leaders-in-fields-from-sport-to-computer-design-awarded-universitys-highest-honour|title=Leaders in fields from sport to computer design awarded University's highest honour|date=15 June 2016|access-date=5 July 2016}} and the University of Oxford.{{cite web|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/The-University-Year/Encaenia/2016|title=Encaenia and Honorary degrees 2016|access-date=5 July 2016}} In 2004, he was named the "Most Influential Person on British Culture" in a BBC poll of cultural writers.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3481599.stm|title=iPod designer leads culture list|date=12 February 2004|access-date=12 January 2012|work=BBC News}}

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• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piCuW2wSSTA&ab_channel=WIRED RE:WIRED 2021: Designing for the Future We Want to Inhabit], Jony Ive & Anna Wintour in Conversation

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