Jonathan Ive

JONATHAN IVE

            Jonathan Ive is a British designer known mostly for his work as the senior vice president of Apple.  Ive was born in February of 1967 in Chingford, London.  Raised by his father as a child attending school in Stafford.  He went on to attend Northumbria University.  That is where Ive met his wife Heather Pegg and then later married in 1987.  They now have twin sons and life in San Francisco

Jonathan was interested in designed from an early age, he just wasn’t sure of what exactly he wanted to do, or where it would take him.  It wasn’t until his later college years that he started developing ideas for Apple, which would be the turning point of his design career.  After graduating from college Ive became one of the co-founders  of a London design agency called Tangerine; and in 1997 he gained his current position at Apple with his first assignment being the iPod which later turned into the iPhone.  He continued to gain recognition from other designers and even Apple with his series of clean very functional designs.  Ive stats that some of the influence in this work came from Dieter Rams, and his 10 principles of good design.

 Now Jonathan is the head of the industrial design team, and also has his own design laboratory were his team is in a relaxed environment with music playing.  Some of the work that has come from Ive’s team is the iMac, iPod, iPhone, Macbook, iPod Touch, iPad, and the Macbook Air and Pro.  Ives has received many accolades through the years including The Sunday Times naming him one of Britain's most influential expatriates on 27 November 2005, and also A recent Macworld magazine poll listed Ive's joining Apple in 1992 as the sixth most significant event in Apple's history.  But the list doesn’t stop there, in 2010 he was named number 18 on the Vanity Fair top 100, and sortly after Fortune magazine claimed Ive the “world’s smartest designer” because of the work that he has done for Apple.  Ive now lives with his wife and kids in San Francisco where he still currently hold his position at Apple.  He is still designing to this day and now owns almost 600 design patents.