Jony Ive KBE RDI
- Member since 1998
Sir Jonathan Paul "Jony" Ive, KBE RDI is an English designer celebrated for his prolific work with Apple. The former Senior Vice President of Design oversaw the Industrial Design Group, and also provided leadership and direction for Human Interface (HI) software teams across the company. He worked closely with Steve Jobs and played a vital role in the designs of many iconic Apple products, including the MacBook Pro, iMac, MacBook Air, iPod, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad, iPad Mini and iOS 7. He also helped design Apple's major architectural projects, such as Apple Park and Apple Stores.
Ive has received a number of accolades and honours for his designs and patents. In the United Kingdom, he has been appointed a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI), an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (HonFREng), and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE). In 2018, he was awarded the Professor Hawking Fellowship.
In 2019, Ive announced that he was leaving Apple after 27 years to start his own design firm, LoveFrom, together with industrial designer Marc Newson.
During an interview with Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour in November 2018 at the WIRED25 summit, Ive spoke about the power of creativity. “I still think it's so remarkable that ideas that can become so powerful and so literally world-changing,” he said.
