Jony Ive
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Sir Jonathan Ive KBE |
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| Chancellor of the Royal College of Art | |
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Assumed office July 1, 2017 |
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| Preceded by |
James Dyson
as Provost
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Jonathan Paul Ive 27 February 1967 London, England, U.K. |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom United States |
| Nationality | English |
| Spouse(s) | Heather Pegg (m. 1987) |
| Alma mater | Newcastle Polytechnic |
| Occupation | Industrial designer, academic administrator |
| Website |
At Apple Inc. At the Royal College of Art |
Sir Jonathan Paul "Jony" Ive, KBE (born 27 February 1967), is an English industrial designer who is currently the chief design officer (CDO) of Apple and chancellor of the Royal College of Art in London. While working for a design firm in London he was asked by Apple, then a struggling company, to create a look for a new laptop. He took the design to Apple and was hired immediately. Ive oversees the Apple Industrial Design Group and also provides leadership and direction for Human Interface software teams across the company. Ive is the designer of many of Apple's hardware and software products.
Ive has received a number of accolades for his work. In 2003 he was the inaugural winner of the Design Museum's Designer of the Year Award. In 2006, he was appointed as an honorary fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and in 2012, he was knighted at Buckingham Palace for "services to design and enterprise". In a 2004 BBC poll of cultural writers Ive was ranked the most influential person in British culture.
Ive was born in Chingford, London, England. His father, Michael Ive, was a silversmith who lectured at Middlesex Polytechnic, and his grandfather was an engineer. Ive attended the Chingford Foundation School, then Walton High School, in Stafford. During his high school years, Ive was passionate about cars and it was this interest that led to his later career as a designer.
After leaving Walton, Ive explored the option of studying car design in London, such as the course offered at the Royal College of Art; however, he encountered a learning environment that was off-putting: "The classes were full of students making vroom! vroom! noises as they drew". Instead Ive studied industrial design at Newcastle Polytechnic, from which he graduated with a first class Bachelor of Arts degree in 1989. Items from his student portfolio, such as a hearing aid design, were exhibited at the Design Museum in London. Following graduation, Ive was unsure of what area to specialise in; after meeting with various design experts, he was drawn to product design. He was given employment at London design agency Roberts Weaver group, his college sponsor.
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