Official iPhone 5 Trailer. How Apple Designs Macbooks From Scratch. A Jonathan Ive portrait on british television. Jonathan Ive On Apple's Philosophy. Jonathan Ive in San Francisco. Jonathan Ive talks about Mac design. Jonathan Ive interview: simplicity isn't simple. iMac 1998 - Johnathan Ive on Apple - Design, Architecture and Fashion - Design Museum London. Sir Jonathan Ive | MediaGuardian 100 2012 | Media. Job: senior vice-president of industrial design, AppleIndustry: digital mediaAge: 45New entry Sir Jonathan Ive learnt this year that theApple gadgets he designed, including the iPad and the iPhone, have royal status. Ive was knighted by Princess Anne at Buckingham Palace and afterwards said that the Queen's daughter was a keen user of her own iPad. Barely three months after Ive's knighthood for services to design and enterprise, Apple was crowned the most valuable company of all time as its market value topped $632bn (£397bn) and has just launched the iPhone 5.
And the Essex-born design guru has played no small part in Apple's phenomenal success. Ive is Apple's senior vice-president of industrial design, the executive responsible for the look of its Mac computers, Macbook laptops, iPods, iPhones and iPads. In the iPod and iPhone, Ive oversaw the design of gadgets that irrevocably transformed entire industries.
Jonathan Ive Quotes. Jonathan Ive. Sir Jonathan Paul "Jony" Ive, KBE RDI (born 27 February 1967)[1] is an English designer and the Senior Vice President of Design at Apple Inc. He oversees the Industrial Design Group, and also provides leadership and direction for Human Interface (HI) software teams across the company.[2] He is the designer of many of Apple's products, including the MacBook Pro, iMac, MacBook Air, iPod, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad, iPad Mini and iOS 7. Steve Jobs considered Ive to be his "spiritual partner at Apple," while Fortune magazine stated in 2010 that Ive's designs have "set the course not just for Apple but for design more broadly. "[3][4][5] Early life[edit] Ive was born in Chingford, London, UK. His father was a silversmith who lectured at Middlesex Polytechnic[6] (now Middlesex University): "He's a fantastic craftsman, his Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time in his college workshop, during the Christmas break when no one else was there, helping me make whatever I dreamed up.
Jonathan Ive: For Apple, it's quality, not quantity | Apple. Why is Apple successful? It all starts with the quality of its products, according to Jonathan Ive. The company's senior vice president of industrial design waxed eloquent on this theme during a talk about Apple's design focus at the British Embassy's Creative Summit. "I refute that design is important. Design is a prerequisite. Good design -- innovation -- is really hard," said Ive, according to Wired. "We say no to a lot of things that we want to do and are intrigued by so that we only work on a manageable amount of products and can invest an incredible amount of care on each of them. " Ive insisted that when Steve Jobs came back to the company in 1997, Jobs' goal was to focus on superior products rather than financial performance.
"We are really pleased with our revenues but our goal isn't to make money," he said. Alongside Jobs, Ive has been named one of the smartest men in tech by Fortune magazine and is known for making sweeping statements about Apple's products. Apple's Jonathan Ive: How did a British polytechnic graduate become its design genius? By Rob Waugh Updated: 01:56 GMT, 20 March 2011 Rob Waugh reports on the rise to near-mythical status of Jonathan Ive, the remarkable man from Chingford Jonathan Ive (left) has helped turn Apple into the second biggest company in the world, with a higher turnover than Google or Microsoft Few Westerners have ever seen the forging of a Japanese samurai sword.
It’s considered a sacred practice in Japan; one of the few traditional arts that has yet to be bettered by modern science. Japanese smiths work through the night (better to judge the heat of metal by eye) hammering, melting and forging by hand to produce the finest blades in the world. The steel is folded and refolded thousands of times to create a hard outer layer and a softer inner core resulting in a singular blade: terrifyingly sharp but far less prone to breaking than any sword forged in the West. Once the blade is complete it is polished to a mirror finish, an elaborate procedure that itself can take weeks.
‘It’s an amazing synergy.