Igor Delovski Board

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Slashdot: Jonathan Ive - Apple's Design Magician

"You have to admit, the guy must have some creative genious in him.
Looking at all those projects there isn't one that I didn't like."


... and from there to Businessweek: An Ive for Design



"The designer central to Apple's recovery in the '90s has quite a list of hit
products to his credit, including the iMac and iPod"

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Apple designer honoured by the Queen

"The British born designer of both the iMac and the iPod picked up a
CBE from the Queen on Friday.

Jonathan Ive, who was born in the UK in February 1967 and studied
industrial design at Newcastle Polytechnic, became a Commander of the
British Empire in the Queen's New Year Honours."

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Digg: Apple Designer lives Modestly but loves his Aston Martin

"Jonathan is said to live modestly, inhabiting a two-bedroom house near
Apple's headquarters in Cupertino and his only concession to this lifestyle
is a top-of-the-range Aston Martin coupé"

[delovski]

Digg: Apple designs look like reworkings of 1960s Braun designs

"Nice story showing how parallel evolution (or design borrowing!) ends up
with current and perhaps future Apple products, with ideas inspired by old
Braun gear."

[delovski]

fortune.cnn.com - Inside Apple's industrial design lab

"I guess it's one of the curses of what you do," says Jonathan Ive, Apple's
senior vice president for industrial design, "is that you are constantly look-
ing at something and thinking 'Why why why is it like that? Why is it like
that and not like this?'"

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bbc.co.uk - iPhone man Jonathan Ive returns to Staffordshire roots

"He grew up - in part - in Stafford, attending Walton High School before
studying industrial design at Newcastle Polytechnic.

After a short time working in London he moved to San Francisco in 1992 to
join Apple."

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dezeen - Design education is "tragic" says Jonathan Ive

"Speaking at London's Design Museum last night, Ive attacked design schools
for failing to teach students how to make physical products and relying too
heavily on "cheap" computers.

"So many of the designers that we interview don't know how to make stuff,
because workshops in design schools are expensive and computers are
cheaper," said Ive."

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quora - What will the iPhone 8 be made of?

"The journey Apple has taken to adopt Zirconia Ceramic as the their
fundamental design material translates like an epic movie plot. We will
begin at the end."