Jonathan Ive Overview

onathan Paul Ive CBE (born February 1967) is Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is internationally renowned as the principal designer of the iMac, iPod and the iPhone. Ive was raised in Chingford, East London by his... [more]

onathan Paul Ive CBE (born February 1967) is Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is internationally renowned as the principal designer of the iMac, iPod and the iPhone. Ive was raised in Chingford, East London by his silversmith father and studied industrial design at Northumbria University (Newcastle Polytechnic at the time). In his youth he attended Chingford Foundation School and Walton High School (Stafford). After a short time at London design agency Tangerine[2], Ive moved to the United States in 1992 to pursue his career at Apple.[3] He gained his current job title upon the return of Steve Jobs in 1997, and since then has headed the industrial design team responsible for most of the company's significant hardware products. [show less]