Architect-turned-Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp is leaving for Jony Ive’s new design studio

2021-11-04T15:27:00-04:00

Architect-turned-tech entrepreneur Evan Sharp is leaving the company he co-founded after 11 years to join former Apple design chief Jony Ive’s secretive new design startup called LoveFrom.

Sharp worked with Ben Silverman to develop what eventually became Pinterest in 2011 after studying at Columbia’s GSAPP, from which he graduated in 2008.

Sharp spoke with Archinect about his education and continued inclinations toward architecture as part of our Working out of the Box series in 2012:

“I do miss a lot of things about architecture: materials, the third dimension, the human scale of the work,” he said at the time, adding that he felt studying at the GSAPP helped him “learn how to approach design problems generally.”

“The value of iteration, and working very long hours on the same problem to find the right solution — having that diligence is something that architecture school teaches you. It also forces you to look at everything spatially,” Sharp told Archinect's Paul Petrunia. “Archi...

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Architect-turned-Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp is leaving for Jony Ive’s new design studio