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But for Mr. Ive, Jackson Square also represents personal reinvention. Few people walk away from their profession’s premier job. Even fewer start over again. A self-professed control freak, Mr. Ive decided that he had fretted enough over the snugness of each iPhone box, the layout of every Apple Watch component and the curve of every iPad corner. He wanted something new. — The New York Times
The former Chief Design Officer at Apple, Ive, is fresh off a $100 million-plus real estate buying spree in San Francisco’s Jackson Square, where a large-scale redevelopment is now planned for 2025. Clients of LoveFrom are paying up to $200 million for his services, per the Times. Ive formed the... View full entry
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... View full entry
"Now nearly double the size of its original version with a higher ceiling and more natural light, Apple Fifth Avenue is a brighter, more expansive space, and the perfect stage for customers to discover and try Apple’s newest products...It remains the only Apple retail location open 24 hours a... View full entry
“technology is at last starting to enable something that was the dream of [Apple] from the very beginning—to make technology personal. So personal that you can wear it.” [...]
“Both the hand and the machine can produce things with exquisite care or with no care at all. But it’s important to remember that what was seen at one time as the most sophisticated technology eventually becomes tradition. There was a time when even the metal needle would have been seen as shocking and profoundly new."
— vogue.com
Vogue interviews Jony Ive and Apple CEO Tim Cook, on the construction site of Norman Foster's new spaceship HQ and back at the old campus, about Apple's convergence with the fashion world and its obsession with design.More on Ive and Apple:Apple's next, HOK-designed Silicon Valley spaceship... View full entry
Apple design chief Jony Ive and retail head Angela Ahrendts are working together on a redesign of Apple's retail stores — a different approach that will make them better suited for selling the fashionable Apple Watch, according to a new report. [...]
And while Apple Stores are known for their carpet-less floors, Ive did tell Parker that he overheard someone say they wouldn't buy a watch from a store if they weren't standing on carpet.
— appleinsider.com
Newson, who will continue to be based in the United Kingdom, will be an employee of Apple, and will be frequently traveling to the company’s Cupertino, California, headquarters. The industrial designer has had his work archived by MoMA, and has been commissioned by Ford, Nike, and Qantas Airways, among others.
Ive and Newson, who have been close friends for years, have been spending time together over the past year. During that time, they have also worked on some designs for Apple.
— vanityfair.com