Jony Ive’s GREATEST HITS
Few people have come to embody Apple in the modern era as much as Jony Ive. Apple’s chief designer has had his hand in every great project to come out of Apple for the last 25 years, from the iMac G3 and iPod to the iPhone and iPad.
As his status grew, he started designing Apple’s software and even helped create Apple’s new headquarters, Apple Park. If you saw something made by Apple, you saw something made by Jony Ive.
That’s why it was such a shock when he announced his intention to leave Apple. He’ll be leaving behind an incredible body of work that truly changed the tech world. So join us as we take a look back over some of Ive’s greatest hits – and a couple of his misses, too.
A brief timeline
September 1992
Jony Ive first joined Apple over 25 years ago, in September 1992. Appropriately, he joined Apple from Tangerine, a design agency based in London, but was reluctant about moving to California due to the toll it might put on his family. Thankfully, he decided to move, and made history in the process.
1997
After the return of Steve Jobs in 1997, Ive was appointed Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, giving him responsibility for the company’s hardware design. His first project in this role was the iMac G3, the product that helped revive Apple and
