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Jony Ive’s latest design is the emblem for King Charles’ coronation
Jony Ive and his design firm LoveFrom designed the emblem for the coronation of King Charles III, according to a new page on the Royal Family’s website. The emblem will be used throughout the festivities surrounding the king’s coronation in May and on official coronation merchandise.
“It is such an honour to be able to contribute to this remarkable national occasion, and our team is so very proud of this work,” Ive said in a statement about the emblem. “The design was inspired by King Charles’ love of the planet, nature, and his deep concern for the natural world.
“The emblem speaks to the happy optimism of spring and celebrates the beginning of this new Carolean era for the United Kingdom. The gentle modesty of these natural forms…
Jony Ive Featured on WSJ. Magazine Cover, Talks Work at Apple and Design Philosophy
The interview spans topics including Ive’s youth, first meeting with Steve Jobs and work at Apple, and recent work at his design company LoveFrom. Reflecting on his beginnings at Apple, Ive said:
“I wanted to be a part of this crazy California company,” Ive says now. Corporation is a word he reviles. “A group of people who are truly united in a shared sense of purpose” is what he prefers, and that’s initially what he hoped to find at Apple. Instead, soon after he joined, the company began to drift. The Newton tablet he designed in 1992 was praised by critics but largely ignored by consumers. Apple started to atrophy into an acquisition target. “The most important lessons you would never choose to learn because they are so painful,” Ive says. “The death of a company is so ugly.”
Ive on meeting Steve Jobs upon his return to Apple in 1997:
Ive, then 30, assumed Jobs would hire a more renowned designer to replace him, but something unexpected happened at their first meeting. “I clicked with Steve in a way that I had never before done with someone and never have since.”
On his purpose, Ive remarked:
“I love making things that are profoundly useful,” he adds. “I’m a very practical craftsperson.”
He also discussed the importance of language and creativity, the downside of disruption, and curiosity:
“Success is the enemy of curiosity,” “I am terrified and disgusted when people are absolutely without curiosity,” he says. “It’s at the root of so much social dysfunction and conflict…. Part of why I get so furious when people dismiss creativity is that [when] it’s an activity practiced in its most noble and collaborative form, it means a bunch of people who come together in an empathic and selfless way. What I have come to realize is that the process of creating with large groups of people is really hard and is also unbelievably powerful.”
Ive will be featured in November’s “Innovators Issue,” out on newsstands on Saturday, November 12. Ive is one of eight covers representing each of this year’s award recipients. See the full interview on The Wall Street Journal‘s website.
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Former Apple Design Boss Jony Ive: Car Buyers Will Demand The Return of Physical Buttons
Sir Jony Ive — the man designed the original iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad during his 22 years as Apple design chief — has claimed new-car buyers will drive demand for physical buttons to return in automotive entertainment systems.
In recent years, car companies such as Tesla and Volkswagen have progressively moved to remove physical switches from their vehicle’s interiors, replacing them with ‘haptic’ touch-sensitive buttons, or moving a majority of the controls into a central touchscreen. Speaking at a panel session at a conference in the US — alongside Apple CEO Tim Cook and Laurene Powell Jobs (widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs) — Ive said there are merits to the design of multi-touch screens, but car buyers will demand for physical controls to return.
“I do think there are fabulous affordances with interfaces like, for example, multi-touch [the technology allowing for pinching and zooming on phone screens],” Ive said. “But we do remain physical beings. I think, potentially, the pendulum may swing a little to have interfaces and products that will take more time and are more engaged physically.”
When the panel’s moderator — journalist Kara Swisher — asked if Ive was referring to cars, the former Apple design boss responded, “for example”.
The article also reports that “Apple’s secretive autonomous car project is believed to be continuing behind closed doors, with the tech giant reportedly employing 5000 staff members to work on a new electric car.”
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Full Video of Tim Cook, Jony Ive, and Laurene Powell Jobs Discussing Steve Jobs Archive and More Now Available
For the first time since that conference, the full video of the hour-plus-long discussion has been shared on YouTube. During the panel, the trio talked at length about Steve Jobs and his impact on Apple and the world. Laurene Powell Jobs reflected on Jobs and what his thoughts would have been on the current state of the world.
He loved California so much, but he loved our country. He loved the idea of America. He loved what it allowed the individual and the communities to become. He loved the unfetteredness of it. He loved the personal freedoms and liberties, but also the connectedness and responsibility for each other.
During the conference, Cook, Ive, and Powell Jobs launched the Steve Jobs Archive, a new website dedicated fully to Jobs. The website includes videos, emails, and audio clips from Jobs that people may have never seen before.
In an email Jobs sent to himself on Thursday, September 2, 2010, shared on the website, he said, “When I needed medical attention, I was helpless to help myself survive,” and “I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being.”
Another notable tidbit from the discussion included Cook addressing why Apple has not yet adopted support for RCS messaging on iOS. In response to a reporter complaining about their difficulties messaging with their mother since she has an Android device, Cook quipped, “buy your mom an iPhone.” For a more in-depth look at the discussion, check out the video here.
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