Jonathan Ive

1.5.06: San Francisco: Apple / Ive
Melanie from Wired arranged for Danielle and me to visit Apple and have a chat/lunch with Jonathan Ive.



From Wikipedia:

Ive's team designed the original iMac and its successors, the original iBook and its successors, the Power Mac starting with the Blue and White Power Mac G3, the Power Mac G4 Cube, the PowerBook starting with the Titanium PowerBook G4 (or possibly earlier), the eMac, the Mac mini, the Xserve and Xserve RAID, the iPod family, the AirPort base station family, and the Apple Cinema Display and some later Studio Displays.

Whew, no wonder he has been winning lots of design awards. Jonathan showed us the inside of an aluminum PowerBook — he seemed as proud of the intricate foldings and stampings of the invisible stuff as most would be of the outside. The point was that the design goes clear through — it’s not an appliqué merely stuck on the outside to make it all seem groovy, but extends to stuff most of us will never ever see.

I mentioned that I was in the midst of a collaboration with Fatboy Slim and Jonathan said he was having dinner that night with his friend John Digweed, one of the world’s top electronic DJs and a pal of Norman’s.

Maybe that gives as much insight into where he’s coming from as anything.

John Digweed: