Jony Ive

OpenAI, Jony Ive & the Art of the Deal

My phone has been pinging non-stop since yesterday. Everyone wants to know the backstory of the biggest acquihire in Silicon Valley history: Sam Altman’s OpenAI buying Jony Ive’s io Products for $6.5 billion. I have a few more clues. It’s why I’m updating my piece on the deal from yesterday.

In their video announcing the deal Ive and Altman, in round about ways, talk about a device that sits between the laptop and the phone – a third device, that we carry everywhere. The reason they are talking about a “device” in abstract terms is because more likely there isn’t “a device.” What I have learned is that there are a few prototypes. They are nowhere close to being in production. And it will be a while before we see anything materialize.

Since the news broke, a Taiwan-based analyst who specializes in supply-chain rumors related to Apple has said that

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Jony Made a Button

TLDR: Jony Ive’s design agency LoveFrom has reimagined the humble button for Moncler, once again proving that for Sir Jony, everything is up for reinterpretation. It’s a reminder that innovation often lies in refining the familiar, not just inventing the new.

Source: Jony Ive’s LoveFrom Reinvents a Button With Moncler

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Moncler is a luxury ski-apparel company that now makes all sorts of clothing — but is mostly known for its jackets and puffers with a big M logo. LoveFrom, Jony Ive’s design firm, and Moncler started working together four years ago and have come up with “LoveFrom, Moncler,” a three-in-one shell jacket that goes on sale later this month.

At its core is Moncore, a down-filled vest to which you can add a field jacket, a parka or a hooded poncho. None of this is new — companies have built layered outerwear for a long time. What’s new

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Apple is hiring a lot more for Design, AI roles

The company doubled job postings for its design division, likely in anticipation that Jony Ive – the man behind the iPhone, and so much more – would leave Apple. Apple job postings rose an impressive 22% in the most recent quarter – but the company seemed to have a “fewer suits, more hoodies” strategy about its hiring.

Apple posted fewer jobs in roles like Marketing and Corporate Functions over the course of 2019. At the same time – and over the same timeframe – the company added more jobs in categories like Machine Learning and AI, and also increased postings in the Hardware category over both Q2 and 2019.

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Steve Jobs on Jony Ive

The difference that Jony has made, not only at Apple but in the world, is huge. He is a wickedly intelligent person in allways. He understands business concepts, marketing concepts. He picks stuffup just like that..click. He understands what we do at our core better than anyone. If I had a spiritual partner at Apple, its Jony. Jony and I think up most of the products together and then pull others in and say, “Hey, what do you think about this?” He gets the big picture as well as the most infinitesimal details about each product. And he understands that Apple is a product company. He’s not just a designer. That’s why he works directly for me. He has more operational power than anyone else at Apple except me. There’s no one who can tell him what to do, or to butt out. That’s the way I set it up.

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Jony Ive talks about the Apple Watch, finally

Ben Clymer is Anna Wintour of the Watch World, an editor of immaculate taste and deep understanding of the watches and their relationship with culture. He is also the founder of Hodinkee (a True Ventures-backed company), that is at the center of all things watches. So it doesn’t surprise me that he got to sit down with Apple’s Chief Design Officer Jony Ive to talk about watches in general and Apple Watch in specific. Watch, it seems to me was a Jony Ive Joint. 

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What Jony Ive said at the Met Fashion Gala

ive_hero20110204Sir Jony Ive, chief design officer of Apple was one of the four co-hosts of Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala alongside Anna Wintour of Vogue, singer Taylor Swift and actor Idris Elba. Apple, was an underwriter of an event widely known as “Oscars of the East Coast.” Here is a text of his speech at the event. (I am working on a larger piece on fashion and technology, which will soon follow!)

We are thrilled at Apple to help bring to life Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology.  When Anna and Andrew first talked to me about their idea, I was particularly intrigued that it would stimulate a conversation exploring the relationship between what is made by hand and what is made by machine – that it would challenge the preconception held by some that the former is inherently more valuable than the latter.

In the design team at Apple we share some similar preoccupations and goals

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WallPaper: the Jony Ive Interview

  
Sir Jony Ive in an interivew with WallPaper magazine extols the virtues of Pencil and the deep technology that has gone into making it so simple. I felt the interviewer wasn’t up to the snuff when it came to asking questions of Ive. Frankly, if I had an opportunity, I wouldn’t know what to ask him either. Maybe I can ask him about his white Valextra leather bag, and why he is missing out on the joys of a broad italic nib. [WallPaper]

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Phil, Jony & Angela

I was at the #AppleEvent yesterday. I quite enjoyed the presentations — solid 7/10, which is pretty damn good in my books, especially compared to the messy WWDC show. Anyway after the session while most of the people were heading to the demo area, I quietly snuck into the executive and special guest area and snapped a few photos. Lack of light made things a little tricky, but my Leica Q managed to show its true potential. Here are three which I liked the most — post processed in Lightroom and SilverFX Pro2

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