The Apple Beat: Refocusing Jony Ive's role and how it impacts Apple

(left to right) Alan Dye, Jony Ive, and Richard Howarth (Photo: Gabriela Hasbun for The Telegraph)

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The big news was Jony Ive moving to the newly created Chief Design Officer position while his senior team members Richard Horwarth and Alan Dye take on VP positions for Industrial Design and User Interface respectively. The news broke through an exclusive by Stephen Fry for The Telegraph, of all places.

Fry, who has been an avowed Apple watcher for over 30 years, was invited to spend time with Jony Ive as well as Tim Cook to get to meet Ive's successors in the VP positions he vacates on July 1st as he moves to cover more new projects (as well as to collaborate with Norman Foster Architects on Apple Campus 2 as well as on Apple Retail Store design).

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Jony Ive takes on new post as Apple’s Chief Design Officer

Updated on Monday, May 25, 2015 at 11:54PM by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

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Apple’s Senior Vice President of Design Jony Ive is taking on a new role and a new title for the company as its first Chief Design Officer. Aside from dealing with hardware, software, and packaging of products, he’ll now add the design of their retail stores to his responsibilities. He’ll even have a hand in picking the furniture and fittings of the new Apple Campus 2.

With an ever expanding line of Macs, iOS devices and various Watch models and iOS and OS X visual design and UI requirements under his jurisdiction, Ive has a lot on his plate, so the move makes sense so he can apply his razor focus on products.

Two of his lieutenants are also getting promoted, which will help Ive divest himself of the more administrative tasks. Richard Howarth will be heading Industrial Design and Alan Dye will be head of User Interface. Howarth has been a key member of the iPhone program since the beginning and Dye has done work with the Apple Watch’s UI. Both will report directly to Ive.

Source: SlashGear

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New Yorker publishes rare and intimate profile on Apple's Jony Ive

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The New Yorker's Ian Parker's immersive profile "The Shape of things to Come," on Apple's SVP for Design Jony Ive is totally worth reading. It gives an intimate profile on Ive as the key cog of Apple's product design powerhouse, his approach on how user interface and design should be seamless as well as the evolution of various key Apple products, including the anticipated Apple Watch. It is an engrossing read from end to end.

The profile is around 17,000 words long but it s definitely worth a read because it covers a lot of things related to Apple, Ive, Tim Cook and the way products come to life from concepts. I enjoyed this more than the unauthorized Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products biography which was woven mostly from second and third-hand sources.

Vogue profiles Jony Ive, gets rare insight into the designer's mind

Vogue just published a rare and lengthy profile on Apple's resident design icon Jony Ive. The piece kicks off on the Apple Watch and then rather thorougly covers various aspects of Ive's personal and professional life. There's lots of information about taste, approach and passion for building things as well as Ive's partnership with Australian industrial desigenr Marc Newson who also recently joined Apple. Check out the piece here.