Designer · Knighted 2012 · Founder of LoveFrom
The mind behind the iPhone, iPod, iMac, and a generation of objects that changed how humanity interacts with technology.
Born in London in 1967, Sir Jonathan Paul Ive joined Apple in 1992 and spent nearly three decades reshaping civilization's relationship with technology. His work on the iMac G3, the original iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air, and Apple Watch set the visual and tactile standard for an entire era of modern design.
He left Apple in 2019 to found LoveFrom, a creative collective. Today, he leads design across OpenAI — working with Sam Altman on a new generation of AI hardware that aims to do for artificial intelligence what the iPhone did for computing.
Full Career →The product that saved Apple — and proved design could be the difference between irrelevance and revival.
1,000 songs in your pocket.
A phone, an iPod, and an internet communicator.
From an envelope. Changed laptops forever.
The most personal device Apple had ever made.
"I have a growing sense that everything I have learned over the last 30 years has led me to this moment."
— Sir Jony Ive, on joining forces with OpenAI, 2025