{"id":523142,"date":"2026-03-14T12:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T12:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/523142\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T12:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T12:32:12","slug":"nine-jony-ive-designs-that-arent-apple-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/523142\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Jony Ive designs that aren’t Apple products"},"content":{"rendered":"

British-American designer Jony Ive<\/a> achieved legendary status through his world-changing creations as Apple<\/a>‘s design chief, but what’s he been up to since leaving the company in 2019?<\/p>\n

Ive moved to California to join Apple in 1992 and went on to collaborate with Steve Jobs<\/a> on a series of game-changing tech products, including the iPod and the iPhone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After nearly three decades at the firm he left to found his own design studio called LoveFrom<\/a>,\u00a0in partnership with his friend and Apple colleague, the Australian designer Marc Newson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There Ive has applied his pared-back, detail-obsessive design approach to an array of different projects, particularly items for luxury brands.<\/p>\n

He is also working on a series of products for artificial-intelligence company OpenAI<\/a>, details of which have not yet been released.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, here are nine things designed by Ive post-Apple:<\/p>\n

\"Christie's<\/a><\/p>\n

Christie’s rostrum<\/a><\/p>\n

Ive and LoveFrom’s most recently unveiled project is a rostrum for luxury auction house Christie’s<\/a>, replacing a Thomas Chippendale design used since 1776.<\/p>\n

It was made from 200-year-old oak by UK furniture maker Benchmark<\/a>. At the back, stairs up to the podium deploy silently using a touch mechanism.<\/p>\n

Find out more about the\u00a0Christie’s rostrum \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Ferrari<\/a><\/p>\n

Ferrari Luce interior<\/a><\/p>\n

Also a recent reveal, Ive, Newson and LoveFrom designed interiors for Ferrari<\/a>‘s first electric car<\/a>, which is set to be fully unveiled in May.<\/p>\n

Ive and Newson focused on creating satisfying physical controls, challenging the notion that\u00a0“electric cars must be dominated by large touchscreens”.<\/p>\n

Examples include aluminium toggles on the central dashboard and an overhead “launch” pull-switch that activates an acceleration boost.<\/p>\n

Find out more about the Ferrari Luce interior \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Sailing<\/a><\/p>\n

Balmuda Sailing Lantern<\/a><\/p>\n

Prompted by his struggles to find the right portable LED light for his own sailing yacht, Ive worked with Japanese manufacturer Balmuda<\/a> on this nautical lantern<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ive claimed he spent two years on the design, which\u00a0recalls a traditional lighthouse’s lamp, and uses a combination of red and white LEDs<\/a> to mimic the warm glow of a live flame.<\/p>\n

Find out more about the Balmuda Sailing Lantern \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"LoveFrom,<\/a><\/p>\n

LoveFrom, Moncler<\/a><\/p>\n

Ive turned his hand to fashion<\/a> with this outerwear collection for Moncler<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The design enables the wearer to create different layer combinations via a magnetic button, adding a field jacket, parka or poncho to the base jacket.<\/p>\n

It was made from a specially made material on extra-large looms that allowed each garment to be made from a single piece of fabric folded together.<\/p>\n

Find out more about LoveFrom, Moncler \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Linn<\/a><\/p>\n

Linn Sondek LP12 turntable<\/a><\/p>\n

LoveFrom updated the Linn Sondek LP12\u00a0for the turntable<\/a>‘s 50th anniversary, making a series of subtle interventions described by Ive as “respectful and gentle”.<\/p>\n

The primary switch was made circular and flat and some of the edges were rounded, while tweaks were also made to the dust cover, hinges and badge.<\/p>\n

Find out more about the Linn’s Sondek LP12 turntable \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"William<\/a><\/p>\n

William Stout Architectural Books brand identity<\/a><\/p>\n

Ive’s studio demonstrated its graphic design<\/a> credentials with this rebrand for the William Stout Architectural Books in San Francisco<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Its work included the creation of a custom typeface based on the font used for the legendary bookstore’s original sign.<\/p>\n

Find out more about the William Stout Architectural Books brand identity \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Coronation<\/a><\/p>\n

King Charles III’s coronation emblem<\/a><\/p>\n

Another LoveFrom logo<\/a> was created as the official emblem of\u00a0King Charles III<\/a>‘s coronation.<\/p>\n

The design depicted a crown formed of the national flowers of the United Kingdom’s four nations \u2013 an English rose, a Scottish thistle, a Welsh daffodil and a Northern Irish shamrock.<\/p>\n

Find out more about King Charles III’s coronation emblem \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Red<\/a><\/p>\n

Comic Relief red nose<\/a><\/p>\n

Arguably the world’s most recognisable fundraising<\/a> product, the Comic Relief red nose was given an Ive revamp for 2023.<\/p>\n

The flat-pack design was made from 95 per cent plant-based<\/a> materials including paper, corn-based bioplastic polyester and bagasse, a packaging material made from sugarcane pulp which was also used for a small white storage case.<\/p>\n

Find out more about this Comic Relief red nose \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Jony<\/a><\/p>\n

(RED) Diamond Ring<\/a><\/p>\n

A very different kind of charity design actually developed by Ive and Newson shortly before the pair left Apple, this ring<\/a> was made entirely from a single enormous diamond with a record number of facets.<\/p>\n

It was created for AIDS charity\u00a0(RED)<\/a> using lab-grown diamonds and sold to an anonymous buyer at auction for $256,250.<\/p>\n

Find out more about the (RED) Diamond Ring \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British-American designer Jony Ive achieved legendary status through his world-changing creations as Apple‘s design chief, but what’s he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88,215417,60821,235810,15041,64879,65457],"class_list":["post-523142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-industrial-design","tag-jony-ive","tag-lovefrom","tag-roundups","tag-sectionall","tag-sectiondesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}