A biography for Jonathan Ivehasn’t been written yet.
“You cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.”
“When something's made in the smallest volume - as a one-off couture piece - or in large quantities, deep care is critical to determine authentic, successful design and, ultimately, manufacture.”
“I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left.”
“What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.”
“It's difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company.”
“If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.”
“I left London in 1992, but I'm there 3-4 times a year, and love visiting.”
“Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.”
“We all use something - you can't drill holes with your fingers. Whether it's a knife, a needle, or a machine, we all need the help of a device.”
“The form of computers has never been important, with speed and performance being the only things that mattered.”
“Good is the enemy of great.”
“I think subconsciously people are remarkably discerning. I think that they can sense care.”
“There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.”
“I think that we're on a path that Apple was determined to be on since the '70s, which was to try and make technology relevant and personal.”
“That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.”
“Make each product the best it can be. Focus on form and materials. What we don't include is as important as what we do include.”
“I always like when you start to use something with a little less reverence. You start to use it a little carelessly, and with a little less thought, because then, I think, you're using it very naturally.”
“It's important to remember that Britain was the first country to industrialize, so I think there's a strong argument to say this is where my profession was founded.”
“We try to develop products that seem somehow inevitable, that leave you with the sense that that's the only possible solution that makes sense.”
“Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.”