![]() ![]() “I’m just really excited to be in an environment where I’m exposed to such different ways of understanding how to be excellent in what you do, and how to be curious and how to be uncompromising in what you’re building. “Jony’s putting together this team of some of the best talent in the world, in all these different disciplines, and I’m so hungry to learn how to build, how to be a better designer,” the 39-year-old told FastCompany. Sharp will have an undetermined role at the company but says he looks forward to the opportunities that the new position provides. Related on Archinect: Working out of the Box: Pinterest Co-Founder Evan Sharp “Architecture school made me see the web in a similar way and to understand how people use different kinds of web space in different ways, and for different purposes, has helped me formulate decisions on how people will use Pinterest.” It also forces you to look at everything spatially,” Sharp told Archinect's Paul Petrunia. “The value of iteration, and working very long hours on the same problem to find the right solution - having that diligence is something that architecture school teaches you. “I do miss a lot of things about architecture: materials, the third dimension, the human scale of the work,” he said at the time, adding that he felt studying at the GSAPP helped him “learn how to approach design problems generally.” Sharp spoke with Archinect about his education and continued inclinations toward architecture as part of our Working out of the Box series in 2012: Oct 14 (Reuters) - Pinterest Inc said on Thursday co-founder Evan Sharp is leaving the company to join LoveFrom, a firm led by Jony Ive, the designer of many iconic Apple products. Sharp worked with Ben Silverman to develop what eventually became Pinterest in 2011 after studying at Columbia’s GSAPP, from which he graduated in 2008. Ive's first design assignment was iconic iMac in 1998 that helped pave the way for many other designs such as the iPod and eventually the iPhone and the iPad.Architect-turned-tech entrepreneur Evan Sharp is leaving the company he co-founded after 11 years to join former Apple design chief Jony Ive’s secretive new design startup called LoveFrom. Jobs made him senior vice president of industrial design and Ive went on to head the design team responsible for most of the company's significant hardware products. Late Steve Jobs, who had been ousted by other Apple executives in 1985, staged a return in 1997 and went straight to Ive, recruiting him in taking the firm to a different direction. Initial design failures and lack of commercial success during the early 1990s prompted Ive to nearly quit on several occasions. After graduation, he was hired by a start-up called Tangerine to work in their industrial design group.įormally recruited to Apple as a full-time employee in September 1992, Ive was initially apprehensive about leaving Tangerine for Apple as he thought the move from Britain to California would take a toll on his family. Ive's departure from Apple comes at a crucial time as the tech giant is working on new-look iPhone 12 and maybe its first foldable smartphone.īorn and raised in London, Ive studied design at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle and had his work displayed at the Design Museum. Ive has been the key design figure behind products like the original iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple's new "spaceship campus". ![]() Ive was one of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' closest friends who considered him as a "spiritual partner". Ive is a singular figure in the design world and his role in Apple's revival cannot be overstated, from 1998's ground-breaking iMac to the iPhone and the unprecedented ambition of Apple Park, where recently he has been putting so much of his energy and care," Apple CEO Tim Cook had said at that time. British-origin Ive who worked at Apple for almost 30 years in June announced to move on and decided to form an independent design firm called LoveFrom that would treat Apple as its most prestigious client. ![]() Sir Jonathan Ive, Apple's chief design officer who is behind the look and feel of the iPhone or iMac that you use today, has formally left Apple as his biography along with photo disappearing from Apple's Leadership page. ![]()
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