Jonathan Ive interviewed

It's no more than a year old; the timeline at the bottom lists his promotion to Vice President of Industrial Design, which occurred fairly recently, and the release of the Mac mini.

Nah! This interview is old!

Dimitris, I think this interview is fairly recent, but even if it isn't we haven't covered it before so it is new to us. :)

that's a wonderful photo... I bet the interviewer was saying something like "hey, but Windows XP - its pretty slick, right?" That's the only way I can excuse that photo's pose-y-ness. "pretty slick" heh.

well, not really faceless at all... if not ive, then certainly jobs - and the mac smiley over the years? hehe, better than the sweaty contorted face of steve ballmer or gates' embarassed mug every time a demo crashes rofl

Great comment, Sean! - From another low-level designer :-)

Right - Ives is certainly given a lot of credit - heck people are even making t-shirts with his face: http://www.spreadshirt.com/shop.php?op=articles&motive_id=396461 Wheres the t-shirt with the rest of apples indrustrial-design team?

As a designer, I would like to take this opportunity to gripe. Jonathan Ive is a talented designer, but he did not design Apple's products all by his lonesome. Apple has a TEAM of industrial designers who work hand-in-hand with the software and engineering teams to develop these amazing products. The Apple Industrial Design Team is led by Ive, meaning he approves or vetoes ideas and designs, and introduces ideas to the rest of the team for them to proceed with the design. Too often in the design world is a "name" attached to a design when that "name" really had very little to do with the actual designing. All of the Michael Graves products in Target, for instance. It's like a movie being called a Steven Spielberg film, and then not having any other credits listed. That said, Ive is (by accounts I've read and heard) a VERY hands-on design director and will often develop some of his ideas independently of the rest of the team. Sometimes these make it through, sometimes they don't. But the point of the whole thing is, Jonathan Ive alone is not Apple industrial design. "Sounds like the ranting of a low-level designer," you're probably thinking. You'd probably be right. :-D

Isn't this interview like what, 2 years old?

Dude. Ancient news. I got all excited because Ive is my god and I'm gonna study industrial design. Ack.