You've come a long way, Jonathan Ive

It's gotta be tough for a guy who designs the sexiest devices on the planet. No, not the million-dollar paycheck or the international fame and fortune. When you're one of the world's top designers, you must make sure your image portrays cool and sexy. If you're a built guy with a shaved head and an English accent, you've done a good job.

On the other hand, if you're wearing beige fleeces with huge collars and sporting a pretty wicked 'stache, you might have a problem convincing people that you, y'know, design some of the sleekest, sexiest devices on the planet.

Oh, how the Internet is going to make all of us have to relive our worse style decisions over and over. Gizmodo has dug up this video clip of Jonathan Ive talking talking about how a computer "can be sexy" circa 1999. You've come a long way, Jonny...

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now4real954

besides the english accents get the girls panties to drop in a heartbeat

April 17 2010 at 2:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

now4real954

jony just lost weight and started working out...and times change...who knows back then he was trying to prove something and now it's been proven and he can just be himself

he's just sexy and there is no doubt about it...enough said

April 17 2010 at 2:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

iBearTouch

Ogre: nerds... nerds... nerds...

Nerds... NNNEEERRRRDDDSSS!!!

*Drops Jon from the rooftop on to his head*

April 16 2010 at 12:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

beacantor@gmail.com

Not so, BeyondtheTech.

did you see that smile at the end of the clip?

April 16 2010 at 9:48 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bynaryum

Looks like he had the "Steve Jobs" makeover: buzz cut, unshaven but tidy, and a black shirt. I'm pretty sure you could post before and after pics of Jobs and see the same transformation - not the current, sickly Jobs, but maybe Jobs from about ten years ago.

April 16 2010 at 9:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Julian

Why is he wearing Kim Jong-Il's clothes?

April 16 2010 at 6:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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mediaburn

Kim Jong Il bout tham at an Apple iGaragesale

April 16 2010 at 9:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jonas

I think they found the secret to eternal life at Apple?

April 16 2010 at 4:06 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Corby

It's almost the same with his creations - just compare his 1999 chubby iMac with current slim ones.

April 16 2010 at 3:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

tzohar

Wow, I had no clue. Nowadays he is seriously one of the most fuckable people on the planet.

April 16 2010 at 2:37 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

brian

Not to bring this too far off topic (then again, we're talking about a shave-and-a-haircut on TUAW), the sucky thing is that young hot girls like jerks, and then when they get older THEN they start liking nice guys. Meanwhile, the jerks had all the fun with the hot young ones. It's like, you love cars and spend your whole life wanting a Ferrari, then by the time you can afford one, you're 60, and no longer want to drive the hell out of it.

April 15 2010 at 11:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply