Industrial design
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Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical products that are to be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features,
Electrolux vacuum cleaner, designed by Lurelle Guild, c. 1937. Brooklyn Museum
Braun SK 4 radiogram (known as "Snow White's coffin"), designed by Dieter Rams, Herbert Lindinger, and Hans Gugelot, 1956
Kodak Instamatic camera, designed by Kenneth Grange, c. 1963
Olivetti Valentine portable typewriter, designed by Ettore Sottsass, 1969
Jony Ive
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Sir Jonathan Paul Ive is a British-American designer. He is best known for his work at Apple Inc., where he was senior vice-president of industrial design and chief design officer. Ive is the founder
Industrial design
…and is the source of the Ten Principles for Good design. Many of the Apple company's technically and socially innovative products were designed by Jonathan Ive, who was influenced by the work of Rams. As chief design officer, Ive played a vital role in the designs of products including the Apple Watch, iMac…
Ive at Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2010
Apple Newton MessagePad, released in 1993. Ive designed the smaller models following.
Original 1998 iMac G3, for which Ive designed the translucent case
Ive played a pivotal role, with Norman Foster, in the design of Apple Park (pictured) throughout much of the 2010s, which opened in 2017.