Jony

You enjoyed his iMacs, his iPhones, his iPads. You thrilled at the way he said “aluminium” . You admired the typeface. Are you ready for the $60,000 turntable? Better make up your mind fast, because Linn is only producing 250 of these handmade bad boys. A record player doesn’t seem like a logical extension of Jony Ive’s post-Apple career — but then, nothing about Jony Ive’s post-Apple career has seemed especially logical. And hey, more power to him. Apple’s longtime chief designer officer likely isn’t hurting for…

Image: Przemek Klos (Shutterstock)Apple’s former chief design officer, Jony Ive, is getting in on the vinyl boom with his latest project, a $60,000 turntable.Will We See More of Uhura's Relationship with Spock? | io9 InterviewIve’s design firm, LoveFrom, collaborated with Linn, an audio company, to create a new model of the Sondek LP12 turntablefor its 50th anniversary. The firm will only be producing 250 models of the Linn Sondek LP12-50 that will be available while supplies last from August 2023 to March 2024.With…

Jony Ive has been busy since leaving Apple, with his design agency working on things like a typeface, a charity clown nose and “the future of Airbnb.” LoveFrom’s latest project takes Ive back to his hardware days — it’s a new model of a modular turntable that’s been around for half a century. LoveFrom helped refine Linn’s Sondek LP12 for a 50th anniversary edition. Ive told Fast Company it was a “very gentle and modest project” for LoveFrom that stems from his team’s admiration for Linn. Perhaps as a result of that,…

LoveFrom, the design firm formed by Apple’s former design head Jony Ive, has collaborated with British audio brand Linn on a 50th anniversary edition of its Sondek LP12 turntable. Just 250 models of the Linn Sondek LP12-50 will be produced and delivered between August 2023 and March 2024, with the limited edition turntable available to reserve now for an eye-watering $60,000 (£50,000). According to a blog post from Linn CEO Gilad Tiefenbrun, the collaboration dates back to early 2022 when Tiefenbrun was offered a meeting…

Jony Ive is Apple's most famous product designer and since leaving the company in 2019 has focused on his independent design firm, LoveFrom, and projects like a Red Nose Day clown nose. But he's now back designing tech products, starting with a $60,000 record player.The Sondeck LP12-50 designed by LoveFrom is a 50th-anniversary edition of audio brand Linn's iconic record player and it looks exactly like you'd expect an Ive-designed record player would.Ive describes the LP12-50 as "a very gentle and modest project for us…

The U.K.’s King Charles III is really serious about keeping space clean, so much so that he unveiled the Astra Carta framework’s seal at Buckingham Palace yesterday.Are Big Consumer Facing Tech Companies Redeemable? The Astra Carta framework is a Sustainable Markets Initiative, as described in a Royal Family press release, which emphasizes sustainable practices for space companies. Charles unveiled the seal at the Space Sustainability Event at the palace, which saw attendees,including scientists, astronauts,…

Jony Ive and his team at LoveFrom have made a new design for King Charles III called the “Astra Carta” seal. The seal is meant to represent the UK’s call to action for public and private sectors to work together on responsible and sustainable use of outer space. It marks his second project for King Charles this year after LoveFrom made a royal emblem to herald the King’s recent coronation earlier. The seal, which is animated on the sustainability initiative’s official site, is a circular badge with the all-caps Latin…

Today marks four years since it was announced that Jony Ive was leaving Apple, a revelation that sent shockwaves through the tech world. Just like that, the man who was synonymous with Apple’s product philosophy was gone – and everyone was asking what would come next.Since then, it’s been common for people to assume that Apple has changed in seismic ways, namely that it has extracted its head from its proverbial design backside, stopped making foolish decisions brought on by an obsession with minimalism, and started…

I remember watching WWDC back in 2013. Tim Cook and the team took the stage as usual and, to everyone’s surprise, announced iOS 7. Okay, the announcement itself wasn’t surprising — everyone knew iOS 7 was coming — but instead of Tim Cook showing it off, the company played a four-minute-long video of Jony Ive introducing and explaining the thought process behind the radical design change.With iOS 7, Apple was saying goodbye to skeuomorphism, the design language it had used since the iPhone launched back in 2007. Jony Ive,…

While you may be looking forward to Apple's rumored VR headset in the coming months or an Apple Watch Series 9 as we approach the fall, the company's ex-head designer has been busy designing a red nose.For those unaware, Red Nose Day (opens in new tab) by Comic Relief (opens in new tab) is an event held in the UK since 1988 that aims to help those in poverty worldwide. The charity was created by Richard Curtis, a writer responsible for films and TV shows such as Notting Hill and Love Actually, alongside Lenny Henry, an…