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LoveFrom
LoveFrom is an American collective of designers and creatives founded in 2019 by Sir Jony Ive. The company is based in San Francisco, California and has a team of 50. LoveFrom has worked with a number of global brands including Apple Inc., Airbnb, Ferrari and Moncler. History LoveFrom was founded by Jony Ive after his departure from Apple Inc in 2019, where he led the company’s design operation for 23 years. The designer Marc Newson was a founding member. Apple was LoveFrom’s first client and continued to work with the company until July 2022. In October 2020, the company began working with Airbnb on the redesign of its core products and services. In the announcement, Airbnb chief executive Brian Chesky said: “We have made the decision to work together through a multi-year relationship to design the next generation of Airbnb products and services.” LoveFrom signed a multi-year partnership with Exor and Ferrari in September 2021. As part of the partnership, LoveFrom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jony Ive
Sir Jonathan Paul Ive (born 27 February 1967) 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 of LoveFrom, a creative collective that works with Ferrari, Airbnb, OpenAI and other global brands. He has been chancellor of the Royal College of Art in London since 2017. Ive joined Apple in September 1992, and was promoted to senior vice president of industrial design in the late 1990s after the return of co-founder Steve Jobs. He was Chief Design Officer from 2015 until his departure in July 2019. Working closely with Jobs, Ive played a vital role in the designs of products including the Apple Watch, iMac, Power Mac G4 Cube, iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook, and the user interface of Apple's mobile operating system iOS. He was also responsible for the design of major architectural projects including Apple Park and Apple Stores. Born in London, Ive lived the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Newson
Marc Andrew Newson (born 20 October 1963) is an Australian industrial designer, creative director, and artist who has worked in many industry sectors including furniture, product, and transportation design, luxury goods, fashion, and fine art. His work is primarily characterized by smooth geometric lines, organic shapes, an absence of sharp edges, and the use of transparency and translucency. Newson's ''Lockheed Lounge'' chair holds the record for the highest price paid at auction for the work of a living designer. Design critic Alice Rawsthorn called Newson "one of the most influential designers of his generation", and fellow designer Jony Ive has described him as "fairly peerless now". Early life and education Newson was born in Sydney, Australia on 20 October 1963 to Carol and Paul Newson, an electrician. Carol was 19 years old when she was pregnant with Marc, and married Paul during the pregnancy. However, Paul left the family soon after Marc was born, and Carol moved b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exor (company)
Exor N.V. is the listed holding company of the Italian Agnelli family. It is incorporated in the Netherlands, listed on Euronext Amsterdam, and controlled through the privately held company Giovanni Agnelli B.V. (owned by members of the extended Agnelli family). It has a history of investments running over a century, originating from senator Giovanni Agnelli, the founder of FIAT. Its holding include auto and truck manufacturers Stellantis, Ferrari, and Iveco, agricultural and construction firm CNH Industrial, health technology company Philips, the association football club Juventus FC, the international newspaper ''The Economist'', and the Italian media company GEDI Gruppo Editoriale, as well as several other minor investments. In May 2023, Exor launched its investment management company Lingotto. History Founding and growth (1927–2007) The company was founded in Turin on 27 July 1927 under the name of Istituto Finanziario Industriale (IFI) by the then senator Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Io (company)
io Products, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence hardware company founded in 2024 by Jony Ive, Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey and Tang Tan. The company was acquired by OpenAI in May 2025 to lead its hardware product development. History io was founded in 2024 by Jony Ive, Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey and Tang Tan to develop a range of hardware products that use artificial general intelligence. In September 2024, the New York Times reported that Ive and his design collective LoveFrom was working with OpenAI on the development of an artificial intelligence hardware device that is "less socially disruptive than the iPhone". In 2024, io raised $225 million from multiple investors including Sutter Hill Ventures, the Emerson Collective, SV Angel, Maverick Ventures and Thrive Capital, as well as Ive who reportedly owned an 11 per cent stake. It was reported that OpenAI founder Sam Altman Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American technology entrepreneur, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Make Something Wonderful
''Make Something Wonderful'' is a posthumous collection of Steve Jobs' words, released more than 11 years after the Apple co-founder's death. Compiled by a small group of family, friends, and former colleagues, the book offers an intimate view of Jobs' life and thoughts through his notes, drafts, letters, speeches, oral histories, interviews, photos, and mementos. It is published by the Steve Jobs Archive, and available for free online and on Apple Books. The book was edited by Leslie Berlin. It was designed by LoveFrom, a firm founded by Jony Ive, Apple's former chief design officer, with a minimalist gray and white aesthetic that reflects Apple's signature style. Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs' wife of 20 years, wanted people to directly experience her husband's writing and work without any intermediary. Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, distributed a hardcover copy of the book to Apple employees as a reminder of the company's purpose to create products that enrich lives and leave the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Industrial Design
Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical Product (business), products that are to be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features, which takes place in advance of the manufacture or production of the product. Industrial manufacture consists of predetermined, standardized and repeated, often automated, acts of replication, while craft-based design is a process or approach in which the form of the product is determined personally by the product's creator largely concurrent with the act of its production. All manufactured products are the result of a design process, but the nature of this process can vary. It can be conducted by an individual or a team, and such a team could include people with varied expertise (e.g. designers, engineers, business experts, etc.). It can emphasize intuitive creativity or calculated Evidence-based design, scientific decision-making, and often emphasizes a mix of b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OpenAI
OpenAI, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) organization founded in December 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It aims to develop "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence (AGI), which it defines as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work". As a leading organization in the ongoing AI boom, OpenAI is known for the GPT family of large language models, the DALL-E series of text-to-image models, and a text-to-video model named Sora (text-to-video model), Sora. Its release of ChatGPT in November 2022 has been credited with catalyzing widespread interest in generative AI. The organization has a complex corporate structure. As of April 2025, it is led by the Nonprofit organization, non-profit OpenAI, Inc., Delaware General Corporation Law, registered in Delaware, and has multiple for-profit subsidiaries including OpenAI Holdings, LLC and OpenAI Global, LLC. Microsoft has invested US$13 billion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linn Products
Linn Products is an engineering company that manufactures hi-fi and audio equipment. Founded by Ivor Tiefenbrun in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1972, the company is best known as the manufacturer of the Linn Sondek LP12 turntable. From 2007 Linn was one of the first audio manufacturers to introduce digital music streaming using the home network and Internet. This has become the focus of the company's strategy leading to audio systems to support digital music playback of 24bit/192 kHz studio master quality recordings using a digital stream over a home network. Linn Records was the first to sell DRM-free 24-bit studio master quality tracks downloaded over the internet. This network approach was extended in 2013 with the introduction of the Linn Exakt technology to retain the 24-bit lossless signal in the digital domain to the active crossover. In late 2014 Linn announced the integration of Tidal (service), TIDAL's lossless music streaming service into Linn DS digital players enabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linn Sondek LP12
The Linn Sondek LP12 (often shortened to Sondek or LP12) is a transcription turntableGreenberg, Corey (1 December 1993)"Linn Sondek LP12 turntable & Klyde phono cartridge". ''Stereophile'' produced by Glasgow-based Linn Products, manufacturers of hi-fi, home theatre, and multi-room audio systems. Its name is derived from the 12" vinyl LP (long play gramophone record). ''Hi-Fi Choice'' reviewers voted the LP12 "the most important hi-fi component ever sold in the UK"Hi-Fi that Rocked the World , ''Hi-fi Choice'', 20 July 2006 and ''The Absolute Sound'' ranked it the second most significant turntable of all time in 2011. Linn named their flagship CD player the Sondek CD12. History The Sondek LP12 turntable, introduced in 1972, uses a su ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emerson Collective
Emerson Collective is an organization focused on education, immigration reform, the environment, media and journalism, and health. Founded by billionaire philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, the collective, which operates under a limited liability company (LLC) model, uses philanthropy, impact investing, advocacy, and community engagement as tools to broadly spur change in the United States and abroad. The organization is considered to be one of the leading groups engaged in philanthrocapitalism. One of its most high-profile acquisitions was its majority interest in ''The Atlantic'' magazine in 2017. History Emerson Collective was founded in 2004 by Laurene Powell Jobs in Palo Alto, California. Named after transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, the organization says its mission is to do the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people. In 1997, Powell Jobs had co-founded, together with Carlos Watson, the nonprofit organization College Track, a college com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of research in computer science that develops and studies methods and software that enable machines to machine perception, perceive their environment and use machine learning, learning and intelligence to take actions that maximize their chances of achieving defined goals. High-profile applications of AI include advanced web search engines (e.g., Google Search); recommendation systems (used by YouTube, Amazon (company), Amazon, and Netflix); virtual assistants (e.g., Google Assistant, Siri, and Amazon Alexa, Alexa); autonomous vehicles (e.g., Waymo); Generative artificial intelligence, generative and Computational creativity, creative tools (e.g., ChatGPT and AI art); and Superintelligence, superhuman play and analysis in strategy games (e.g., ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
