According to Bloomberg, another industrial designer who worked under Jony Ive is also leaving Apple. Peter Russell-Clark He left his position at Apple after 20 years and plans to join space technology company Vast.
During the Ive era, Russell-Clark worked on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and the Apple Park campus. She left Apple at the beginning of the year to “do interesting projects.”
As Bloomberg points out, nearly all of the designers who worked under the leadership of former Apple chief designer Jony Ive have left. I left Apple in 2019 to start design company LoveFrom, but continued working at Apple as a consultant until 2022. Apple paid Ive more than $100 million to become LoveFrom’s primary client, but Ive was unable to work on projects that Apple considered competitive, leading to the termination of the partnership.
Many Apple designers who worked with Ive decided to join LoveFrom, and when Ive Evans Hankey’s successor left in February 2023, Apple decided to give up his role as director of product design and replace it with the role of director of production. Filled by Jeff Williams.