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Sir Jony Ive, designer

Sir Jony Ive, designer, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury item he would take with him if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne.

Sir Jony Ive is a designer who is best known for his pioneering work at Apple alongside his friend and colleague, the late Steve Jobs. Jony鈥檚 creative vision is behind some of the company鈥檚 seminal products which have transformed the way we live today including phones, music players and watches.

He was born in Chingford in east London and loved drawing and spending time in his father鈥檚 workshop where the two of them made the young Jony鈥檚 Christmas presents including a go-kart, a treehouse and a toboggan.

He studied Industrial Design at Newcastle Polytechnic and moved to San Francisco to work for Apple in 1992. In 1997 Steve Jobs returned to the company, having been ousted several years earlier, and the two of them set about revolutionising the landscape for home computers with the creation of the iMac.
In 2019 Jony set up his own company LoveFrom with the industrial designer Marc Newson. In 2023 Jony and his team designed a foldable Red Nose for Comic Relief and in the same year the company launched a scholarship programme aimed at increasing representation in the design industry.

In 2012 he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to design and enterprise.

DISC ONE: Really Saying Something (US Extended Version) - Bananarama, Fun Boy Three
DISC TWO: De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da - The Police
DISC THREE: Main Theme - Carter Takes a Train - Roy Budd
DISC FOUR: Singin鈥� in the Rain - Harry Ive
DISC FIVE: Don鈥檛 You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
DISC SIX: Define Dancing - Thomas Newman
DISC SEVEN: Debussy: Suite bergamasque, L.75: 3. Clair de lune. Composed by Claude Debussy and performed by Claudio Arrau (piano)
DISC EIGHT: "40" - U2

BOOK CHOICE: The complete set of Jeeves & Wooster novels by P G Wodehouse
LUXURY ITEM: A bed
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: "40" - U2

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Music Played

  • Bananarama, Fun Boy Three

    Really Saying Something (US Extended Version)

    • The Greatest Hits Collection (Collector Edition).
    • London Records (Because Ltd).
    • 1.

  • The Police

    De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

    • Zenyatta Mondatta.
    • Polydor Records.
    • 7.

  • Roy Budd

    Main Theme - Carter Takes a Train

    • Get Carter (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Silva Screen Records.
    • 3.

  • Harry Ive

    Singin' in the Rain

  • Simple Minds

    Don't You (Forget About Me)

    • The Breakfast Club.
    • A&M.
    • 1.

  • Thomas Newman

    Define Dancing

    • WALL-E soundtrack.
    • Walt Disney Records.
    • 22.

  • Claude Debussy

    Debussy: Suite bergamasque, L.75: 3. Clair de lune

    Performer: Claudio Arrau.
    • The Final Sessions.
    • 7.

  • U2

    "40"

    • War.
    • Universal-Island Records Ltd..
    • 10.

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