Jonathan Ive

Jonathan Ive was born in 1967 in Chingford, London. He went to Chingford Foundation School, Walton High School and then studied industrial design at Northumbria University. Jonathan for his first job cofounded the London design agency Tangerine. In 1992 he was hired by Apple's then cheif of industrial design Robert Brunner after a Tangerine consultancy with Apple. After the return of Steve Jobs in 1997, Jonathan gained his current position as senior vice president of industrial design. Jonathan is the leading designer and conceptual mind behind the iMac, titanium and aluminum Powerbook, G4 Cube, Macbook, Unibody Macbook Pro, Macbook Air, iPod, iPhone, and iPad. These are the most innovative designs of our generation and they are making the path for future products. As long as Apple keeps employing people with ambition and amazing creativity the company will continue to grow and get better with leaps and bounds.

Stanley Donwood

Stanley Donwood is the pen name for English artist Dan Rickwood. Donwood is known best for working closely with Radiohead creating all of their album art as well as posters. He also worked with Radiohead's front man to create their website and he appeared in many of the bands webcasts. Thomas Yorke and Stanley Donwood met as art students at Exeter university and in 1995 Stanley created his first album art for Radiohead. After graduating from Exeter he moved to Plymouth, England and was a freelance artist for many years. He also runs his own website called slowly downward where various short stories and other writing are published. In 2006 he launched his own record company called Six inch records. Only three records were released from the record company, each selling 300 copies. In 2009 Stanley announced that the record company was going to be closing and that no more artists were going to be signed.

Ineractivity

Interactivity according to definition is accepting input from a human. Interactive computer systems are programs that allow users to enter data or commands. Most popular programs, such as word processors and spreadsheets, are interactive. Interactivity can be a range of things, from entering type into a document to playing games on a website. I also believe we can have interactivity other places than the internet like in video games as well as when we drive cars. Interactivity is all around us not just on the internet.

Susan Kare

Susan Kare's first job was working in the Museum of Modern Art until one day she got a call from a high school friend to come work for Apple Inc. and design the user interface graphics. She was then offered a job as a Creative Director in Apple Creative Services. She designed many of the icons, typefaces and original marketing material for Apple's operating system. Her work from the 80's can still be seen in modern Apple operating systems such as the lasso, grabber and paint bucket. Her most recognizable typefaces are Chicago (Classic Mac OS, and first four generations of Apple iPod), Geneva typeface and the Monaco typeface. She has also created the Apple command key as well as the Happy Mac. After leaving Apple she joined NeXt as the Creative Director, until finally becoming a successful independent designer. Once she went independent she worked with clients such as IBM and Microsoft. For Microsoft she created the card deck for Windows 3.0 solitaire, as well as numerous other icons. Many of her icons remained unchanged for Note Pad and command keys until Windows XP was introduced.