Apple’s longest-serving senior industrial designer is leaving the corporate, marking the near-complete turnover of a group as soon as led by Jony Ive, studies Bloomberg.
Bart Andre, who joined Apple in 1992 alongside Ive, instructed colleagues this month that he’s retiring, the article says, quoting unnamed “folks aware of the matter.” Andre was one of many final remaining designers from the Ive period — in reality, he was even at Apple previous to Steve Jobs returning to the helm within the late Nineties.
Andre is the newest member of Apple’s design group to depart. For instance, Apple’s (then) head of {hardware} design, Evans Hankey, introduced in October 2022 that she was leaving the tech large maker three years after taking the job.
Eight-year veteran Milk Silvanto left Apple in 2019 to affix Airbnb’s offshoot design studio and is becoming a member of the corporate’s housebuilding initiative. Three different members of the economic design group — Rico Zorkendorfer, Daniele De Iuliis, and Julian Hönig — additionally exited the tech large that 12 months.
Apple’s industrial design group is now led by chief working officer Jeff Williams. “Having an operations particular person oversee a division devoted to design and innovation has rankled some workers,” Bloomberg says. “….cost-cutting measures even have added to the unrest, they stated. Underneath I’ve, the group launched into exploratory initiatives that didn’t essentially have a right away payoff – one thing that’s been reigned in.”
