Apple design legend Jony Ive curated a collection of future-facing work from emerging artists — check out his picks

Annabel Garcia-Kurland

• Former Apple design chief Sir Jony Ive is the current chancellor of the Royal College of Art, a prestigious art and design institution based in London.
• He has just curated a collection for the RCA's annual graduate show, held this year online for the first time thanks to disruption caused by the pandemic.
• Ive's curated collection, "Optimistic, Singular and New", comprises work from graduate creatives across the fields of architecture, arts and humanities, communications, and design.
• Check out some of Ive's picks below.
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Jony Ive, the influential Apple designer who stepped down from the company in 2019, is helping foster a new generation of artistic and creative talent.

In 2017, Ive was appointed chancellor of the Royal College of Art (RCA), a prestigious London institution for art and design whose alumni includes the painter David Hockney, architect Thomas Heatherwick, and designer and engineer James Dyson.

Ive has been a huge influence on everyday technology, having designed the iPhone, iPod, iPad, MacBook, and Apple Watch, and left Apple last year to pursue his own projects.

This week, the RCA launched its 2020 graduate show online for the first time thanks to disruption by the pandemic — including a collection curated by the former Apple designer.

Business Insider picked out a selection of work from Ive's curated artists below. You can also see the full collection here.

Jony Ive's collection is called 'Optimistic, Singular and New'

RCA

Ive notes that the RCA's graduates will have had to contend with the pandemic, saying: "There is a clarity and boldness that perhaps speaks to the absence of familiar tools or the usual distractions."

He continues: "To reconsider fundamental approaches to their work at a time of complete chaos and uncertainty demonstrates a remarkable drive and resolve and is ultimately a victory for creativity in its many areas of practice. This is a particular body of work that I believe will be regarded as significant in the future."

Read on for a selection of artists and their work from the 'Optimistic, Singular and New' collection.

 

Rosa Whiteley's 'In the Pink'

Rosa Whiteley

Architecture student Rosa Whiteley says her work "addresses the longstanding phenomena of pink death clouds that periodically dominate the arctic atmosphere."

'The toxic and metallic footprints of the death clouds onto the ground have created dead zones, dead forests, dead lakes, dead taxa, and dead people.'

Rosa Whiteley

Check out Whiteley's full project.

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