Jony Ive is bringing his design talents to… Airbnb

I’m not going to fake it makes apparent sense, however famed former Apple designer Jony Ive and his agency LoveFrom will quickly be working for Airbnb. Yes, the corporate that primarily makes it simple so that you can hire somebody else’s house wants design assist, they usually’re going to the person finest identified for turning shopper tech on its head — in addition to the occasional all-diamond diamond ring, a Christmas tree that is really only a tree, and {a magazine} cowl with no content material.

So when you’ve been been postpone renting certainly one of Airbnb’s not too long ago launched, exorbitantly priced Luxe lodging as a result of they’ve too many furnishings, maybe this is simply the ticket? Dude loves minimalism.

Airbnb is calling the deal a “special collaboration” in addition to a “multi-year relationship to design the next generation of Airbnb products and services,” and that Ive will assist develop Airbnb’s inner design crew as nicely — which has apparently undergone some turmoil. The Information is reporting three senior designers have not too long ago left the crew and design chief Alex Schleifer has been moved to a part-time position.

Ive and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky have apparently been associates for years, with Ive going as far as to pen a 2015 mini-profile of the Airbnb chief for Time Magazine, praising the corporate’s web site design.

Maybe he can repair the corporate’s sadly formed emblem.

Ive nonetheless counts Apple as a shopper, by the way in which, despite the fact that he left final November. We had fairly a couple of ideas on the time: