Another Apple industrial designer who worked under Jony Ive is set to leave Apple soon as nearly the entire original design team who worked at the company over the past few decades is “dissolved,” reports Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman.
Duncan Kerr has been a designer at Apple for over 25 years after joining in 1999, working on the company’s most iconic products like the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Kerr has reportedly informed Apple that he plans to depart soon, marking yet another senior exit from Apple following the likes of Bart Andre and Peter-Russell Clarke.
With Kerr’s planned exit, very few designers of the legendary team assembled under Jony Ive remain left at Apple, as nearly the entire team has now been gutted. The report adds that only three Ive-era designers still remain at Apple, namely Richard Howarth, Molly Anderson, and Ben Shaffer. Several software and user interface designers, a team led by Alan Dye, have also departed Apple in recent months.
Most of Apple’s ex-industrial designers who didn’t retire have joined Ive’s LoveFrom design consultancy following his departure from the Cupertino company in 2019. The firm collaborated with various clients, including Airbnb and Ferrari. Notably, LoveFrom had a design contract with Apple, which concluded in 2022. A product with publicly known ties to Ive and LoveFrom is the most recent iMac redesign, which launched in 2021.
