Apple’s longest-serving designer, Bart Andre, retiring from company

Apple’s longest-serving senior industrial designer, Bart Andre, who joined Apple in 1992 alongside Jony Ive, is retiring from the company, Bloomberg News reports citing “people familiar with the matter.”

Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
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The designer was on of Ive’s top lieutenants and helped run the team after former chief Evans Hankey, Ives’ successor, departed last year… Andre was one of the last remaining designers from the Ive era and helped create the aesthetic for Apple products released over the past three decades — even prior to Steve Jobs returning to the helm in the late 1990s.

The departure is the latest in recent months for the group. Top designers Colin Burns, Shota Aoyagi, and Peter Russell-Clarke all left around the end of last year. Multiple longtime designers on Apple’s software design team have also signaled they are planning to leave in the near future.

Both the industrial-design and user-interface teams are overseen by Jeff Williams, the company’s chief operating officer. He’s held that role since Ive’s departure in 2019, but took on direct management of the industrial-design team when Hankey left.

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MacDailyNews Take: Have a happy and long retirement, Mr. Andre!
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