BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts hello,
I'm Lauren Laverne and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast.
Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks,
book and luxury they'd want to take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
And for rights reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast.
I hope you enjoy listening.
My castaway this week is the designer Sir Jony I've.
He is by any measure one of the most, if not the most celebrated and influential designers today.
The products he created at Apple alongside his best friend and colleague, the late Steve Jobs,
have changed our lives and our world in ways west still only just beginning to understand.
His designs for phones,
music players and watches shifted our ideas about what a computer could be and do,
taking what was once a workplace tool and making it personal,
something we carry with us or even wear.
In the process, they helped to make Apple the world's first trillion dollar company.
His father was a silversmith and influential educator who spent his working life making sure design was taken seriously as part of the British school curriculum and by his son.
Though the projects they worked on together, including a go kart,
a tree house and a toboggan, were often devised for fun.
His name is on over 14,000 patents worldwide and alongside technological icons.
His creations include a comb, a desk and a foldable comic relief red nose.