Jonathan Ive

Jony Ive wins British Visionary Innovator Award

Sir Jonathan Ive, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, has won the “British Visionary Innovator” award given out by the UK’s Intellectual Property Office in honor of World IP Day. The designer topped a list of ten notable designers, inventors, and other creative people, including Tim Berners Lee, J.K. Rowling, and Simon Cowell.

Jony deserves all of the awards and accolades he gets.

Jonathan Ive on making new Apple products

Q: What are your goals when setting out to build a new product?A: Our goals are very simple — to design and make better products. If we can’t make something that is better, we won’t do it.

And that, in a nutshell, is what Apple’s competition doesn’t get.

Apple’s Jonathan Ive awarded knighthood

BBC:

Jonathan Ive, Apple’s head of design, has been awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours list.Mr Ive, who can now style himself Sir Jonathan, has been made a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE).

Very nice, congrats to Jonathan.