10 Things You Should Know About…
Jonathan Ive
1. In 1992, Jonathan Ive moved to San Francisco, from London where he was born and raised to begin his work with the Apple design team.
2. In 1998 he was appointed vice-president of industrial design at Apple. This was also the year in which the original iMac computer was launched.
3. In 2003 he won the Design Museum's first Designer of the Year prize.
4. In 2004 the multi-colored iPod mini went on the market. (I had a lime green one named Leonard)
5. In 2005 he was appointed senior vice-president of design at Apple.
6. In July 2008, Ive was awarded the MDA Personal Achievement award for the design of the iPhone
7. He has a Bachelor of Arts and an honorary doctorate from Newcastle Polytechnic.
8. Jonathan Ive has over 300 granted design patents to his name.
9. Fortune magazine named him as the "world's smartest designer" in 2010, for his work on Apple products.
10. He was voted the sixth most significant event in Apple Inc. history according to a recent Macworld poll.
Information from this post was found at:
http://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/online/jonathan-ive-on-apple/jonathan-ives-biography
http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/ive.html
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Jonathan_Ive
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