Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design Jonathan Ive, born in England, has been honoured by Queen Elizabeth II as a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) for “services to design and enterprise”.
Ive, the winner of numerous awards including World’s Smartest Designer by Forbes magazine and the National Design award, holds about 400 design patents and has helped design the iPod, iPhone and Macbook Air. The KBE marks the second time Ive has been honoured by the Queen, following his recognition as a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 2005.
The BBC reported Ive calling the award “absolutely thrilling” and said he was sincerely grateful and humbled by the knighthood. “I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making I discovered at an early age that all I’ve ever wanted to do is design,” he told the news organisation.
Ive studied industrial design at Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University) and began his relationship with Apple in 1992 when the company’s then design chief Robert Brunner appointed him as a consultant through Ive’s London-based design agency Tangerine. Upon Steve Jobs’ return to Apple in 1997, Ive became senior vice president of industrial design and would go on to design some of Apple’s most iconic and best-reviewed products.
“What’s made him so outstandingly successful is the relationship he’s had with Steve Jobs and Apple,” Deyan Sudjic, director of The Design Museum, told the BBC. “He’s been working there for 19 years and has built up the kind of relationship that’s very rare.”
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