After a week of voting, voters have chosen Sir Jonathan Ive as their favorite British Visionary Innovator for 2012. He received 46.6% of your votes, making him the clear favorite from a list of other hugely-talented, creative and innovative people.
Sir Jonathan Ive was born in Chingford, London in 1967. A graduate of Newcastle Polytechnic, Ive showed a flair for Industrial Design which led him to work for Apple briefly in 1992, and then as a permanent fixture with Apple under the leadership of Steve Jobs in 1997.
Over the past 15 years, Ive has designed some of the most popular electronic products of all time, which have now reached iconic status. These include iMac, Macbook, iPhone, iPad, and of course, the iPod.
Some of the accolades that he has had bestowed upon him include ‘Most Influential Person on British Culture’ (BBC), ‘Inventor of the decade’ (Guardian), and he was knighted in 2012.
Finally, today, voters have named hime favorite British Visionary Innovator of 2012.
MacDailyNews Take: Yup, you knew what to do.
Congrats, Sir Jony!
Source: Intellectual Property Office
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…and thank all that is good that Simon Cowell came in dead last.
+∞!
It would seem a bit of a popularity contest. To be completely honest, I would’ve put Tim Berners Lee above Jony, but Tim doesn’t have the “cool” card, and is less known.
another +∞!
“Over the past 15 years, Ive has submitted designs of some of the most popular electronic products of all time, commissioned, co-conceived and approved by Steve Jobs, worked on and improved upon by myriad of other industry leading Apple groups including the brilliant software teams, which have now reached iconic status. These include iMac, Macbook, iPhone, iPad, and of course, the iPod.”
There, corrected the typos for the hysteric Brits.
Funny only you seem to have made an issue of it.
Dear Brits,
Is there no one else to give awards to over there? That is all. Carry on.
Just jealous that we own your creative industry, not to mention that a fair percentage of the technology that makes you money was invented by Brits.
Your kidding right? “Brits own our creative industry” 😀
How many awards u gonna give this Limey who wouldn’t be shit without Apple. US owns the IT industry u moron stop talking out of ur ass. Silicon Valley is in US not UK.
Another thing I notice they keep giving this Limey awards over and over again in some desperate attempt to credit him with Apple’s success, surely u Brits have more to be proud of other then him. Fact is the heart of Apple is Software & everybody knows it. No one would buy Apple stuff if iOS or OS X sucked. Ive is talented but without Steve/Apple he would be designing night lamps.
My sentiments, exactly.
Are we all forgetting ARM processors?
You may not like the “Brits” but they do invent some awesome stuff.
They are not very good at making and merchandising their inventions, but that cannot be a reason to denigrate their achievements.
No, I am not British.