New Year Honours list 2012: Apple’s Jonathan Ive gets an OBE

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New Year Honours list 2012: Apple’s Jonathan Ive gets an OBE

January 1st, 2012

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Pamela Owen

Last updated at 4:00 PM on 31st December 2011

Jonathan Ive, the man credited with designing some of Apple’s most successful products including the iPod, has received a Knighthood in the New Year Honours.

Ive, who is Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design, was recognised by the Queen for ‘services to design and enterprise’.

He described the honour as thrilling and said he felt humbled by it.

Sir Jonathan Ive was honoured by the Queen for services to design and enterprise

‘I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making,’ he said.

‘To be recognised with this honour is absolutely thrilling and I am both humbled and sincerely grateful.

The late Steve Jobs with the Apple Nano

‘I discovered at an early age that all I’ve ever wanted to do is design. I feel enormously fortunate that I continue to be able to design and make products with a truly remarkable group of people here at Apple.’

The 44-year-old, who was born in Chingford, north London, studied design at the University of Northumbria and joined Apple in 1992, where he has been based in California ever since.

In 2003 he was named Designer of the Year by the Design Museum in London and was given the title Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts.

He has also won the prestigious Industrial Design Excellence Award in the USA.

Ive, who has been described as a perfectionist, first worked on the iMac, an all-in-one personal computer where all the physical components and screen were packaged together.

He then led a design team in creating the iPod, iPhone, iPad and a number of other well-known products.

The company’s late chief executive Steve Jobs created Mr Ive’s position within the company so he could work without interference from others.

Mr Jobs pictured in 1998 with the iMac which was one of Sir Jonathan's first designs

Mr Jobs pictured in 1998 with the iMac which was one of Sir Jonathan’s first designs

According to Walter Isaccson’s biography Mr Jobs said of Mr Ive: He’s not just a designer. That’s why he works directly for me. He has more operational power than anyone else at Apple except me. There’s no one who can tell him what to do, or to butt out. That’s the way I set it up.’

It is also believed that Ive was deeply upset at the press coverage when Mr Jobs took leave to recover from cancer.

It was reported that without the chief executive at the helm, the company would fail to be innovative.

Ive believed that this underplayed his influence within the company.

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Blooming fantastic! Great news! Well done Jonathan xx

– Woman, Of the World, 31/12/2011 15:34

One of the few honours I agree with. Apple would be nothing without Ive. Jobs may have got the plaudits but its Ive’s designing brilliance that has been the driving force behind apple’s sales.

– Russ, Unfortunately UK, 31/12/2011 14:28

At least someone who earned it got one congratulations.

– ray, southampton, 31/12/2011 14:00

This is a real genius who has worked in the shadow of the late Steve Jobs. All credit to him for his OBE and thoroughly deserved for what he’s brought to us in technology. Well done.

– Kenny, Kent, 31/12/2011 13:12

Well deserved!

– lisa, cork, 31/12/2011 13:12

Good on him, about time too! It’s only fair that Johnathan is recognised for all his hard work, as a lot of the time Steve Jobs gets the credit for it!

– Tony Walsh, Chester, 31/12/2011 13:04

the british invent. the americans make the money…..
penicillin, tv, the phone,the binary system(computors) the www, the ipod……strange eh?

– cynic, uk, 31/12/2011 12:58

These awards mean absolutely notyhing. They go to the well paid, mainly entertainers or sports people. The normal people in the street have the odd one thrown out to keep them quiet nut basically if you aint rich and famous, the state doesn’t care.

– I may be wrong but I am entitled to say it, Here, 31/12/2011 12:58

That’s okay but some of the awards are incredibly bizarre.
A couple of years ago the Mail ran a story saying Fred Goodwin would be stripped of his knighthood.
We’re still waiting!!
Why is it that people like Blank, Goodwin, Crosby and King keep their knighthoods after doing so much harm to Britain and her people?
Answers please on a postcard to the editor at the Mail!!!

– Frank Observer, Ireland, 31/12/2011 12:44

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