'Jonathan Ive, the Briton whose design career started with washbasins in Essex but who now works in California shaping Apple products such as the iMac computer and the iPod music player, won the inaugural Designer of the Year award last night.
'The prestigious prize from the Design Museum in London is worth �25,000 for "the UK designer that made the biggest contribution to design in the past year". Mr Ive, 36, who has been the vice-president of industrial design at Apple since 1998, received the prize after flying in from California, where he works at Apple's head office in Cupertino.
'"Jonathan's designs have touched millions of people's lives and transformed the workplace," said the fashion designer Sir Paul Smith, who was on the judging panel.'
'In the past year Apple has released new versions of the iMac, iPod and two versions of its PowerBook notebook computers, all designed by Mr Ive's team. He is a softly spoken man who gives interviews only rarely, and even less often reveals his opinions of other peoples' work. But in an exclusive interview with The Independent last year, he noted that those who mimicked his work were never successful. He said he was unimpressed by those who use, "swoopy shapes to look good, stuff that is so aggressively designed, just to catch the eye". He said: "I think that's arrogance, it's not done for the benefit of the user"...'
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