Jonathan Ive Named Designer of the Year

no_demons writes "Jonathan Ive, the man behind the iMac and the iPod, has won the first Designer of the Year award from the Design Museum in London. The Independent has the scoop, and BBC2 has the documentary on Wednesday, June 11th."

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[corebreech]

Almost any room you put a new Mac in is going to look ugly by comparison.

I want to see the iRoom. With an iDesk, an iLamp, and an iSeat.

Them maybe we talk about awards and such.

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[berniecase]

God, that's the truth. I've got this ugly desk with my cinema display, and the desk just looks like crap compared to everything else. See for yourself:

• With Cinema Display
• With flat-panel iMac
• With Y2K PowerBook
• With Blue & White PowerMac and 17" CRT

Any way you slice it, the compuer always looks better than the desk. I'm trying to find a decent glass desk to compliment the computer, but then I'll need to see about getting rid of the crappy carpet in here.

Re:Not yet

[cioxx]

Go into nearest IKEA (Office section) and look for the Glass surface desk. It's not available in the web catalogue and I saw one as recently as last month.

These things really emphasize the mental asylum enveloped in minimalism if you work hard enough on arranging the shit around and stealthing the cables and such out of the view.

Wood desks are so last century. The rule of thumb is: the computer environment should be at least 1/4th of the price of the hardware that sits on top and beneath it.

Re:Innovative

[Anonymous Coward]

Even if that word [innovative] has lost most of it's meaning with the use of it by a certain Northwest company.

Yeah, Alaska Airlines has totally lost its edge.

AUGH!

[Anonymous Coward]

Too many fuckin links, you fuckin tools! I'm looking at the story going, "shit, what the fuck do I click?" I try one. Shit! It's the goddamn iMac site. I KNOW what an iMac looks like, you morons, I'm from EARTH. So I try another one. Augh! Fuckin "Design Museum" site! Bitches! Screw this!

This reminds me of 19-fuckin-93, when hyperlinks were this new and kewl thing. D00D! I can make words to things! So whenever I type "iMac" I should make it link to the iMac site! KEWL! I AM MAD SKILLZ WEBMASTAR!

You guys suck. Oh, you guys suck.

Nobody told me.

[Ignominious Poltroon]

Nobody told me this design award was up for grabs. If they had, I would have sent in photos of my cool case mod, which is entirely made of potato chips and twine. That would have easily clinched it.

Gotta say it

[Faust7]

The "Dyson" computer

Skynet? :)

Headline for dyslexic people?

[FryGuy1013]

Did anyone else read the headline as "Ive named Jonathan Designer of the year," then immediately went to look for comments on not putting an apostrophe in Ive, then realize what the headline actually said? I know I did.

Name?

[lostchicken]

In keeping with Apple naming, shouldn't his name be Jonathan iVe?

I nominate...

[dafoomie]

I'd like to nominate this
for design of the year. It really makes everything around it look so much better.

Re:iPod meets car hood

[Anonymous Coward]

I've gotta post this anonymously. My friend had his iPod and I was working on my car. He had a look at something and handed the iPod to me. I had to look under the car as well so I set the iPod next to the hood latch. 30 seconds later I try to close the hood, it won't latch. So I try harder, 2 more times...arg stupid hood....oh holy crap, what have I done I thought to myself. So I grab his iPod (which was only protected by that little bag apple gives you) and give it a quick run through- everything was fine! I never told him. Am I a jerk or what? Thanks apple for quality construction.

oh and after that my hood closed fine as well.

Re:congrats

[SmittyTheBold]

Yeah, I know what you mean.

I used images.google to find a picture of this "cannon g5" and boy, you weren't kidding! That's the least-camera-like thing I've ever seen!