The chief designer of Apple, Jonathan Ive, knighted. He goes from now on through life as ‘knight in the order of the British empire’. It is the second time that the industrial designer, by the British royal family is distinguished.
Jonathan Ive, since 1992, for Apple works, and was responsible for his visual design of many Apple products, says in a reaction against the BBC’s ‘humbled and grateful’ to be.
It is the second time that the British royal family Jonathan Ive award grants. In 2005 he was appointed as ‘commander’.
Also the Russian-Dutch physicist Andre Geim, who last year one of the two winners of the Nobel prize for Physics, was a knightly distinction. Geim was one of the discoverers of graphene. With their new award are Ive and Geim in good company. Also Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, is ‘Knight Commander’.