14 DAY TRIAL // The Business Outreach Team of the UK’s Intellectual Property Office has given Apple’s design chief, Sir Jonathan Ive, the British Visionary Innovator Award.
The nominees were announced earlier this month as achievers of “considerable success” and people who displayed “visionary behaviour in spotting ‘The Next Big Thing’”. Others developed “innovate products, services or designs never seen before,” said Britain’s IP office.
Ive seems to engulf all, winning by quite a margin, with almost half of the entire vote count (46.6%). The second place was reserved for Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who only came up with the world wide web (18.8 per cent of the votes), and the third was James Goodfellow OBE, the inventor of PIN technology and the cash machine.
Congrats to Jony Ive for his award. May he come up with one revolutionary design after another!