Now in its eighth year, Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will celebrate outstanding achievement in design this fall with its annual National Design Awards. Today, Cooper-Hewitt director Paul Warwick Thompson announced the winners and finalists of the 2007 National Design Awards, recognizing excellence across various disciplines, including architecture, communications, fashion, interior, landscape and product design.
The Award recipients will be honored at an Oct. 18 gala dinner at Cooper-Hewitt. Mrs. Laura Bush serves as the Honorary Patron for this year’s National Design Awards.“Cooper-Hewitt’s National Design Awards continue to provide a vital platform for the recognition and discussion of the role of design in our everyday lives,” said Thompson. “We are delighted to recognize this year’s accomplished group of honorees, who represent the very best in design and contribute immensely to a diverse range of fields.”
The 2007 National Design Awards nominations were solicited from a committee of more than 800 leading designers, educators, journalists, cultural figures and corporate leaders from every state in the nation. A jury of experts, selected by Cooper-Hewitt, reviewed the nominations and selected finalists and winners in each category. Further broadening the scope of the Awards program, Cooper-Hewitt will hold the second annual National Design Week this fall. Throughout the week, the museum will host a series of public programs and celebrate design on its Web site with initiatives such as the People’s Design Award, which gives the general public an opportunity to nominate and vote for a design of their choice by logging onto http://www.cooperhewitt.org
Product Design, Jonathan Ive
Given for work in the design of consumer goods, technology or home and office furnishings, the 2007 Product Design Award is presented to Jonathan Ive, the senior vice president of industrial design at Apple Inc., where, since 1996, he has led a product design team widely regarded as one of the industry’s best. Ive’s streamlined design aesthetic, combined with a strong knowledge of the engineering process, has brought design into the public consciousness in an unprecedented way. Creating some of the most innovative products of the past decade, ranging from the iMac and iBook to the now iconic iPod, Ive has not only made complex technological devices user-friendly, he has designed sculptural, desirable objects. He was named Designer of the Year (2003) by the Design Museum of London, awarded the title Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts and was included as a finalist in this category in 2006. Apple was included in the 2000 and 2006 National Design Triennials and won the 2000 Corporate Achievement Award.
See all of the award winners here.
The best industrial designer since Raymond Lowey.
Well deserved!
He’s no Jonny-come-lately. More like Ive-y league.
Rock on Jonny!!
M n’C do you mean:
Raymond Loewy?
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Congrats Jonathan, very deserved. A genius, and one of my personal heroes (Jobs is another). THANK YOU for the great work. Can’t wait to see what you will do in the future!
Almost Sir Jonathan is so The Best!
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Congratulations Jon. DNA would have been proud.
Not bad for a lad from Chingford.
@ FUDsuck Proxy: Raymond Lowey designed, among other things, the Studebaker Avanti, the Skylab interior,Internatonal Harvestor Caterpillar tractor Sears Coldspot refrigerator, re-designed the Coca-Cola bottle, Pepsodent packaging, logos for Shell, Exxon, BP, etc.
Mac n’ Cheese: And to FUDsucker’s point, his name is spelled Loewy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Loewy
ChrissyOne: Is Ive a fan of THGTTG?
Meanwhile, the intern that designed the Zune is knotting a rope and slugging down cheap whiskey.
Raymond Lowey also designed the 1953 Studebaker Starliner coupe (photos at http://www.hubcapcafe.com/ocs/pages01/stud5305.htm), which is generally considered one of the most beautiful car designs of the 20th century. Loewy also designed a matching 2 seater roadster to complement the coupe, but the Studebaker board of directors nixed the idea, fools that they were. Had they not done so, Studebaker would have been ahead of both the Corvette and the Thunderbird with an American sports car.
@ No Squirt For You
Well, he built one, didn’t he? =)
Microsoft has a lot in common with Studebaker.
Like Studebaker was, it’s being run by blockheads who have a thing for dictators with spare tires. And like Studebaker, the blockheads will drive it into the ground.
Mr. Ive….Feed me till I want no more!
Kudos to you my son, KUDOS to you.
To the Victor the spoils & all the other cliches that can be musterd in your Honour.
From the website :
“September 10–October 16, 2007 : People’s Design Award
The People’s Design Award gives the general public an opportunity to nominate and vote for a design of their choice by logging on to http://www.cooperhewitt.org.”
iCal this. We can go vote for Jonny again !
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Nice one Jon….
One of our best exports to date.
One is pleased with One’s subject!
I hope he enjoys what he’s doing with Apple. I wonder if he could lead Apple, and hopes to do so one day?
And Steve Jobs is the only one any one talks about…
It’s time for Ive to get some fresh ideas or get out to pasture.
Very cute guy too this Jonathan Ive. Hmmm only gay men can do such a fine work
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woo hoo!
Mac n Cheese???!
It’s called Kraft Dinner