Jony Ive, senior vice president of the division that produces product design Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), and of the division that develops iOS, will be awarded by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for the achievements of his entire career. The awarding ceremony will take place on October 30 and Jony Ive will enter a select list of awardees, the creator Star Wars, George Lucas, receiving the award in 2013. The museum names Ive as one of the most influential and innovative people who have contributed to the evolution of industrial design in recent years.
Ive is our generation's most innovative and influential figure in the field of industrial design—no other design mind has done more to transform the way we visualize and share information. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast to establish a department of architecture and design, and we're thrilled to celebrate Ive's revolutionary achievements. With a significant collection of 20th- and 21st-century consumer electronics, the department is now engaged in a long-term investigation of how best to collect, maintain, and interpret those holdings in dialogue with leading Bay Area–based designers including Ive.
This is the second modern art museum in the USA to celebrate the talent of Jony Ive, the Museum of Modern Art in New York dedicating an entire gallery to the senior vice president of Apple just a few years ago. Jony Ive is, probably after Tim Cook, the most influential person within the Apple company and thanks to him the products of those from Cupertino are so loved all over the world, he being a central piece in the future evolution of Apple.
