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University of Oxford Confers Honorary Doctorate on Jonathan Ive

University of Oxford Confers Honorary Doctorate on Jonathan Ive

Posted June 23, 2016 at 6:01pm by iClarified
The University of Oxford has conferred a Doctor of Science, honoris causa, on Apple's Jonathan Ive.

In total, nine distinguished figures received honorary degrees at the annual Encaenia ceremony on 22 June 2016.

Here's what Oxford had to say about Ive:


Sir Jonathan Ive is Chief Design Officer of Apple Inc and designer of the iMac, PowerBook, iBook, iPod, iPhone, iPad, AppleWatch and MacBook. Six of his products appear in the permanent collections of New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). In 2012, he received San Francisco MoMA's Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2013 he was awarded a gold Blue Peter Badge. His others accolades include an Inaugural Medal (1999) and Benjamin Franklin Medal (2004) of the Royal Society of Arts, the Design Museum London's first Designer of the Year award (2003), the Design and Art Direction (D&AD) President's Award and the Royal Academy of Engineering's President's Medal (both 2005), and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s Product Design Award (2007). In 2012, D&AD named Sir Jonathan's team at Apple the Best Design Studio of the past 50 years. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

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gamerscul9870
gamerscul9870 - June 23, 2016 at 8:55pm
Queer!
Stevenk
Stevenk - June 23, 2016 at 8:51pm
Wow, so what he will be called "Sir Dr. Mr Jonathan Ive" from now? :)
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