Remember when we referred to the latest of Apple's sixty trillion design awards, due largely to the endeavors of design guru Jonathan "Don't Hate Me Because I'm Tasteful" Ive? Well, it's been minutes since Apple won that thing, so clearly it's time for another one-- except this one's just a teensy bit different: it's not for Apple, but actually for Mr. Ive himself. Get this: the guy's been named "Designer of the Year." No foolin'! According to BBC News, Jon-Jon has been identified by London's Design Museum as "the UK designer that made the biggest contribution to design in the past year." Woo-hoo! Props for the brain behind the beauty.

The article includes a couple of obligatory Ive factbites, like the way he consulted candy makers when designing the iMac's translucent colored shell and came up with the design for Apple's Pro Mouse by looking at a drop of water-- and while it does note in passing that, before coming to Apple, Ive designed washbasins (we call 'em "sinks" this side of the pond), it neglects to mention that, had Microsoft gone ahead with the ill-conceived public health hazard known as the iLoo, Apple could have spanked that product halfway to Belize, because Ive once designed toilets, too. A guy who can design computers and toilets? Now that there is what we call a Renaissance Man. Because lots of people designed computers and toilets during the Renaissance.

Not that this award comes as any real surprise, of course, because Ive just oozes style. It's actually kind of a problem; we hear he oozed it all over the couch at Steve's "Six Feet Under" finale party over the weekend. It's apparently a glandular condition-- but what a glandular condition it is! What's a few upholstery cleaning bills to a man who just scored £25,000? That's right, kids, twenty-five large-- and in British pounds, which is equivalent to over forty grand in real money. (Ha, ha! Just a joke, foreign friends! Please don't hit us!)

So, big fat congrats to Jon Ive, the man responsible for classing up our joint simply by ensuring that the computers we buy anyway just happen to double as high art. And we're not just saying that in hopes that he cuts us in on that sweet, sweet Designer of the Year monetary action. Really! Heck, if we really wanted the cash, we could just blackmail him with the knowledge that in his youth he designed the Booger Hollow Double Decker Outhouse under a pseudonym and-- uh, we've said too much already...