“Ive is renowned for having an ‘alchemical’ sense for engineering, and the limits of what one can do with metal. As design expert Stephen Bayley puts it: ‘He thinks and thinks about what a product should be and then worries it into existence.’”
—From this great piece on Jonathan Ive from the … *shudder* … Daily Mail.. I’m sorry.. (via jonic)
Still they couldn’t resist the ‘polytechnic’ dig.