Come già accaduto tempo fa i Rave Awards del magazine ipertecnologico Wired non riescono proprio a dimenticarsi di Apple.
Per la quarta edizione il giornale ha annunciato i vincitori, tra i nominati delle tredici categorie elencate a pagina 56 del numero di febbraio attualmente in edicola.
Apple con il team di sviluppo di OS X si porta a casa il premio per il miglior “software design”; purtroppo l’altra nomination nella categoria “industrial design” assegnata ad Apple, più precisamente al team di design industriale, quello di Jonathan Ive che ha prodotto il nuovo iMac LCD, non è stato ugualmente premiato.
A margine segnaliamo anche la presenza di un politico italiano nella sezione “politician”.
Ricordiamo le nomination, con i rispettivi vincitori (in neretto):
ARCHITECT
Tadao Ando (Modern Art Museum – Fort Worth, Texas); Zaha Hadid (Bergisel Ski Jump – Innsbruck, Austria); Hiroshi Hara (Sapporo Dome – Sapporo, Japan); Steven Holl (Simmons Hall, MIT – Cambridge, Massachusetts); Christopher Sharples, William Sharples, Coren Sharples, Kimberly Holden e Gregg Pasquarelli [SHoP Architects] (Rector Street Pedestrian Bridge – New York City).
ARTIST/PERFORMER
Natalie Jeremijenko (Feral – Robotic Dogs); Rafael Lozano (Hemmer -Two Origins); Baz Luhrmann e Catherine Martin (La Bohème); Steve Reich e Beryl Korot (Three Tales); Ben Rubin e Mark Hansen (Listening Post)
AUTHOR
Albert-Là¡szlà³ Barabà¡si (Linked: The New Science of Networks); Paul Di Filippo (Babylon Sisters); Ben Mezrich (Bringing Down the House); Gregory Stock (Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future); Stephen Wolfram (A New Kind of Science)
BUSINESSPERSON
Jeff Bezos (Founder, CEO e Chairman, Amazon.com); Reed Hastings (Cofounder e CEO, Netflix); David Neeleman (Founder e CEO, JetBlue Airways); Larry Probst (CEO e Chairman, Electronic Arts); Eric Schmidt, CEO e Chairman / Larry Page, Cofounder e President, Technology / Sergey Brin, Cofounder e President, Products (Google)
FILM DIRECTOR
Spike Jonze (Adaptation); Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away); Sam Raimi (Spider-Man); Steven Soderbergh (Full Frontal, Solaris); Steven Spielberg (Minority Report)
GAME DESIGNER
Shun Arai (Jet Set Radio Future – Smilebit/SEGA); Leslie Benzies (Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – Rockstar Games); Shigeru Miyamoto (Super Mario Sunshine – Nintendo); Toshihiro Nagoshi (Super Monkey Ball 2 – SEGA); Will Wright (The Sims Online – Electronic Arts)
INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER
The Apple Industrial Design Team, iMac (Apple); Chris Borroni-Bird e Ed Welburn, Hy-wire e AUTOnomy concept car (General Motors); Naoto Fukasawa e IDEO Japan, CD Player (Muji); Teiyu Goto, Vaio W (Sony); Matias Duarte, Joe Palmer e Andy Johnston, hiptop (Danger and Function Engineering)
MUSICIAN
Boards of Canada (Geogaddi); Dan the Automator (Laika Come Home); Eminem (The Eminem Show); Paul Oakenfold (Bunkka); Wilco (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)
POLITICIAN
Congressman Rick Boucher (D – Virginia); Senator Maria Cantwell (D – Washington); Marco Cappato (Member, European Parliament); Tara Sue Grubb, Congressional Candidate 2002 (L – North Carolina); Attorney General Eliot Spitzer (D – NewYork)
SCIENTIST
Angela Belcher (biomolecular materials, MIT); Jeffrey Hangst, anti-atomic physics (University of Aarhus / ATHENA Experiment, CERN); Sean Morrison, stem cell biology (University of Michigan) e Cofounder (Cancer Stem Cell Genomics); Craig Venter, genomics (The Institute for Genomics Research); Stephen Wolfram, CEO (Wolfram Research)
SOFTWARE DESIGNER
The Apple OS X team (Apple); Butler Lampson e Chuck Thacker, Tablet PC (Microsoft); Christopher Montgomery, Ogg Vorbis (Xiphophorus Foundation); Ray Ozzie, Groove (Groove Networks); Jordan Ritter, SpamNet (Cloudmark)
TV CREATOR
J.J. Abrams, Alias (ABC); Robert Cochran and Joel Surnow, 24 (Fox); Simon Fuller, American Idol (Fox); Steven Spielberg, Taken (Sci Fi); Anthony Zuiker, CSI (CBS)
WIRED RENEGADE OF THE YEAR
Miguel de Icaza, Mono Project (Ximian); Senator John McCain (R – Arizona); David Neeleman, Founder e CEO (JetBlue Airways); Sherron Watkins, former Vice President of Corporate Development (Enron); Stephen Wolfram, Scientist e CEO (Wolfram Research) Author, A New Kind of Science.
