the man who has led Jaguar's visual metamorphosis over the past decade, Ian Callum, is the 2015 recipient of the Designer of the Year award, an honor bestowed on the individual deemed to be the most influential currently operating in UK design.
Presented by The Drum, the UK's biggest marketing publication, the award is based equally on overall career success, a person's influence within their professional sphere and their output over the last year.
Callum pushed Burberry's Christopher Bailey into third place and Maggie Hodgetts, head of graphic design at the upmarket Waitrose supermarket chain, into second place.
Born in Dumfries, Scotland in 1945, Ian Callum studied vehicular and industrial design as well as fine art before joining Ford as a designer in 1979. There he worked on a number of concept cars for Italian coachbuilder and design studio Ghia as well as on production Ford models before moving on to form his own company, and in doing so designed cars for Aston Martin, Volvo, Mazda and Nissan. He took up his current role at Jaguar in 1999. Of his approach to the creative process, Callum says that "Design creates order out of chaos, but chaos is often required simply to be creative."
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