AppleDesign: The Work of the Apple Industrial Design Group
| Author | Paul Kunkel; photographs by Rick English |
|---|---|
| Published | 1997 |
| Format | Book |
TL;DR — A 1997 illustrated history of Apple’s Industrial Design Group, from the Apple II through the mid-1990s, with photographs by Rick English.
Published by Graphis in 1997 for Apple’s twentieth anniversary. Paul Kunkel tells the story of Apple’s industrial design team, from the molded plastic case of the Apple II and the Snow White design language of the 1980s through the PowerBook and Newton era, with large product photographs by Rick English.
The jacket copy credits Apple with being the first to put a personal computer in a molded plastic case and the first to bring a graphical user interface to the mass market, and calls its design group the most creative in the world. The book profiles the designers and outside firms involved and the process behind individual products. It ends just before the iMac period, when Jony Ive was a member of the group but not yet its public face.
What it is: an out-of-print illustrated design history, written with Apple’s cooperation. The scan has OCR errors.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
286 pages. A PDF copy is held in Kyle’s private archive; it is not linked or shared here.