VP of design David Hill has just published a new blog post discussing the surprisingly fast (initial) design process for the sexy new Skylight smartbook.
Lenovo turned quite a lot of heads at CES this year and their Skylight smartbook was a big part of that. So sleek, so thin and so light – it goes past anything Lenovo had designed in the past. You might be surprised to know that Richard Sapper, the world famous designer who first came up with the ThinkPad design, was contacted for Skylight.
Sapper was clearly interested in breaking the mold with us. His enthusiasm dimmed, however, when he was informed of the deadline for completing the design concept. The design had to be locked before the Christmas holiday in order to maintain the very aggressive schedule. I think the words Sapper used were “you must be joking, I need time to design such a thing” . The worst part was that it had not been formally decided if Sapper would be retained to create the design.
Read the rest of the insightful post at Design Matters
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