(Watch the video) Jonathan Ive, Apple’s senior vice president of Industrial Design, noted that, "Traditionally notebooks are made from multiple parts. With the new MacBook, we’ve ...

Not that long ago, however, notebooks were a novel concept. One of the first such devices was the GRiD Compass, designed by industrial designer Bill Moggridge and manufactured by GRiD Systems Corp.

The demise of I.D. magazine leads Tucker Viemeister to examine the term “industrial design” and what it has meant throughout the years. This is a question my dad, Read Viemeister, and his ...