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I found this post about the resemblence between the industrial design of a 1960 speaker and the current iMac while browsing through the stuff I had missed on SVN the past couple weeks.

Wikipedia has a bit of information about Dieter Rams, the speaker’s designer as well as a few links to other articles about him including his personal ten principles that define good design.

Good design is innovative.
Good design makes a product useful.
Good design is aesthetic.
Good design helps us to understand a product.
Good design is unobtrusive.
Good design is honest.
Good design is durable.
Good design is consequent to the last detail.
Good design is concerned with the environment.
Good design is as little design as possible.
Back to purity, back to simplicity.