The concept and the design of the body was made by the German industrial designer Richard Sapper.
Using the aesthetic of sculptural minimalism, they created the compact folding Grillo telephone for Siemens and Italtel in 1965.
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In 1980 Sapper was appointed principal industrial design consultant at IBM and began designing numerous portable computers, including the first ThinkPad 700C in 1992, which broke with the company's tradition of pearl-grey machines with a simple and elegant black rectangular box.
Before founding his own design studio in January 2003, Diez worked for Richard Sapper and then Konstantin Grcic.
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