This month (November) of 2016, Apple released their first book know as, Design by Apple in California. The book includes 300 pages of 450 full-color photographs. The book comes in two different sizes, 10.2 x 12.8 inches and 13 x 16.3 inches. Both sizes have hardback linen covers, along with gilded matte silver edges on all the pages. This book is quite pricey, ranging from $199 to $299 depending on the size wanting to purchase. The introduction is by Jony Ive, photographs taken by Andrew Zuckerman.
This new book has 20 years of history included in it, 20 years of Apple design. The book is your basic picture book, which took Apple more than eight years to create. The history is displayed by way of photographs of all the Apple products within 20 years. This is a visual history spanning iMac to the Apple Pencil, complete with descriptions of innovative materials and techniques. The book is slightly outdated for being released in November of 2016. The book will not include the new line up of Macbook Pros or the iPhone 7, both released before the book. While creating this book, Apple had to go back out and buy it’s old products just to get photographs of them to put into the book.
To learn more about the Apple Book and to go about making a purchase, visit Apple’s website.