So I'm looking for a second-hand Mac with a plain body. I'll just have to live with the fact that it's public-service beige. Interior architect Ian Halliday, who has designed some of the most beautiful interiors in Sydney, including the Kirketon Hotel and restaurant Sailors Thai, where all the computers are cunningly hidden beneath counters, is also unconvinced by the iMac. We've got eight blue G3 Macs in two rows. It looks like alien cocoons have landed in the office.
Repetition can help anything.
A lot of offices have five different types of computers and that is an ugliness in itself. In the meantime, they are coping with the invasion of the bright blue pods by banning staff from even wearing other colours in the office. We have to wear neutrals, or it tips the balance. Pretty in Pink Having seen Apple break the beige mould, PC makers are gradually beginning to think outside the square. Perhaps the most dramatic deviation from the norm has come not from a computer company but from the toy maker Mattel.