I got to know David Hill, Lenovo's industrial design chief, when I was working on The Race for Perfect. Here he tells a wonderful story about how legendary designer Richard Sapper created the design for Lenovo's breakthrough smartbook, called Skylight. What strikes me is how passionate Sapper is about design, even in his 80s. He wanted to participate in this project so badly that he started working on spec, hoping for later approval by Lenovo's brass--which he got. Sapper and Hill had to ask for help from all sorts of unlikely sources to get the project off the ground, including a violin maker who Sapper met at a party and Hill's Photoshop genius son. Read and enjoy: http://lenovoblogs.com/designmatters/