About iMac G3 Bondi Blue (1998)
The Bondi Blue iMac G3 was Apple's resurrection artifact — a translucent egg-shaped polycarbonate shell that made technology feel like jewelry. Jony Ive's 1998 design replaced beige anonymity with teal-cyan transparency, inviting users to see inside and trust what they found.
This system captures that specific optimism: saturated Bondi Blue backgrounds, generous white content surfaces, jellybean-pill buttons, and soft translucent overlays that echo the polycarbonate case. Everything curves, everything glows faintly, everything says "the internet is friendly."
- Origin
- Cupertino, California
- Era
- 1998 launch; Bondi Blue original through Five Flavors 1999; discontinued 2003
- Key figures
- Steve Jobs · Jony Ive · Phil Schiller · Avie Tevanian
- Movements
- late-1990s translucent-electronics aesthetic · post-beige-PC consumer-tech design · 'i' prefix branding wave
iMac G3 Bondi Blue (1998) design spec
Colors
Typography
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