typestorming
Approximate Size of the iPhone and the death to the clickwheel
2007June 27
The eagerly awaited iPhone is coming on Friday; unfortunately here in europe we have to wait another 6 months and there are still a lot of questions. Will it support UMTS? Does this mean a tradeoff in battery livetime, Is there (and if so, who will be) an exclusive carrier over here … nobody knows … meanwhile you can use The Definitive Guide to Determining the Approximate Size of the iPhone to check out the exact size.—enjoy your meal ;)For optimal feel, use two crackers …
Another more serious and very interesting article is about the death of the clickwheel:
Steve Jobs and Co. are pitching the new iPhone as “our best iPod ever” and at the same time changing the basic user interface that made the iPod so successful. This is no small step. In fact, it is a sign of Apple’s ambitions for the iPhone that the company was willing to abandon its signature interface for the untested waters of the iPhone’s multitouch display.
Panorama morning programme hacked
2007June 24
Ztohoven artistic group hacked into the Panorama morning programme of public Czech Television’s CT2 channel with an image of a mushroom cloud.
apple.com new design
2007June 14
before (November 2000)
before (2007)
now (white)
now (black)
submenu before
submenu now
very nice “side salad”—particularly the left one:
Hopefully Apple fixes this Quicktime bug (overlay) and comes up with a solution – we would also need that pretty bad for one of our projects.
Overall very intuitive, though on some pages the “transition” is not quite completed yet. Also love the use of JavaScript goodness, and they choose to use the script.aculo.us effects framework for that, which is extraced from wollzelle’s fluxiom application. So check it out: www.apple.com
Other nice things announced at the WWDC:
Safari 3.0 for Windows. This will make it easier for Windows users to test their websites and implement iPhone apps.
Design Awards—this year’s winners!
London 2012 logo
2007June 08
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Locog) has unveiled its branding for the 2012 Games, based around the concept of “Everyone’s Games”. The logo, devised by Wolff Olins, will be available in four colours pink, blue, green and orange.
It starts to earn a lot of critizism, more than 80 per cent of the respondents to a BBC online poll disapproved of the logo. Also animated footage promoting the logo for the 2012 London Olympic Games was removed from the organisers’ Web site amid concern it could trigger epileptic fits.
It looks pretty random and it takes a while to discover the number 2012 in the logo but on the other hand I don’t think that a poll has any significance (also you should watch the videos not only take a look at the logo). You shouldn’t ask everybody because this is a reduction to “taste”, and it’s not about taste. Aren’t you lucky that there’s no crown or a big ben metaphor in the logo?
And at the end it’s better to get extreme reactions than no reaction although the “extremly brilliant” reaction is still missing.
