Beautiful detail in this concept and design for the 76 Synthesizer iPad app by Jonas Eriksson.
Illustrator and typographer Jessica Hische is in Auckland to speak at Semi-Permanent. She talked to 95bFM’s Charlotte Ryan about how and why she practises her craft.
Sebastiaan de With’s beautiful UI design for the doubleTwist app, running on Android. De With says he “sure as hell wasn’t going to use an entirely new platform … just to ape another”, however there’s surely a small debt of gratitude due here, particularly in the player interface itself, to Apple’s recent work on the QuickTime player. Regardless, I dig it.
The Rest — “Modern Time Travel (Necessities)”
I’m seriously liking The Rest at the moment. They’ve got a 4 track EP The Cried Wolf available for free which includes an awesome cover of Robyn’s With Every Heartbeat.
“Intro” by The XX, who play Auckland’s Laneway Festival on 1 February 2010. (via Jarred Bishop)
Typeface designer Jonathan Hoefler and co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author programme at the School of Visual Arts, Steven Heller, talk to “Please Explain“‘s Leonard Lopate on the topic of how typefaces are created and why typography is important to communication and design. (via Yves Peters)
SongParts
A new venture from You Look Nice Today: buy just the best parts of songs for a fraction of the US$0.99 pricetag. Gold. And taking submissions now. (via Adam Lisagor)
Ben Burtt talks about creating the sounds for the lightsabers in Star Wars. Sound design is a fascinating field, and sounds can come from some pretty random places. I always remember in War Of The Worlds how they made the sound of the martian space craft opening by twisting lid off a mayonnaise jar inside a toilet bowl.
Johnny Depp and Paul Giamatti in Donnie Brasco (1997).
