Letterpress by Naomie Ross, music by Mark Mothersbaugh.
“FM2 with Loray:n”. (via Audrey Hepburn Complex)
Jason Schwartzman demos the hell out of the New Yorker iPad app, in a promo directed by Roman Coppola. Yeah, he did that at the end didn’t he…
Longboarding through Madrid captured on a Canon 5D2.
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.
Carl Zeiss introduces the Compact Prime CP.2 series of cinema lenses for DSLR cameras, featuring interchangeable mounts, longer focus rotation and a 14-blade iris that stays round over the entire focal range. Available from June.
Intricate, beautiful visuals by Carlos Lascano accompany this music video for Gabi. Entirely shot with a Canon 7D.
Apple has made some puzzling decisions over the last few years that leave one wondering if they really care about typography as much as they did in the 1980s when the Mac launched the desktop publishing revolution.
— From Stephen Coles’ detailed analysis of the iPad’s typographic failings, in which he provides a short history of Apple’s achievements in the field, and a list of eight areas in need of improvement (from justification and hyphenation woes to the absence of support for embeddable typefaces and @font-face). A key observation: where Helvetica was a smart UI choice on the iPhone with its high PPI count, Stephen finds it “muddy” and borderline illegible at smaller sizes on the iPad’s much lower-resolution display.
This photo by Alex Alexander has a timeless quality about it that I really like. It could have been taken 40 years ago, or just yesterday.
