Beautiful detail in this concept and design for the 76 Synthesizer iPad app by Jonas Eriksson.
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…
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iPad wallpapers curated by Josh Holloway. (via Matt Downey)
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.
As an industry, we need to understand that not wanting root access doesn’t make you stupid. It simply means you do not want root access. Failing to comprehend this is not only a failure of empathy, but a failure of service.
— Mike Monteiro writing about Apple’s iPad. (via John Gruber)
