Grant Snider’s “The Book of the Future” for the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Where do you stand in the Kindle v. iPad v. Nook v. old fashioned books debate?
- Maggie
On the market since November, iPad app Mixel asks that you please do touch the art. In fact, it’s this precise ideology that separates Mixel from the rest of the collage app crowd, as every finished Mixel creation is available publicly, free to be remixed, rematched, and shared all over again.
Pinterest hosts several boards for Mixel user bragging rights and features a fun “Where I Live” Challenge - looks like there’s plenty of room for some Buffalo mashup Mixel art.
- Maggie
Our good friend Alix Martin showed me this video the other day and I can’t stop thinking about how far the design of iPad apps have come in such a short period of time. I can only imagine what the iPad will look like when my daughter is my age and what its capabilities will be.
-Steve
Ben and I have recently been comparing our favorite iPhone wallpapers and found Poolga is a go-to site for both of us. Founded by a small group of artists, Poolga was born in 2007 as a platform for sharing art as Apple product wallpapers. Focusing on illustration, graphic design, and typography, it features beautiful and often inspiringly offbeat work. Here are a few of my favorites, above.
And if you find yourself getting lonely at work, spend your afternoon with the strapping Master and Commando. Or perhaps the soothingly stern Head of the Answering Service is more your style, though I wouldn’t recommend talking to her during work hours - she’s very serious.
- Maggie
I was just at JFK’s international Delta terminal and there are iPads galore! You can order food, check email, download apps, read, whatever. They’re free to use and don’t have any restrictions. The only problem is you’ll probably have to beat up an old lady to get a seat in front of one. A seat with an iPad is prime real estate at JFK. Yikes!
-Patrick
LetterMpress is a new iPad app that electronically simulates the craft of letterpress. It’s probably buckets of fun, but I’m wondering if e-letterpress is to real letterpress what Adobe Illustrator is to real illustrator.
Is artistry and craft defined by the ability to manipulate with physical tools, or the ability to create with intellectual creativity? What do you think?
By the way, you can see an example of real press work on the cover of the current Block Club Magazine. Issue 25 (2011 Food & Drink) is out on stands and online now. Shelly at French Press designed and produced the artwork for this beautiful cover.
-Ben
Does life ever feel this way? Is it bad? I dunno. But I do love my Apples. -Ben
If only I were a gentleman, with an iPad - Then I could read this gorgeous interactive ‘gentleman’s magazine’, Grain & Gram!
- Courtney
