Tag Archives: iPad

November 12, 2011

The Script of Screen | Macintosh and the iPad

The Script of Screen | Macintosh logos, the Finger Stroke and the iDesign Environments iPad, iPhone, Air or Paper: drawing words like music Calligraphy, Steve Jobs and the Macintosh

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August 18, 2011

Hand Touch | Digital Touch

Thinking Craft, Materials Cutting and Computation I’ve been working on a series of journals. Recently, I’d been drawing from a iPad — and learning to craft formats and visuals that cross from photographic gatherings — and scribed, live, handwritten text. … Continue reading

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July 21, 2011

Fast Casual Food Experience Design: The Place of Technology and Touch How Designed Does It Need To Be?

The context of designing places that are human, places that are not. In the principles of fast casual food / beverage design, a mid-priced, faster service experience proposition, the notion of the holistic character of guest presence has to do … Continue reading

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June 28, 2010

iPad | Kids, Brand Expressions and Archetypes: exploring Apple’s design language and human interface merchandising

I can remember when my daughter Madeleine, during the 1980′s, first encountered our first Macintosh computer. Just like that — the above. Interface, holistically, can be enrapturing. It’s becoming hard not to write about Apple. The love of the brand … Continue reading

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June 7, 2010

The Concept of Attention | Devices, Utility and Attentiveness

Technology, attunement to content, the iPad and new modeling of computing place. I started writing this missive a couple of weeks back, and it would appear to becoming a reference of increasing topicality. Even today, a detailed overview of the … Continue reading

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April 30, 2010

iPad, Flash and Steve Jobs

Apple and Flash: Strategic notations Some notes from the man. As a persistent and tireless defender of  all things Apple, and the early Girvin working collaborations and design connections with Mr. Jobs — Reed College and Lloyd Reynolds, the later … Continue reading

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April 3, 2010

iPad + yourPad: Today’s the day

Brand marketing need, not want. Guy Kawasaki, one of the great evangelists of Apple, along with millions of other MacAddicts and Steve Jobs & Co., emotional shareholders has a question that’s pretty interesting: “The first five million will be sold … Continue reading

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March 21, 2010

The brand called i

Apple and the i: iPad and the brand concept of prefix brand nomenclature conceptions What’s behind the i? As an Apple evangelist — a missionary, perhaps — (a student) for me it’s been about the exploration of brand legacy. I … Continue reading

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February 1, 2010

The sense of the book: iPad / eBook interface

The sentience of reading experience: Kindle vs. iPad, an exploration of dimensionality. This from GadgetLab: “But some die-hard e-reader fans like Len Edgerly, who hosts the weekly Kindle Chronicles podcast, say pretty e-books aren’t as big a draw as some … Continue reading

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January 27, 2010

Steven P. Jobs, the iPad Apple Tablet, and the Drawn Story

Firescript: the hand, the drawing, the gesture and a legacy. I’ve got history on the concept of the tablet. Friends of mine, running hardware design at Microsoft – I told them – what about the idea of showing the art … Continue reading

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