The power of Apple iBooks
Imagine a classroom where all the books are located on the one device and reading them is a total interactive experience. We have come so far with technology in the last 10 years. Feeling a little old, I remember back to the days when I had to cart text books around, reading and then writing [...]
Kid’s know best
An inspiring TED talk from 6th grader Thomas Suarez.
Brio Group’s Christmas Gift Guide
Do you leave your Christmas shopping til the very last moment? Never sure what to get the creative in your family? Never fear, Brio Group have put together our very own creative Christmas gift guide to lead you in the right direction. Belinda Vesey-Brown, Managing Director Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography Audiobook,$22.79USD Make sure it [...]
Kindle Fire vs. iPad – Who will win?
Wow! It now really looks like the tablet wars are spicing up which is really exciting. Amazon will let loose the Kindle Fire their answer to the Apple iPad, in November this year. Now what could be better on the Kindle Fire than on the iPad I hear you asking? Well… From what I can [...]
Typographers Dream
“Designers, type enthusiasts and people who love to explore the world of typography, better take a seat before hearing – FontBook, the most complete reference guide of typography in the world, is now available as an App for iPad!” – Halex Pereira for MacMagazine Brazil (translated from Portuguese) As if I didn’t need yet another [...]
15 billion apps sold!
Apple has announced that they have surpassed 15 billion app downloads, handed out over $2.5 billion to developers and have sold more than 200 million iOS devices. This puts it on par with the Apple iTunes store who recently announced that they reached 15 billion downloads. Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing Philip Schiller said “In [...]
Handy apps to complete your “Rest of the Year” resolutions
Illustration: Courtesy of thisjourneyismyown.wordpress.com Who made a New Year’s resolutions list on the 1st January 2011 and totally forgot about most of them by the 4th January 2011? Well it’s not too late to put those great intentions back into practice. As Rodney Chester states in his Radar story in today’s Courier Mail, “Today is [...]
iCloud? What is it?
Apple have, in my opinion, created one of the best things for people on the go and even the everyday person: iCloud. iCloud stores your music, photos, calendars, documents and more! It then pushes all of them to all your devices, enabling you to view anything created on your iPhone, on your iPad the next [...]
Is your brand a fractal?
Influenced by Lee’s original blog about fractals, I started to think about how fractals can be used for brands. I came to the conclusion that fractals are a good paradigm / framework to model your brand. The definition of a fractal according to Hyperdictionary is: A rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be subdivided in [...]
ACP launch Magshop app
In the design industry we regularly hear that print is a dying media. Bad news for a magazine publisher right? … Maybe not! ACP Magazines have embraced the digital age and expanded their online magazine store with the launch of a digital newsstand app for the iPad. This app allows you to browse their titles [...]