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shapes and smartphones

Levi Freeman — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 10:47:04 +0000

I came across an interesting post over at interuserface which looks at the different shapes that have been owned and are synonymous with their respective platforms. What was also intriguing was how it laid out the shapes.

It seems that the shapes gradually morph into a square. Interuserface explains:

Microsoft’s Metro UI owns the square. Apple has a corner on the roundrect, from the Springboard launcher to the iPhone hardware itself. Nokia, despite its late entry with MeeGo’s Harmattan UI, found the squircle unclaimed and ran with it beautifully. Palm has used the circle from the early days of PalmOS, and in WebOS, HP continues the tradition with care (one might even note that both Palm and HP structure their wordmarks around the circle).

Read the post by interuserface.

Mobile Phone advertisements

Levi Freeman — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:30:59 +0000

Came across two beautiful advertisments online today. One of them is a slow, calming introduction for a DOCOMO mobile. The second is an advert for Windows phone aimed at the United Kingdom. An american version of the advert aired on televisions last month.

Windows Phone 7 – Surprise UK from Diego Contreras on Vimeo.

typographic map of london

Levi Freeman — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 01:39:40 +0000

I saw a beautiful piece of work today, it is that of a typographic map of greater london. This was created by Seagull. Take a look.

See the full peice here. on seagull ‘s website.