Ludwig Wendzich

iPad Application Design: back to reality.

I thought the success of the computer was because it was abstracting reality which enabled it to speed up workflow. Apparently the future is skinning that abstraction so it simulates reality.

My grandmother will understand it much easier I agree.

I think we need to change our expectations of a book. We now publish experiences (or apps, if you will) instead of books. Why have a textbook when you can have an app provides the same information through a better experience?

What happens with novels though? And other text-reliant experiences where the value is in the form just as much as the content.

Distribution of colours of the flags of world (individual country pie charts through the link.)

Of the books we do print — the books we make — they need rigor. They need to be books where the object is embraced as a canvas by designer, publisher and writer. This is the only way these books as physical objects will carry any meaning moving forward.

A friend playing with cassette tape to create letters. I like.

Blame it on the boogie! My friend Helvetica.

Just awesome!

This is awesome, love the juxtaposition between the literal and the visual messages! </prick>