Linked List: May 7, 2013

Tuesday, 7 May 2013

‘iOS 7 Deforestation’ 

“Tell me something weird about the people in Erie.”

“Well, first of all, I think the whole place is made of cigarettes.”

Just a snippet from this week’s episode of The Talk Show, wherein I’m joined by special guest Marco Arment. Topics include: reports of iOS 7’s new system-wide appearance and where Apple might be heading stylistically; Microsoft’s scrapping of the “Hotmail” brand and their generally inscrutable branding as a company; Google and personal privacy, particularly as it relates to Google Glass and Google Now’s location tracking.

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‘It’s Too Steven Seagal, Not Steve McQueen Enough’ 

Inspiring video short from AIGA profiling H&FJ’s Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones.

Massimo Vignelli on Grid-Based Design 

Massimo Vignelli:

The grid is an integral part of book design. It’s not something that you see. It’s just like underwear: you wear it, but it’s not to be exposed. The grid is the underwear of the book.

Love that he draws each photo as he sketches the layout.

Party Monster 

Cool, clever, simple music queueing DJ app for iPhone and iPad. One of the best drag-to-reorder UIs I’ve seen. You know you want to check out an app with a “Refuse to Play Nickelback” preference setting. $2, cheap.

Grading Kindle Accessibility on iOS 

A good start, but not great.

Apple Cracks Top 10 of Fortune 500 for First Time 

Fortune ranks companies by revenue; if they ranked by profit Apple would have been in the top ten for years. Oh, and have you seen all the news stories about Apple’s stock price rebounding over 15 percent since its nadir last month? Me neither. Odd.