The Phantom Corsair is an automobile prototype from 1938. It is a six-passenger coupe that was designed by Rust Heinz, a member of the H. J. Heinz family, and Maurice Schwartz of the Pasadena, California based Bohman & Schwartz coachbuilding company. The design was a departure from contemporary car design and it did away with many features, common at the time, that were eventually abandoned by mainstream designers.
Stunning.
Lego wallpaper for your Mac or iOS device by Louie Mantia
Louie Mantia is one of my favourite icon and app designers out there.
Yesterday he released a blue LEGO-inspired wallpaper to match all those blue-ish icons floating on my iOS devices’s homescreens.
Go grab it, it’s great.
Episodes - for the TV nut you are
I’m a sucker for good UI design and I’ve become a TV series addict despite trying not to.
When I turned on Reeder this morning I found this gem of an iPhone app on Beautiful Pixels. This application allows me to easily track the show I like, it reminds me of schedule changes and provides information on the shows.
Don’t get me wrong, I can do the same with the excellent IMDb application, but this is much more comfortable and even more polished.
Dribbble Blog: Dribbble is ... Fan-tastic
Dribbble, a site I’ve been keeping an eye on for quite some time now, has introduced spectator accounts, which allow people who don’t want to post art, but admire it and give feedback.
Anybody who’s interested in interface design and digital art, should take a look.
This surprised me, but I distinctly remember loving this logo back when I was younger.
Although that might’ve been due to the promise of tasty sweets that hid behind this logo.
via Daring Fireball
iTunes user interface changes
As every year Apple changed the UI of iTunes upon release of the new major version.
While I wasn’t very fond of last years revision, I really like what they have done this time, even if some of it still needs some work:
Immediately after the first screenshot of iTunes 10’s window was shown during the demo, there was an outcry among users, that Apple arranged the ‘traffic lights’ (buttons for close, maximise, minimise) vertically.
Yes it’s unusual, and Apple ignores their own interface guidelines here, but I like it, because it saves some space; and should I ever get tired of it; there’s already a “fix” that brings back the old look.
The redesign of the capacity gauge for iDevices looks absolutely gorgeous in my opinion.
Apple’s choice to bring back the blue-ish graphite look for the application has me wondering, but it does make for a clean look.
The interface does still need some polish, though. The sync button is but one example of impurities in the UI.
What’s more important — and far more annoying — is the new way album art is being displayed. Having been touted as revolutionary and useful by Steve Jobs during the keynote, I will admit that I like the idea, but the execution is far from perfect:
No matter how big or small you set the cover image to be, if the album title is slightly too long, it’ll be cut off. The only way to remedy this, is to widen the column, sacrificing a lot a screen real estate for grey-ish space.
Placing the album title atop the album art would allow for a much more efficient use of space.
All things considered this update brings a few welcome features to iTunes, gives it a great new UI and some welcome performance improvements.
I don’t like the “everything but the kitchen sink” approach Apple has been taking with iTunes for years now, but this update makes the feature overload bearable and more usable for me.
My roommate just brought me an envelope containing the above items. The stickers are great and arrived here quickly (I only ordered them last week).
Mr. Lanham even put in an extra ‘Ollie’ Sticker.
Now I have the difficult task of finding the right spot on my MBP to put the sticker(s) on.
(If you don’t know who David Lanham is, take a look at his site.)
