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Handcrafted Functional Art!!

Sven Quandt — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:11:10 +0000

Grove is a design collective based in Portland, that is dedicated to creating products that bring art into your everyday life. Their first product is a bamboo iPhone case engraved with designs from their artist series or a custom design of your choosing. Clever packaging is made from bamboo left over from the carving process and is intended to be used as a picture frame after un-boxing.

This is “Wild Things” iPhone case engraved with designs made by the italian artist “Flavio Melchiorre“.

Buy now on Grove: Handcrafted Functional Art!!

Color Studio on the Go

Sven Quandt — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:11:32 +0000

Who says you can’t take it with you? Not Pantone. Now with the myPANTONE for iPhone and iPod Touch app you have access to a variety of PANTONE® color libraries and the ability to build color palettes and share them with colleagues and clients. myPANTONE offers graphic, web, fashion and apparel designers a way to take PANTONE colors with you wherever you go. Can’t remember what a color looks like, now you can have Portable Color Memory™.

Get your color inspiration and create your color scheme from these PANTONE color system libraries.
You can capture and extract colors from photos and snap to the closest PANTONE Color.
Automatically generates harmonious color combinations.
Cross-reference PANTONE colors to other PANTONE color libraries.
Once you have created your color palettes you can then share them in a variety of ways.

Showcase of Designs Optimized for iPhone

Sven Quandt — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:02:24 +0000

Over the last couple of years, mobile devices have managed to gain mainstream popularity. With iPhone, making mobile Web applications finally usable by broad masses, web design can now be applied to mobile applications as well. In this post we are focusing on designs that are specifically optimized for mobile devices, in particular iPhone.

Though iPhone’s Safari browser is able to render any website just like you would see it on a desktop browser, the available screen area is much smaller than in common “classic” displays. This poses a new challenge for designers and developers who now can reach millions of users that use mobile Web. Websites that are specifically optimized for the iPhone utilize the screen to the fullest extent, and use less bandwidth (which is necessary, because the connectivity is not always optimal).

The iPhone browsing experience is quite different than the regular browsing experience. The buttons and hyperlinks have to be bigger because our fingers are not as sharp as the mouse pointer. Optimizing a website for iPhone is not rocket science. It’s the same HTML, CSS and JavaScript that you already know. The only major difference is the screen size.