If you work in design at all, this book looks like something you need to check out.
Category: Design
Video: ‘Designed by Apple in California’ Book With Actual Products ⇢
Apple’s new coffee table book “Designed by Apple in California” features many products the company has produced over the last 20 years. Turns out, most of what it is in the book is a part of my collection. Here are the actual products alongside the book:
I’ve zipped up all the photos used in the video and have uploaded them here for your wallpaper-setting pleasure:
‘Designed by Apple in California’ Video ⇢
In connection with announcement, Jony Ive was interviewed by Japanese design website Casa Brutus. Ive describes the motivation behind the creation of Designed by Apple in California, but also has a lot to say about Apple’s design process.
‘Designed by Apple in California’ ⇢
Apple has announced a new product I did not see coming:
Apple today announced the release of a new hardbound book chronicling 20 years of Apple’s design, expressed through 450 photographs of past and current Apple products. “Designed by Apple in California,” which covers products from 1998’s iMac to 2015’s Apple Pencil, also documents the materials and techniques used by Apple’s design team over two decades of innovation.
I’m more into this stuff than almost anyone, and I find this odd. Even after last year’s “40 Years in 40 Seconds” video, something this retrospective feels weird.
"OS X" Branding Lingers On
With Apple changing Mac OS X to macOS this summer, it’s not surprising that some loose ends with the old branding are still easy to find. In comparison with actual issues, this is admittedly silly, but I’ve turned it into a little game.
System Folder
Terminal
Twitter Share Sheet
Dashboard Widget Index
CUPS
@ismh @512px Found another one. pic.twitter.com/oV99bw30Xa
— Bart Dorsey (@bartdorsey) October 7, 2016
Clang
@ismh @512px found another instance of “Mac OS X” appearing in macOS Sierra through warnings in Clang pic.twitter.com/Gcp0j9HpxV
1999’s Artwork and Guidelines for the Mac Logo
512 reader Marc Robinson mailed me me a bunch of Apple marketing materials from the late 90s and early 00s. There was a ton of good stuff in his package, but there was one that I thought I should share first: a CD containing artwork and guidelines on how to use the then-new Mac logo.
A lot of companies publish style guides on how their logos should and shouldn’t be used.1
In the late 90s, Apple made a push for developers to standardize how they showed the Mac logo.
Terrifying mission patches ⇢
Loren Grush, writing about National Reconnaissance Office’s mission patches for various rocket launches to put … secret things … into orbit:
Well it turns out that releasing creepy AF mission patches is a long-standing tradition for the NRO. It’s a far cry from the cheery NASA mission patches we’re used to. Instead, many of the NRO patches follow a specific formula: large scary animal grasps Earth.
Seriously, go look at these things. Yikes.
Apple TV aerial video screensavers ⇢
Benjamin Mayo:
The new Apple TV includes several choices of screensaver, including Aerial, an exclusive set of slow-moving HD video of various landmarks and places in the world. What’s most interesting is that the displayed video actually changes over time, as the Apple TV downloads new videos periodically from an online location.
He’s parsed the data coming from Apple, hijacking it to show on this page instead of an Apple TV. I love that someone at Apple has the job to source these things. Beautiful stuff.
Computer Show ⇢
Computer Show is a new series from Sandwich Video. Adam Lisagor showed the first episode at XOXO and it was amazing. You need to go watch these.
A look at The Martian’s graphics ⇢
One thing I love about this film is the attention to detail, and how the art feels futuristic, but not fantastical. These graphics are definitely a huge part of the look and feel of The Martian.
Apple now selling Watch lugs to MFi members ⇢
I really love the two Sport bands I have, but would love some nice NATO band options as well. As all of these lugs are being made in stainless steel, I’m set, but if you own an Apple Watch Sport, it’s something to be aware of if mis-matched lugs hurt your head as they do mine.
Panic opens a Pippin
Remember the Pippin, Apple’s ill-fated gaming console from the mid 1990s? It looks like the crew over at Panic Software have gotten their hands on one:
One new SCSI CD-ROM drive later, our Apple Pippin Devkit is working! The future of gaming had MacOS 7 buttons! ???? pic.twitter.com/1cvmmUaDAJ
— Panic Inc (@panic) September 30, 2015
Don’t miss the “Usage Guidelines for the Pippin Logo and CD-ROM Packaging” document Cabel Sasser posted, either.