FontBook iPad app
FontBook, the world’s most comprehensive typographical reference guide, is now available on iPad.
Browsing fonts is always a bit of a nightmare, do you browse by foundry, style, keyword…? When I’m searching for a font I normally end up with hundreds of tabs open and I start to loose track of why I’ve gone done certain paths. So I love the way you navigate through the different foundries and faces in this app. Zooming in and out from across different grids representing different levels of categorisation. It keeps everything linear but allows for tangental discovery.
I also love the compare feature which lets you stack different fonts up against each other, customise the sample by changing copy and colour and then share it to your social networks to get your peers’ feedback.
I can see this being expanded with extra browsing methods like font family trees, timelines etc to make font discovery educational.
All in thumbs up and thanks for the find goes to nickmulley
Plic, Ploc, Wiz
I’ve seen apps and sites with this ‘sticker’ based art concept before but I really love the illustration and art-direction in this one. Cute, fun and easy for kids to assemble into whatever creatures they can conjure up.
The share by email feature is nice but I can’t help but think this would be better as an instagram style feed that family and friends can browse.
Would also be sweet if they released packs of new ‘stickers’ that keep the app fresh and exciting for kids (and adults) to play with.
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is an iPad book experience with the emphasise on experience. It has been created by ex-Pixar animator William Joyce and it is fully interactive with every page having its own unique interactions and animations and games.
This really makes me jealous of kids today, what a fantastic learning experience for parents to share with their children.
Cute little type app that helps you choose font’s by manipulating parameters with swipes and touches. Tools like this are always good when you find yourself at a loss as to what to choose for a project.
Great retro styling on this iPad app. Pennant lets you browse the history of baseball from 1952 to 2010 using a really stylish interface.
Love all the elements. The timeline is simple. The map looks great. Maybe the cover-flow cards could do a bit more to differentiate each statistic but its a great app overall. Very consistent.
They just won an award in 2011 Apple Design Awards. Good work guys.
OmmWriter is a simple text processor that firmly believes in making writing a pleasure once again, vindicating the close relationship between writer and paper. The more intimate the relation, the smoother the flow of inspiration.
I have had a go at the desktop version. It’s a very simple writing app which creates an ambient soundscape while you type. Very soothing and it really helps you concentrate. I have a copywriter friend who swears by it.
I don’t really like writing on touch devices as I miss the tactile feedback of a keyboard, so I’ll be interested to see what this is like to use. The keyboard design looks sumptuous.
I’m a big fan of instagram. I think its a great photo app and the social features are great. Saying that I’ve thought for a while now that viewing a maps of photos is a feature that should be included.
“With Instamap, users can browse through Instagram photos according to a location or a tag. No matter what part of the globe or what tag they choose, they can see the corresponding photos live, as they get posted.”
Really interesting way to interact with (read) Steven Fry’s book ‘Fry Chronicles’. This app breaks the book down by tags and then groups these around a central hub to let you navigate however it should so please you.
myfry availble on the iphone app store.
Using the iPad 2’s camera to track the users head movements a pseudo 3d effect is create. I’d love to implement this for a project.
