on 14 September 2010
Apple has published, for the first time, the guidelines according to which it approves or rejects apps submitted to be made available to users of its iOS devices (the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch). continue
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on 2 September 2010
Apple’s annual iPod event was held at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, one of the company’s regular venues, and livecast to press gatherings in locations including London, where my fellow hacks reported a less than stampede-like turnout. read the full report
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Aimed at the back-to-school market, this supplement was sponsored by Dell to run in the summer editions of Dennis Publishing’s consumer tech magazines. continue
on 22 July 2010
MacFormat asked me for a pastiche of a Victorian advertising poster for a feature on essential Mac applications. continue
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on 21 July 2010
Xara Photo & Graphic Designer is the new name for Xara Xtreme, the drawing and image editing package. read my review at Expert Reviews
on 18 July 2010
Newspaper ad for August Bank Holiday event at The Feathers Inn. Another piece for Rhian and Helen’s excellent pub at Hedley on the Hill, Northumberland. Fonts are from Adobe’s Wood Type series plus various cuts of Caslon and Clarendon. Ornaments and swashes customised in InDesign.
on 7 July 2010
Apple has dubbed the iPhone 4’s new higher-resolution screen Retina Display. So what exactly does that mean, and are Steve Jobs’ claims of “smooth and continuous graphics” – in other words, no visible pixels – technically justified? continue
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on 21 June 2010
I designed ambient banners for a midsummer night event at the Feathers Inn, Hedley on the Hill. The 7×5ft (2.1×1.5m) piece seen here, manufactured by HFE Signs, featured a trompe l’oeil ormolu picture frame continue
on 7 June 2010
Today, Steve Jobs will announce the new iPhone. Despite sterling efforts, nobody has been able to reveal any substantial information about it, because Apple is highly secretive about new products. Yet the Telegraph’s Consumer Technology Editor, Matt Warman, managed to publish a piece before the weekend advising consumers of the 4G’s key weaknesses. How did he do it? continue
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on 7 May 2010
Shared Content is a feature that’s been available in QuarkXPress since version 6, but is often overlooked. continue reading excerpt
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