Art & Design stories

Will Jonathan Ive's new job mean the end of Apple's faux leather?

Adario Strange
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 8:07am
 
Monday, Apple experienced its biggest corporate shakeup since the late Steve Jobs first handed the reigns over to Tim Cook. Most notably, Scott Forstall, the man some blame for the Maps debacle, is out. But another appointment, Jonathan Ive as the new director of Human Interface, could mean the end of Apple's addiction to skeuomorphic software interfaces.

Gross Gallery: Artist draws gadgets with human guts

Kevin Hall
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 11:58am
 
If artist Mads Peitersen ran the world, I wouldn't be telling you about the iPad Mini, but instead the new bioPhone 5, with a dual-valve processor and twice the intestinal track length of previous generations. Also, Apple now covers cracked bioPhone ribs under Apple Care. It's a bold new world!

16 ways cartoonist Winsor McCay quietly changed the world

Colin Druce-McFadden
Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 6:55am
 
A few days ago Google made a big online splash with one of its most elaborate doodles to date. For those who didn't see it, the doodle honored a man named Winsor McCay. Entitled Little Nemo in Google-land, the doodle was drawn in the style of McCay's most famous comic Little Nemo in Slumberland. It was also released on the 107th anniversary of Little Nemo's debut.

Spectacular 3D astrophotos add depth to space

Evan Ackerman
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - 8:56am
 
Space. It's big, and it's deep, but as far as we humans here on Earth are concerned, it may as well be a perfectly flat picture painted up there across the sky. It's hard to get much in the way of depth through a telescope, but with a little bit of creativity and artistic license, it's possible to 3D-ify some truly beautiful nebulae.

Lenovo celebrates 20 years of ThinkPad

Nathaniel Wattenmaker
Friday, October 5, 2012 - 2:52pm
 
It began with IBM, it continues with Lenovo. Today marks the 20th anniversary of the venerable ThinkPad lineup of computers. Lenovo is celebrating with a mish-mash of nostalgic press releases, including some material from the ThinkPad's induction to the MoMA earlier this year.

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