You Can't Miss: A Rant Against Apple and Typography

This week's only post from Made by Many was a rant against Apple. Paul Sims started out by doing a search on Instragram and Apple to discover people's thoughts on an Apple buy-out of the company. It goes on to discuss the secrecy behind Apple, they're total control over anything that goes out over their services and the company's failure at anything social. He goes on to point out that Instagram is actually marketing Apple products because people want iPhones for the app. He has an interesting take on the separation of products for Apple and Android.


And as some brain candy for our last week of class, I'm sharing a blog, youlookliketherighttype, that publishes an overheard phrase in custom typography pretty much everyday. Add it to your reading list; it's so worth it.

Critique: Final cover design

I had the idea for the cover last week, with the red background and funky type, I promise. I realize that it bears a resemblance to the New York Time's Magazine cover out now. Of course, if the NYT is doing it, maybe that means it's pretty cool and striking.

I'm also working on a second cover with the blueprint feel, but it's not as strong as this one, and personally, I think the typography is pretty cool.

Response: The semester

I can honestly say that this is one of the hardest semesters I've encountered in college, which is probably the way it's supposed to be, considering the grad school thing. But I think I've also learned a lot, and certainly worked on more things with so many different styles.

Designing for Vox was an interesting experience which was valuable in its own way for helping us get experience of designing for a magazine. The prototypes were a lot of fun, and I know that Cupboard came so, so far from the beginning. I think that was probably the best part of the semester, seeing how revisions can make something great, as well as how important it is to have the pieces before you start designing.

I also really appreciated the emphasis on our portfolio, mini-portfolio and websites. I think that will help us as we go out into the real world, and even for those of us who aren't going there quite yet, it's a good start for when we do.