My mission is to bring humour into fine art.

—Wayne White

Yesterday I posted a nitpick from iOS 6, so here’s something I like.

Now when you update apps in the App Store, iOS no longer yanks you out of the app to the Home screen. The App Store also no longer requires iTunes password authentication for free apps, just the paid ones.

Two minor updates adding up to a lot when you apply them across the dozens of apps on my iPhone (and iPad).

(via Marcel Brown)

It’s been a few weeks since I upgraded my iPhone 4 from iOS 5 to iOS 6.

Overall, things are good. There’s been some welcome improvements, some steps backward and little nitpicks here and there. I’ll start with one of the nitpicks.

In the music application, Apple has updated the styling on the track duration scrubber and the volume slider. Both elements share the same visual style, as they did in iOS 5, but for some reason it bothers me this time around. Now, the both read as differently scaled volume sliders to my eyes.

Perhaps this is because both of them are larger and have a more pronounced, brushed-aluminum style (I really hope Apple eases off the skeuomorphs in future OS versions).

I wonder if something like this doesn’t make more sense:

While both controls slide, they perform different functions and thus should have different visual stylings.

I think most people find Google easier than going to the direct website.

—comment from a client

via Instagram

A Science Lesson For Whoever Wrote the New iPhone 5 Ad

via Museo del Prado via Open Culture

There was a time I can remember when the common term for mapping a route on the computer was to “MapQuest it.”

I’m talking about the mid 1990’s until a few years after Google Maps came out in 2005. At some point after Google Maps had been around the ‘switch’ happened, and everyone started to gradually migrate over from MapQuest. Google Maps started out as the Student, and had become the Master.

Now, here we are in September of 2012 and Apple has ditched Google Maps for it’s own solution. The problem is, for some people in some parts of the world, this “solution” isn’t a solution at all.

In response to the backlash to the new Maps application in iOS, Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, has issued an apology and has recommended we look to some third-party applications for help as they fix their maps. One of the services Cook recommends? MapQuest (via The Loop).

I find that so surreal.

Is that the Backstreet Boys I hear on the radio?

I’ve added new rewards to my Kickstarter project, Faster Horses. There’s now a third poster design set I’m calling ‘Asymmetric.’