We’ve been hard at work on the new design for Beautiful Pixels and have made some great progress with it. We have also been working on a reworked backend for our Platter that gives us a much better control over the posts and styling. We’ll be slowly rolling out these changes in the coming weeks and are very excited to show them to our readers. We’re also relaunching our Artist Profile series on Beautiful Pixels, so keep an eye out for your favorite designer on here.
Edge Magazine: 20th Anniversary Issue
Edge Magazine recently published their 20th anniversary issue. It is available with 20 limited edition covers all representing their top 20 games of the last 20 years. The covers can be viewed here. The iPad magazine has some stunning animations from the get go. This is how magazines should be on the iPad. No one needs static PDFs anymore. Everything from the images to the crisp typography just makes you want to read more and more. You can sign up for a free trial of the magazine at many online stores here. It is worth it just for some of the amazing cover illustrations.
iOS 7 Design Cheat Sheet
We’ve featured quite a few design goodies in the last few platters for iOS 7. Now we’re at the home stretch and Apple will be releasing iOS 7 to the masses on Sep. 18th, just 3 days away. A lot of app developers have already begun releasing iOS 7 updates to their apps. Here’s a nice cheat sheet for all the dimensions among other tips for iOS 7 by Ivo Mynttinen.
Google Drive Update
Google usualy does great updates for their iOS apps. This week they had a major issue with their Authenticator app and the update made matters worse for some people. The good news though comes in the form of their latest Google Drive update that has their updated UI style and some lovely animations when you switch from grid view to cell view for your documents.
Back to School 2013 — The Verge Guide
The Verge has always had well designed pages for their features. They put a lot of effort into making each feature unique. The 2013 edition of their Back To School feature allows you to see what an engineer, a designer or an artist should buy as recommended by them. The layout for the items is done really well. You should visit their guide right now.
Writing On The iPad: Text Automation with Editorial
After his phenomenal review of Editorial for iPad, Editor-in-Chief of MacStories and our buddy, Federico Viticci launched this amazingly detailed book on the iBookstore that is an extended edition of his original article. The book offers a custom formatted layout that you can enjoy on the iPad with Retina screenshots, interactive graphics and videos. Viticci has also added 20 new workflows, 5 new videos and a whopping 10,000 additional words in this book. The book is currently on sale for $2.99 and we highly recommend it.
Teevee 2 Update
Teevee 2, the fantastic TV tracker app for iPhone that we wrote about back in July, received a major update this week that brought along a lovely new icon, a redesigned ‘iOS 7 style’ home screen UI and also added notable features like iCloud sync, unwatched episode management and some new typography. It’s a free update to existing users and the app is available on the App Store for just $0.99.