Enhanced Editions

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Peter Collingridge to speak at D&AD’s inaugural Sharp’ner event 25/05/10

Enhanced Editions’ The Death of Bunny Munro app was the first ever ebook submission for the D&AD design awards earlier this year, and it almost made it to the judging stage, but it wasn’t to be. To show there are no hard feelings, on Wednesday 26 May Enhanced Editions co-founder Peter Collingridge will be speaking at D&AD’s inaugural Sharp’ner event, which aims to bring publishers and designers together to “explore the future of books and book design alongside current and dream projects.” Peter will talk about the design decisions made during the early stages of development, the challenge of creating an invisible design, and the complex synergy that exists between design, user experience and reading. You can buy tickets from the D&AD online shop.

If you can’t make the Sharp’ner event, or you want to “try before you buy”, check out Peter’s keynote address from this year’s Tools of Change conference, and his “Fail Harder” pecha kucha from last year’s London Book Fair

Tools of Change: Enhancing the Ebook 28/02/10

Below is a video of Peter Collingridge’s Keynote speech from this year’s Tools of Change conference; beneath that is the full transcript, including slides.

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iPhone App Icon Design Strategy 26/08/09

We’re getting all the design assets for our lead apps together at a rate of knots, but one issue we have come up against, as design obsessives, is the icons for the individual apps.

As well as the issue of all  editions of the app needing to have the same icon (when the app is internationally available), we have the problem that the icon must be a tiny 57×57 pixels and meet  Apple’s design and interface guidelines. There are also limits on the number of characters we can use with the app on the desktop and in the store before the name is truncated. When you are working with long book titles – The Death of Bunny Munro or Dreams From My Father – you just can’t use them in full. (more…)