3 | Comic Book Heroes Get A Gorgeous Native American Makeover We all know Batman when we see him, but he always looks a little different, depending on the artist. Whereas in the hands of Dick Sprang, Batman is a barrel-chested 1920s strong man, in the hands of Frank Miller, Batman is an ever-evolving shadow of sinew--a monster darker than the night itself. Even still, we’d never seen Batman imagined as a Native American warrior before Jeffrey Veregge, an artist and member of the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe (located just outside of Seattle), depicted him alongside Superman, Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Flash through traditional Coast Salish design. Coast Salish is an art form unique to the Pacific Northwest, known for depicting the earth, sky, and its animals in distinctive, swooshing silhouettes. “I want people get a chance to relate to an art form that has been used primarily to tell the tales of my people and heritage,” Veregge tells Co.Design. Now most of you will recognize Veregge’s superheroes, but what of their intricate lines? Learn more here.
wsdot : Although #ios6 may say... Gifwich Apple on Its iOS 6 Maps: Things Can Only Get Better Apple’s Maps app for iOS 6. Maybe Apple should have slapped beta — the label it reserves for unpolished technologies like Siri — on its new maps application. After the maps in its new iOS 6 mobile operating system were greeted with widespread criticism after its release on Wednesday, the company issued a statement Thursday saying that it is working hard to improve the technology. “We launched this new map service knowing that it is a major initiative and we are just getting started with it,” said Trudy Muller, an Apple spokeswoman. The response to Apple’s mapping service has been unusually harsh for a company that typically puts far more care into delivering polished products. Siri, its voice-activated virtual assistant, has been criticized since it came out last year for both outages and its frequent misunderstandings of user commands. Some of the criticisms were tongue-in-cheek.
The Same Picture of Dave Coulier Every Day Apr 12 Apr 11 Apr 10 Apr 9 Apr 8 Apr 7 Apr 6 Apr 5 Apr 4 Apr 3 ← Older posts Page 1 of 88 Google Working on Maps for iPhone, iPad theamazingios6maps.tumblr.comA melting map of Las Vegas. FacebookTwitterGoogle+SaveEmailSharePrint People pining for a Google Maps app on their Apple devices will get one eventually, but likely not for another couple months or so. Google is developing a maps application for iPhone and iPad that it is seeking to finish by the end of the year, according to people involved with the effort who declined to be named because of the nature of their work. One reason that it will take Google some time to build the iPhone app: it expected the app with Google’s maps to remain on the iPhone for some time, based on the contract between the two companies, and was caught off guard when Apple decided to build a new application to replace the old one. Apple’s service has been widely ridiculed for inaccuracies in addresses, mislabeled landmarks and other mistakes. But Google does intend to build a Google Maps app for iOS, according to people who have been involved in an effort to create the app.
Google says Maps not waiting in wings for iPhone 5 Source: Apple Aggressively Recruiting Ex-Google Maps Staff To Build Out iOS Maps Apple is going after people with experience working on Google Maps to develop its own product, according to a source with connections on both teams. Using recruiters, Apple is pursuing a strategy of luring away Google Maps employees who helped develop the search giant’s product on contract, and many of those individuals seem eager to accept due in part to the opportunity Apple represents to build new product, instead of just doing “tedious updates” on a largely complete platform. My source — a contractor who worked on Google Maps as part of a massive undertaking to integrate Street View and newly licensed third-party data to improve European coverage, as well as develop the platform’s turn-by-turn navigation — says that when attention turned to indoor mapping, things started to become less interesting and a lot of staff began looking around for other opportunities. That turned out to be good timing for Cupertino. Here’s what my source describes happening around that time:
A letter from Tim Cook on Maps