Recently-laid robin’s eggs in the garden of a house in Prince Frederick, Maryland by Washington Post photographer Linda Davidson.
No good at design, eh?
EH?
Philip Joyce of Dublin-based digital agency Simply Zesty and his acclaimed fantasy version of how Apple design chief Jonathan Ive’s new iOS 7 phone may look.
He got rid of the skeumorphism for a start.
Philip explains:
Skeumorphism is probably the most misused and overused word in tech over the past year or so. Everyone has said how Apple needs to rid their software of its visual metaphors, e.g, faux leather stitching in the iPad’s calendar and the ripped paper effect in the Notes app.
While skeumorphism is actually not always a bad thing, one thing is certain – Apples prized iPhone software is beginning to look a little stale.
I began with the iPhone’s famous app icons and stripped them of their gloss and sheen. They’re now reduced to simple flat colours and icons. While it’s now easy to think of Apple’s aesthetic as clean, bold and white, we forget how much they have integrated colour into their products and advertising.
Having this in mind, I tried to make the app icons a bit more fun and colourful.
Then there’s the apps themselves, like Music and Calendar – I kept the same idea, strip out the chrome, keep the content and visuals front and centre – hiding whats not necessary until you need it (for example, the extra options slider in the Music app)
While adding this new look and functionality to the OS, it still had to be iOS, which is simple, easy to use and familiar to regular iPhone users, not just the tech savvy users.
Fair play though, in fairness.
Niamh writes:
Found this on a Northbound DART in Pearse street station. It’s waiting for its owner with the staff at Connolly [station]. Anyone?
Kieran Mulvey of the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) being interviewed near a G4S van earlier as Croke Park 2 talks continue.
Via: Philip Boucher-Hayes
Via: independent.ie and Rory Noonan
ALERT! Job offer of lifetime. Any Pogues/Shane Mac fans who are great dentists please tweet @victoriamary to work on the great man himself!
— The Pogues (@poguesofficial) May 11, 2013
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Thanks Lara
Tonight’s Prime Time will focus on the ongoing campaign for 18 Bethany Home survivors to be included in the Residential Institutions Redress Scheme.
Bethany Home, which opened in Blackhall Place, Dublin in 1921, before it moved to Orwell Road in in Rathgar, Dublin 6, in 1934, was a Protestant-run ‘mother and child’ home, excluded from the redress scheme for victims of institutionalised abuse. It closed in 1972.
More than 219 children from Bethany Home were buried in unmarked graves, between 1922 to 1949, at Mount Jerome Cemetery in nearby Harold’s Cross.
The National Women’s Council of Ireland writes:
“An alliance of 49 NGOs, trade Unions and academics have called on the Taoiseach to address the unfair position that Bethany Home survivors have to date been excluded from both the Residential Institutions Redress Scheme and the Magdalene Redress Scheme (despite initial indications, that the Bethany Home may be considered for inclusion in the latter scheme). This exclusion leaves them in a state of vulnerability, uncertainty and in many cases poverty.”
“The Alliance has called on the Taoiseach, as a matter of urgency, to ensure that justice is served to the survivors of the Bethany home and that the state affords them the peace and security that they deserve in these, their older years. They call on him to provide them with a process of non-adversarial redress and to provide assistance to the Bethany Survivors in their attempts to access their records.”
Call for justice for the Bethany Home Survivors to be served (National Women’s Council of Ireland)
Previously: Justice For The Survivors Of Bethany House