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Flatomorphic Design
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Seeing Jony's taste in clothes, iOS 7 makes more sense now.
Those shades kinda look weird with that attire. Lol!
Good point. I appreciate your input although sarcastic... how would you define what makes Apple's new look distinct?
Flat, pastel, no drop shadows, no realistic textures, sparse?
I put up the Rio cover late last night as I was falling asleep and thought that it really didn't qualify - hey I was tired...
There isn't really anything in particular to define or really explain it. Just a bunch of stuff Apple's marketing department figured was "cool" in one way or another and then tweaked by some developers and product people here and there as it was actually being added to the OS when it was being coded. It is what it is, but there doesn't necessarily have to be some sort of over-reaching definition of it, despite what people might think or what Apple even tries to make it sound like (considering they can't even be consistent about it themselves, even in obvious places).
You've hit on the problem with trying to categorize design. Just look at music genres, there are tens of thousands of them and bands come out every year that bring with them yet another new genre. You can make broad, sweeping generalizations, but IMO, its more like what Justice Stewart said, "I know it when I see it." In this case, when I see an Apple design, I do not need to see a logo, I know it from the design. I can't describe the exact lines that elicit the response, but the sum of hundreds of design cues come together to be distinctly Apple.
Seeing Jony's taste in clothes, iOS 7 makes more sense now.
This image is better than words...
It has bad taste written all over it.
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No it doesn't, a slick, fitted light blue linen suit with a nice vacation beard topped with retro style shades. He looks cool.
Only thing i would change is to tuck in the shirt. (no belt). Hopefully hes sporting white suede loafers without socks.
The little weird green thing attached to the jacket I assume is connected to whatever event hes attending and not a part of the outfit.
Flatomorphic: apple dictionary didn't find it, google and neither does wikipedia.
So I'm going to go ahead and say it's not a design style nor anything.
Minimalism
Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts. Minimalism is any design or style in which the simplest and fewest elements are used to create the maximum effect.
That's not flatomorphic, see all the shades? I have a better name for the new design but there are children in these here boards.
That's not flatomorphic, see all the shades? I have a better name for the new design but there are children in these here boards.
LOL!
That's why I like Flatomorphic.
I don't really think we are dealing with minimalism:
IOS7 is definitely
FLATOMORPHIC
With the use of colour and curve I would have thought more Arts and crafts , Art Deco or Art Nouveau but certainly it takes a lot of influence from the early modernist era of which was influenced by western artists and designers of that era traveling and studying in Japan and eastern culture.
Stop using a word that doesn't exist thinking it will stick, it won't.
Anyways, it would be: "simple" not minimalism anyways.
http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/design/
Simpliciomorphic!!
No really, stop it with the flatomorphic or whatevermorphic, is not going to catch up.
