TILT Blog

What is it with Apple and Flash?

TILT — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:32:09 +0000

Apple and Adobe go back along way, but recently, things haven’t been going great. Apple refuses to put flash on their iPhones which has sparked quite a debate. Asking a friend of ours their opinion on why they didn’t want to include it anymore, they went ahead and re-burped all the points in Apple’s corporate response to the issue, which you can read here.

A lot of people tend to think this is Apple hiding behind the fact that, should they give users the ability to use flash on their iPhones, they wouldn’t purchase as many games through Apple’s App Store, resulting in damaging Apple’s revenue.

Also, if flash is so buggy and processor intensive, how come HTC/Android has now announced flash on their platform.

Here at TILT we are all ones for the next step of HTML5 and CSS3, but full integration of these standards is a long way off, especially with a good percentage of web users with older browsers such as IE6. With such amazing flash sites out their today, it would be a shame to lose this creativity that i’m not so sure you could reproduce with HTML5 and CSS3+JS.

Here are some interesting demos from Apple using HTML5 and CSS3.

And here are some amazing flash websites.

What do you think?

The New John Lewis Advert

TILT — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:43:59 +0000

We love this great new video from John Lewis. Depressing yet beautiful, this ad sees a woman grow from a child to an old lady in the space of an advert, nice work.

Brand Identity Now!

TILT — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:37:33 +0000

Check out this new book from TASCHEN

With in-depth case studies of leading projects from around the world, Brand Identity Now! is destined to be a major work of reference for designers, marketing professionals and anyone working in communications. The book examines logos, imagery, and strategic applications involved in each branded project. Featuring over 150 outstanding brand identities from more than 20 countries, including the Obama ‘08 Election Campaign, The Museum of Art and Design, the Digital Water Pavilion at Expoagua Zaragoza 2008 and New York’s bid for the Olympic Games 2012.

Top design offices featured include:
Attik, Pentagram, 3deluxe, Landor Associates, MetaDesign, Sol Sender (designer of the Obama logo), RDYA Argentina, studio FM milano, Story Worldwide, SVi Design, Tatil Design, Pozo Marcic Ensamble, and Apfel Zet.

Grab yourself a copy

New TILT websites launched

TILT — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:48:56 +0000

This month has seen the launch of quite a few new sites by TILT. Firstly is Myles Veritas, a new company, which required branding, stationery and website.

You can see the site here:

www.mylesveritas.com

Also a new site for property specialists, Tate Residential has been created. The site included a content management system which allowed the site administrators to have complete control over their properties to buy and let.

www.tateresidential.co.uk

We have also launched Simply Learning Tuition, a private tuition company based in London.

Private Tuition London

Along with a promotional website for The Polo Kid A film about Polo

BumpTop 3D Desktop Environment Acquired by Google

TILT — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:14:59 +0000

BumpTop is physics-based 3D desktop environment which allows users new features for organising their desktops. BumpTop offers users multiple surfaces on which to store files, allowing users to alter the sizes of individual items and take advantage of several organisational features such as piles. BumpTop also supports Multi-Touch gestures in Windows 7 to manipulate files. See this video showing off its features:

Wood Dunny! Got wood?

TILT — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:48:31 +0000

Check out this new Dunny from KidRobot! Genius… now how hard will it be to get hold of one?

Konami Code

TILT — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:53:16 +0000

Remember those cool Konami games… where they always had the same cheat codes…? Well now you can enter the codes on popular websites for a nice little surprise. Websites jumping on board are sites like FaceBook, Digg, Mint and Gamespot. Not to mention our own site TILT Media.

For those of you unfamiliar with the code, simply press the following on your keyboard..

UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A (and then enter to initialise)

For a nice list of KonamiCode sites visit http://konamicodesites.com

Warp Records New Website

TILT — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:34:38 +0000

Having been a fan of the designers republic classic chiseled edged look that has been prominent in a lot of their work, online and offline, TILT were looking forward to seeing what changes would be born on the new warp site, from both a functional and design persepective.

By the look of the credits on the site, warp have chosen to take design direction from the geniuses over at universaleverything whilst leaving the build to Remote Location

Anyways go check it out over at warp.net and let us know what you think.

Social Networking on the Move

TILT — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:37:20 +0000

These days, marketing a product or website can now reach peoples phones and iPhones through social networking applications.

Through the introduction of applications such as Facebook, Twitteriffic and Wordpress for the iPhone, social networks are now accessing content on the move - being exposed to word of mouth marketing.

Even reading this article, you probably wasn’t aware that it was created on an iPhone, whilst waiting for a bus!

Find our more about Social Marketing

Kidrobot announce Endangered Dunny Series

TILT — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:44:42 +0000

At TILT we love a bit of urban vinyl to brighten our desks. Check out these new Dunny’s from Kidrobot.

Endangered Dunny Series

Animal instincts are sharper than ever in the limited edition hyper series, Dunny Endangered! Featuring 15 designs (and 2 chases) by 13 incredible artists, this ultra-fierce series will disappear soon…

Contributing artists include Amanda Visell, Aya Kakeda, Elizabeth Berdann, Chuckboy, Frank Kozik, Jeremyville, Joe Ledbetter, Kronk, Michelle Valigura, Mr. Shane Jessup, Sket One, Tad Carpenter, Triclops Studio and Touma.