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Let your pictures do the talking. Simple and creative iPhone app eastyTitler from ubinow.

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1 / Take or load a picture

2 / Overlay text & apply effects freely

3 / Share your creations

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Fontagious app by Duncan A Campbell. Put your knowledge of everyday, famous fonts to the test with this addictive game for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

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Challenging your speed at recognising famous bands, movies, tv shows and brands – each font has a pair of clues to help you try and guess as many as you can in two minutes. Sounds easy? Don’t be fooled, its harder than you think.

C5 aka Column Five Media is another agency that specializes in infographics. As the world moves faster each day, it is necessary to communicate your message in a quick, clear and engaging way that sets it apart from the noise. You can see some of their infographics in their work section.

Nice website w/ lovely icons too.

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Infographics is their iPhone / iPad app in lieu of a newsletter. Pretty smart self-promo strategy.

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They say knowledge is power, but how do we make knowledge powerful? The Power of Data Visualization video.

This morning I am stricken and saddened. Just read the news that Arnaud Mercier aka Elixir Studio (about 12-13 yrs ago) has passed. Founding partner of Area17 (also refers to the optical cortex of the brain where visual data is received, patterns are recognized and images are formulated. This is not a coincidence) have issued this message.

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Addendum: Area17 released a short summary of what happened.

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He was a pioneer, visionary and his talent will be greatly missed in the design community. Through the years always supported his career and efforts. What a loss. I am so sad.

Follows a little homage to a great designer.

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Meet Arnaud Mercier, art direction and embark on a voyage into a breath taking sweeping view of a one of a kind portfolio.

At Elixir Studio you discover his unique style, his jaw dropping pictures and flash storyboards that which makes Arnaud an accomplished master communication designer.

Best of the Year (BOTY) recipient in 2002.

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From the *subway* experiment to interface designs for Blastradius studio and reknown clients, each work is different and extensive. Such profound thought is given to visual placement for navigation and text as well as branding integration… one very well should spend lots of time, learning from him.

Don’t miss his ‘Journey on flash movie’ and watch how the frames unfold. I must have watched it about x4 times!

But there is more! Be it picture montages, print design, logotypes or design stills, there is not one single entry that is boring.

Another of his quality is understanding chromatics. The play of color, the contrast, these little bits of numbers and arrows, though a style that is much in used… sorry but not with this kind of subtlety!

I bet even his discarded work would be worth seeing.

Now, can somebody book this guy to publish his own work? Wish I could ’cause I would.

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circa: 1999-2000

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Arnaud Mercier is now operating under AREA17.

circa: February 2002

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Where do great talent go? At AREA17, home of extra prolific creative execution master Arnaud Mercier (who was listed as a design forte recipient back in 2002) et al.

Luckily for us, most of his outstanding past work is still available for viewing.

Now what do you think of the information tree-like navigation?

Again, LUV his work!

circa: December 2006

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AREA17 located in both Paris and New York, founded by Arnaud Mercier have a new website.. Anyhow, they have a tagline that pretty much summarize their approach:

We believe websites can change people’s lives.. is that crazy?

circa: March 2010

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He is also the founder of these 3 services which highlight his personality, temparement and interests. He was aiming at facilitating human interactions in art, career and commerce.

Subfolio – customizable web interface to your file system

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Krrb – connect with your neighbors in-person commerce

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Slash – a mobile / online contemporary art agenda

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Sooo grateful to have found a repository of large graphics of his early work. There are much more – follow link below to see.

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via: Graphic ExchanGE

Pixl™ by Innoiz. Explore pixels and colors behind photography. Create countless combinations of fantastic imagery with a simple touch.

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This is a creative tool for iPhone and iPad that let people to (re)explore their pictures. People can play with several settings such as the size of the pixels, the color, the contrast., select some pattern… and then the application will generate a new composition from the original picture.

Result is an infinity of artworks. Each output is unique.

Watch the demo.

Got news! Just finished assembling the Viva mobility! directory and category. Find edgy articles, apps, dev studios and accessories.

Will revisit the apps on my iPhone and write a review for those I use most. Will keep my ears to the ground to see what new developments are happening in the field at large including such as new devices, OS and breakthrough.

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Black Diamond is a gorgeous 3D interactive mood lighting iPhone Dock. The free Black Diamond app on your iPhone, mounted in its dock, can deliver 5 different color schemes that will resurrect the semi-transparent black dome to blush with mesmerizing colors.

The design was made by Ken Ouyang, who is an electrical engineer turned designer.

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CKIE is an international funding and ordering platform for product design.