Retail Refugees

For skeptics, iTunes is a fantastic place to shop for music and entertainment because it is so trustworthy. Frog Design, which is responsible for some of the most memorable offline product designs in history from the Sony Walkman to the original Apple iMac as well as having nurtured designers like Ross Lovegrove and Yves Behar, has released their newest product design- online.

Postcard Express, the iPhone app, lets you take geo-tagged snapshots and send them along to friends in cool postcard templates. Fast Company elaborates, “

This is Frog Design’s first iPhone app, and presumable it won’t be the last: Given all the in-house know-how among its 400 employees, apps could provide a pretty clever way of pulling in a bit of extra money. Hopefully, its competitors such as IDEO and Smart Design will also get on the game.

Meanwhile, on the travel front, the iPhone has already become almost an essential gadget for travelers, thanks to the magic of geolocation–there are literally hundreds of useful apps, but a few to check out in particular include Roadtrippr, the local guides by Pocket Places, Local Eats, and Lonely Planet City Guides.”

Actually, IDEO already began publishing iPhone apps earlier this year.

One of my personal favorites is Balloonimals.

http://www.ideotoylab.com/

Comment by David July 13, 2009 @ 2:37 pm

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Thanks David- I will definitely check out the app

Comment by blogretailrefugees July 13, 2009 @ 3:51 pm

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