The contest consist in painting/coloring a sketch titled “What The Poodle!?” by illustrator Živko Kondić. In this sketch the name of the character is Poodel, and it’s a poodle with a “mild” case of character disorder.

The deadline is December 8, 2009.

As Drawing Apps for the iPhone go, there are plenty. Brushes is nice. Layers is another with a lot of features attractive to those who sketch. While they’re better than Sketchbook Mobile in some areas, Sketchbook Mobile has a much better set of brush options with more responsive actions than the other two. Here is the quick comparison of all three.

	Brushes (version 2.0)	Layers (version 1.0)	Sketchbook Mobile (version 1.0)
Export Size	320 x 480	512 x 512	1024 x 682 (3GS) 600 x 400 (Other)
Export Format	to Photos	to Photos, Email JPEG, Email PSD	to Photos, Email PNG
Brushes	No presets, Customizable	10 presets, Customizable	25 presets, Customizable
Layers	4	5	6 (3GS) 3 (Other)
Layer Reorder
Layer Transparency
Layer Duplicate
Layer Rotate
Layer Hide
Layer Merge
Layer Delete
Layer Import Photo
Layer Background Fill
Undo/Redo
Cropping
Gallery
Help/Tips
Eyedropper (ColorPicker)
Pan/Zoom
Sync
Landscape Mode
Price	$4.99	$4.99	$2.99
Website	Link	Link	Link

Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3. These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store.*

A public beta of Flash Professional CS5 with prerelease support for building applications for iPhone is planned for later this year. Sign up to be notified when the beta starts.

I have been questioning why they have not moved to this model before when others are doing so such as haXe, Unity3D and MonoTouch.  Getting Flash on the web browsers on a mobile is hard because Flash is pretty CPU intensive on embedded devices which is really where computers were in the late 90’s and close to 400-600 MHz processors.  Today these machines wouldn’t be able to run Flash very well and that is the same effect you get on a mobile phone.  But cross-compiling to native, similar to how Unity 3D does it or other solutions like MonoTouch and XNATouch, this is the best solution until mobile/embedded devices have 1GHz processors and more than 500MB of memory. Adobe is using LLVM, much like the Alchemy model, to achieve getting AS3 content onto an iPhone/Touch with AOT or Ahead of Time compilation rather than JIT compilation.

So how do you build an application for the iPhone? It’s simple, really. The forthcoming beta of Adobe Flash Professional CS5 incorporates the ability to create an iPhone application. You have access to nearly all the AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1 APIs. For example, you can use APIs such as RTMP, Remote Shared Objects, and AMF as well as AIR APIs like SQLite and filesystem access. For more information see the developer FAQ on Adobe Labs.

I am glad to see Adobe finally moving on mobile platforms beyond Flashlite.  Flashlite is a poor solution in most cases on embedded devices because they really need native apps to perform, again due to the hardware limitations and it is a whole new platform to learn. Adobe is doing the hard work to make it easy to get developers content on the new embedded devices that are storming the world such as the iPhone and Touch.

• Info on the CS5 Beta
• Sign up for the beta of CS5
• FAQ on Flash iPhone Applications
• Developer article on how the LLVM cross compiling will work
• Flash 10 full version on all phones by Q2 2010 except iPhone

Release: May 2009
Price: € 39,90 / $ 60,00 / £ 35,00
Format: 24 x 30 cm
Features: 192 pages, full colour, hardcover, half linen, silver embossing, forewords by Paola Antonelli (MoMA, New York) and Marian Bantjes
ISBN: 978-3-89955-242-3

Oded Ezer presents the outstanding work of visionary typographer, graphic designer and artist Oded Ezer for the first time. He explores the anatomy of letters through his almost scientific approach to type design and creates Hebrew and Latin characters and alphabets that integrate elements atypical for font design. This book documents his type art and typographic experiments as well as his refined graphic designs, logos and unique font designs. This publication showcases his remarkable creative output and offers a rare insight into Ezer’s design process.

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