Apple's recent document entitled "iPad Human Interface Guidelines", (http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/General/Conceptual/iPadHIG/DesignGuidelines/DesignGuidelines.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40009446-CH3-SW3), is an interesting read to be sure, but it also contains interesting news for those of us who are artists, in the form of the suggestion in the text of the wisdom of productive interplay between web developers and fine artists.
In that text, I was pleased for all artists to read Apple suggesting in a clear voice that in designing apps for the iPad, the designers "should consider hiring a professional artist to create first-rate graphics that people will admire".
What an interesting idea, especially for the artist familiar with whatever static traditional, eccentric or unique techniques, whose baroque traceries and bucolic or lyrical atmospheres or other fluffy "little old lady" stuff is out of vogue, or whose Fibronacci compulsions and deep geomancies have not yet found a fuller setting.
Developers take note! (har har)
