The Genius and I suspect that the missing titles are actually displaying in the original WHITE text (on the white background)–making them invisible in the new display scheme. with no titles displaying anywhere near them. That is, in the new iteration of the video app, all movie thumbnails display on a WHITE background (as opposed to the original BLACK). I just returned from an appointment with an Apple Genius in my city, showing him what has come to be a deal-killer in my newly-updated iPad. Functionality pluses remain to be seen in the days and weeks ahead, of course.
I absolutely cannot stand any part of the new iOS 7 “look.” It is puerile, simplistic, and uninspiringly two-dimensional. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.
I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.
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I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. From Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford Commencement Address: