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Apple App Design Awards 2013 – Winners Announced

Apple has announced the winners of the Apple Design Awards – there are eleven winners and they’re all great apps but perhaps the one that appeals most to us is ProCreate – it’s long been a favourite app with our mobile app columnists and wonderful contributors to our Flickr group – mobile photography & Imagery. Take a look below to see all the winners and read what Apple has to say about Procreate.

If you haven’t picked it up yet, we strongly suggest you do. It retails for $4.99/£2.99/download.

 

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Procreate is a complete art studio at your fingertips, exclusive to iPad. It’s packed with features that artists love — from true-to-life sets of pencils, inks, and brushes, to advanced layer compositing, to unique digital tools. Procreate is a powerhouse of iOS technologies like ARC, Grand Central Dispatch, and OpenGL ES which deliver state-of-the-art performance and responsiveness, 64-bit precision, and smooth 60 fps rendering of canvas sizes up to 4K x 4K. Procreate shares easily with Photoshop, Twitter, Facebook, Weibo, iTunes, Mail, Photos, and Dropbox, lets people preview brushes and other drawing tools before purchasing them with In-App Purchase, and uses Core Bluetooth to connect to accessories. Procreate earns an Apple Design Award for its technical, aesthetic, and creative excellence.

All The Winners

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WWF Together – World Wildlife Fund – iPad – Free/download
Badland – Game – $3.99/£2.49/download
Yahoo! Weather – Free/download
Letterpress – Game – Free/download
Ridiculous Fising – Game – $2.99/£1.99/download
Sky Gamblers – Game – $0.99/£0.69/download
Coda 2 – Mac – Developer tool – $74.99/ £49.99/download
Evernote – Mac/iOS – Free/download
Finish – Task Manager – $0.99/£0.69/download
mosaic.io – utilities – Free/download

 

Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.

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