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addLib App Simulates Sleek Swiss Style for iPhone Pics

by Matthew Zuras on February 4, 2010 at 05:00 PM

Ever fancied yourself a graphic designer but found that you lack the skills to compose an arresting image? As usual nowadays, the iPhone has come to your rescue. A new app called addLib will translate your iPhone photos into works of modernist Swiss style. If you want your blurry, poorly shot pics to look like the products of design luminaries like Jan Tschichold and Josef Müller-Brockmann, look no further.

The app apparently runs an algorithm that chooses from Müller-Brockmann's grid system, fractal theory, the Golden Ratio, and a facial recognition software to create the new image. The only downside (and it is rather major) is that there is currently no customization available. The compositions are drawn from a set of templates, which are only available at random, and the color palette is quite arbitrary. (Nor can you edit the similarly random text that appears on some of the images.) That being said, the majority of photos we ran through addLib turned out very well -- check the gallery below to see for yourself. The app only costs $2 and, compared to any number of other iPhone image manipulators on the market, it's totally worth the price. [From: BoingBoing]

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Tags: addlib, app, design, fractal, golden ratio, GoldenRatio, grid, international typographic style, InternationalTypographicStyle, iphone, jan tschichold, JanTschichold, josef mller-brockmann, JosefMller-brockmann, swiss style, SwissStyle, typography

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