ustwo™ is a digital user interface company that develops pioneering user experiences and apps for some of the world’s leading brands.
Studio
27 June 2010
“The World's coolest iPad app designers”
The Computer Arts’ iPad special recently featured an exclusive studio profile on ustwo™.
A full 8 page spread all about the studio of dreams and our latest apps, including everything you need to know about the design and development behind the infamous Granimator™.
Within the pages of this special issue from the team behind Computer Arts magazine, you’ll find loads of information for creating iPad content, whether for paying clients or for your own creative intentions.
You can buy 'iPad: The creative pro's guide’ here!
ustwo™ hosts a special event at the Ginza Apple Store
ustwo's team Granimator™ recently returned from Tokyo after successfully hosting a special event at the Ginza Apple Store on 24th June.
The event officially launched the latest worldwide release of a variety of Japanese artists packs made available for the Granimator™ iPad app. Granimator™ users now have access to artist packs from Tokyo artist Houxo Que, world renowned design studios Moving Brands, Groovisions, DEVILROBOTS, Power Graphixx and a capsule collection of six GASBOOK artists including: ten_do_ten, Hidehito Shinno,Yuko Kanatani, shinpei ONISHI,SONPUB, Hiroshi Iguchi.
mills, co-founder of ustwo™ says: “Design in Japan is where it’s at and what we witnessed out there was mind-blowing. The collaborators we’re working with in Japan have exactly the vision we needed to take the Granimator™ to another level.”
Creatouch™ is a preloaded, design-focused wallpaper creator application on the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10™ and X10™ Mini & X10™ Mini Pro – which allows users to personalise the home screen of their phone.
Creatouch™ offers a number of truly bespoke tools to create personalised wallpapers for the X10 home screen. Using any of the Creatouch™ designer assets and colours, a user can draw free-form compositions, insert text, numbers and designer symbols to overlay on predefined backgrounds or take it one step further by creating on one of their own images from the camera gallery.
Setting or saving the wallpaper on their Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10™ Phone, is just a simple press away. Once the user is happy with their creation they can share it via social networks, including Facebook and Picasa.
The videos were designed to show off the awesome screen quality and video experience of these Sony Ericsson phones, plus be engaging, innovative and have a “wow” factor that makes people want to show them to their friends! We think we achieved that…
ustwo™ – driven by its mission to ‘make products smile’ – worked with directors Chris Sweeney and Ross Cooper/ Bugsy Steel, to create a unique visual concept for each of the three devices.
Creative Review – ustwo™ and John Burgerman's Inkstrumental iPhone app
ustwo™ – the app developer that gave us MouthOff™ and also the Granimator™ iPad app – has just released Inkstrumental™, the interactive fruit of a collaboration with illustrator Jon Burgerman...
Creative Review – iPad users get ready to granimate
Most of the iPad apps we've seen so far have been along the lines of digital magazine apps. Granimator, a new app by ustwo, refreshingly, looks to make the most of the interactive touch screen and let users be creative with that functionality - rather than simply swiping a screen to get to another "page" (yawn).
