Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn

Posts filed under Applications

New Apple iTunes App Store Layout

Apple has slowly been pushing out updates to it’s app store today. Not all apps are benefiting yet from the new cleaned up interface, but our Rob Thomas Fanbase application was switched over a few hours ago. The layout has a lot more whitespace, larger download/buy button and multiple detail images of the application on [...]

The 4G Connected Car Prototype

Today Alcatel-Lucent and QNX announced the 4G connected car prototype in New York. As part of the NG Connect program (an ecosystem built around 4G connectivity) Atlantic Records was proud to create a version of our award winning Fanbase platform for the music fan on the road. The car contains 4 internet connected screens allowing [...]

Adobe MAX Award nomination and conference participation

Last month, I attended the 2009 Adobe Max conference and wanted to share a few exciting developments at Atlantic Records in conjunction with Adobe and the Flash platform. We were nominated for a Max Award and showcased two new products, one for connected TVs and set top boxes and another for the connected car. Below [...]

Designing iPhone apps using Adobe Flash CS5 and AIR

Arguably the biggest announcement from Adobe’s MAX conference last week was the (future) ability to create iPhone applications using Flash CS5. There were several sessions that materialized shortly after the announcement, but this session by Arno Gourdol was by far the most useful and practical. Check out the video below.

Interview in Adobe’s Edge Newsletter

I was interviewed a few months ago by Adobe for an article titled “From black box to contextual applications” which ran in this month in Adobe’s Edge newsletter and on the Adobe.com site. The goal of a contextual application is to provide a unified experience across multiple devices, while leveraging the unique capabilities and qualities [...]

Atlantic and Fanbase in Wired and Billboard

Today Atlantic Records and Fanbase received amazing mentions in Billboard and Wired Magazines. Rob Thomas was named one of Billboard’s Top 10 Wireless artists today in an article that highlights his early adoption of the Fanbase platform. They discuss his use of Fanbase Desktop, Fanbase Mobile for Flash Lite, and Fanbase for the iPhone as [...]

Vote for Fanbase Mobile!

At Atlantic we have been working on a project called Fanbase for the last 18 months. Fanbase is a suite of applications that collect content about musicians from all over the web into a single spot that can be viewed on computers, phones and other devices. Earlier this year we won a Webby award, a [...]

2009 Mobile Excellence Awards – Finalist

Fanbase Mobile is now a finalist for the 2009 Mobile Excellence Awards. We’ve been included in the Best Adapted or Companion Program category along with DirectTV and Zannel. Congrats to our partners at Agency.net who built the Flash Lite app for us. Check out our nomination here.

Incredible Mobile Interfaces

Some pretty amazing mobile interfaces from UI and graphics studio TAT (The Astonishing Tribe). They are a Swedish firm that already has work on 270 million devices. If you think the panacea for mobile design is located in Cupertino, these videos may make you think different. TAT Augmented ID Augmented ID is a TAT concept [...]

The CD case as musical instrument

A pretty interesting marketing idea from musician Moldover, a San Francisco based artist who has made his CD case just as desirable as the music itself. Using knowledge of custom circuits, he made the case for his CD into a crude theremin. Check out the YouTube video below.