51 Japanese Characters for iPhone

51 Japanese Characters for iPhone

An iPhone app version of Peter Machat’s “51 Japanese Characters” project is now out.

The project was initially created as a series of illustrations depicting cultural members found in Japanese society, and available for purchase as a poster or on postcards, or viewable online. The iPhone app version — which includes all 51 characters, as well as their info text (in English, German, and Japanese) — is a free download from the iTunes App Store.

51 Japanese Characters [App.itize.us]

Update: The post originally listed Steffen Itterheim as the creator of the “51 Japanese Characters” project, and was corrected to credit Peter Machat as the creator. Itterheim created the app.

What are readers saying?

  • Bobbito says:

    Did you actually surfed the site you’ve linked to?
    The website 51 Japanese Characters and the app’s iTunes store page states Peter Machat being the author of all Illustrations. Just mentioning the technical author of this app and filing your post under tags like “design” and “illustration” looks a lot like you’d like Steffen do be understood as the only author?!

    Really?

  • Jean Snow says:

    That’s my bad, definitely. I actually posted about that site back in 2008 (the post is here), and that’s why I didn’t check the site again and notice the name — when I saw the post about the app, I remembered that site, and just assumed that was the name of the creator. I’m going to fix the post.

  • Bobbito says:

    Thanks Jean,
    Very nice to see people taking care!

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