Touch Press in the News
December 06, 2011
The Waste Land wins at Futurebook
We (and I include Faber and Faber when I say we) won "Best Adult App" - hooray! We're not terribly sure about the epithet as it sounds like we may require an 18+ rating on the app store.
November 28, 2011
X is for X-Ray launches
We made a wee video of how to use the app:
November 15, 2011
The Futurebook Awards nomination!
We made the shortlist for Best Adult App for The Waste Land. Woohoo!
October 31, 2011
Happy Halloween!
Our next title is nearly ready! Here's a suitably scary snippet:
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September 27, 2011
We love The Guardian very much.
We seem to have managed to scoop 2 (and a bit if you count Biophilia) of their Top 50 iPad apps!
July 29, 2011
Possibly the best review of The Elements for iPad ever.
July 27, 2011
BBC Click podcast features Max talking about Björk's Biophilia project.
Listen here - Max is first up.
July 05, 2011
The Guardian books podcast features The Waste Land for iPad
Listen here - we feature at about 18 minutes in.
July 03, 2011
Solar System for iPad is now also available in Japanese
太陽系 has arrived on the Japanese iTunes store.
July 01, 2011
Solar System for iPad is now available in German
Willkommen im Sonnensystem für iPad!
June 12, 2011
TS Eliot's The Waste Land replaces Angry Birds as the greatest modernist App
Our favourite headline of the day. We're proud to get a work of great literature featured on Gizmodo (read more).
June 12, 2011
The Observer has a wonderful review of The Waste Land
Our favourite review of the day - John Naughton's considered opinions and views. (read more).
June 12, 2011
Hilary Kenna blogs about the design of The Waste Land
A detailed and absorbing blogpost giving real insight into the world of great electronic media design (read more).
June 10, 2011
The Waste Land for iPad is US iPad App of the week!
We're watching to see how close it gets to Angry Birds.
June 7, 2011
The newly released The Waste Land for iPad is featured on the Guardian's website
Watch an excellent video interview with our colleagues at Faber and Faber.
May 17, 2011
Solar System for iPad won the FutureBook Digital Innovation Prize at the Bookseller awards last night
Our collaboration with Faber and Faber and Marcus Chown is an award-winner (read more).
May 13, 2011
Gems and Jewels for iPad is iPad App of the Week!
We're blown away. Huge excitement in the office as we wake up to find our bling at the top of the iTunes store.
May 09, 2011
Fast Company names Touch Press as one of the top 10 most innovative companies in media.
We come in at number four for setting the bar for what a book should look like on the iPad.
May 04, 2011
The Guardian app blog reviews Gems and Jewels for iPad.
Stuart Dredge wonders where the next generation of interactive books will take us.
April 30, 2011
Gems and Jewels for iPad on YouTube
Watch as Theo Gray takes Gems and Jewels for iPad for a spin.
March 20, 2011
Solar System for iPad Wins FUTUReBOOK Award
The Solar System for iPad was chosen as "Best App" in the first ever FutureBook Digital Innovation awards held in central London...(read more)
February 15, 2011
Faber and Touch Press Collaborating on iPad Edition of The Waste Land
Touch Press will be working with the British publishing house Faber and Faber on an electronic edition of T. S. Eliot’s great poem The Waste Land, to be released for the Apple iPad in April...(read more)
December 22, 2010
Solar System for iPad Released in Time for Holidays
Solar System for iPad, the first publication to emerge from the recently announced partnership between Faber and Faber and Touch Press, is now available worldwide to download from the Apple iTunes App Store....(read more)
December 22, 2010
Appy days
Marcus Chown has kindly agreed to give an author's perspective on the development process of his new iPad app Solar System: It all began in a Soho restaurant in May...(read more)
November 30, 2010 - FutureBook
Max Whitby, Touch Press speaks at FutureBook 2010
September 2, 2010 - Questional
Whittering On
An experienced film maker and scientist, Dr Max Whitby’s work casts light on the most extraordinary wonders of science. Be it the Periodic Table of Elements or his contribution to the understanding of natural history, his work captures the beauty and elegance of the world around us. Inspired to continue his education and receiving a PhD in Chemistry, Max Whitby proves that following your passion leads to great things. He is the founder of three successful digital media companies, produced numerous Horizon and NOVA documentaries and contributes to a hugely popular website about birds and insects. Dr Whitby allowed us to learn more about The Elements iPad application recently developed at TouchPress... (read more)
April 6, 2010 - Wired.com
Touch The Elements
“I really don’t know how to describe it other than to say you have to see it to believe it… If you checked out a magical version of The Elements from the Hogwarts library, this would be it.”
This was how Theodore Gray describes his application, The Elements: A Visual Exploration for the iPad. I had the opportunity to review the application over the weekend with some science-y friends of mine. All were in agreement: if books like this were around when we were in school, it would have been a lot more fun to learn the periodic table... (read more)