Yerba Buena Poster Created By Stretching App Icons, Download A Recreated Version As A Wallpaper

On Friday, workers put up the traditional event banners on the Yerba Buena building in which Apple is holding its special media event next Wednesday. You can have a look at the banners here, but as an eagle-eyed reader of MacRumors realised, it seems as if Apple made the poster by stretching various app icons vertically. Another one of MacRumor’s readers, roosternugget, put together a little graphic to indicate which apps were most likely used (see below). It’s pretty clever by Apple’s designers to stretch iPhone app icons vertically and use it as the event poster, given we expect the iPhone 5 itself to feature a vertically larger (or “stretched) display. If you recall, Apple also had fun with the media event invitation which subtly features a shadow with the number “5” coming down from the number 12.

With this knowledge, I decided to open Photoshop and do my best to recreate the event poster. Now it certainly isn’t a perfect recreation but I’ve done my best and it comes close to the banner featured in a photo below. I’ve created multiple versions with and without the Apple logo and for various screen resolutions so that you can use it as a wallpaper, including the following:

[16:10] 2880 x 1800 - aka. Retina MacBook Pro

[16:9] 2880 x 1620

[5:4] 1280 x 1024

iPhone 4/4S

iPhone 5

iPad (Retina)

Download the wallpapers (.zip archive)

Direct links for iOS devices:

iPhone 4/4S (no logo)

iPhone 4/4S (logo)

iPad (no logo)

iPad (logo)

iPhone 5 (no logo)

iPhone 5 (logo)

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