The New Yorker Cover Was Painted With An iPhone

by Joe Coscarelli | 9:22 am, November 10th, 2009

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CV1_TNY_11_16_09.indd Magazines are struggling — have you heard? But let’s look at the bright side: The New Yorker still exists! And that’s more than we can say about a few Condé Nast titles. So as one of the lucky few — classics, even — it’s up to the former kings of the old guard to embrace technology and save everything. That means you, New Yorker!

The Finger Painting blog, weekly sketches by artist Jorge Colombo using the Brushes application for the iPhone, is a nice start. When he painted the June 1, 2009 cover of the magazine, sales of the program soared. People are interested in innovation and Colombo is a novel force in art design. This week, he’s back again with the cover of The New Yorker, as created on a cellular phone, and it’s still original and still beautiful.

See how it’s done in the short clip below:

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jimmymaher

Great cover. Not to take away from the artist, but people have been creating non-technological-looking images with digital tools since the last century. Many of the “paint” programs had brushes and smears and watercolor effects and all that long before the iPhone arrived.On the other hand, working on that little screen has got to be tricky.
Korean Ginseng