New Yorker Cover Painted with iPhone App
Gizmodo reported today that artist Jorge Colombo used the iPod app Brushes to fingerpaint the June 1 cover of the New Yorker magazine. Watch the video below on the artist’s process using the app. The apparent contradiction
Classic New Yorker cover
between the New Yorker’s gravitas and Apple’s youth culture duly noted. However, as one commenter noted, graphic artist/animator Francoise Mouly (spouse and collaborator of Art Spiegelmann) is in charge of covers, which may explain the adventurous decision. Here’s a link to the New Yorker blog piece on the cover.
This may indeed be a gimmick. Time will tell if other artists adopt iPhone tools–and for what reasons. The iPhone would make an awfully light sketchpad wherever its owner travels. It does seem a bit ironic that the New Yorker did it before a musical group used the app to paint the cover of its next album/CD.
Tags: blog, Brushes, Gizmodo, iPhone, iPhone app, iPhone tools, New Yorker, Video
This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 at 3:40 pm and is filed under Content, Home Feature, Monetizing Mobile.
I saw this linked through on Twitter and thought it was just amazing. I’m not a regular reader of the New Yorker…nor do I exhibit even one iota of the artistic ability of Jorge Colombo…maybe it is that juxtaposition that made this so fascinating for me.
Or maybe it gave me the hope that I, too, could create something cool in just one hour with this particular iPhone app. Meh.
Thanks for covering this - quite a sign of the times, indeed!
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