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Creating a New Yorker Cover On the iPhone

Posted by kdawson on from the eye-of-the-beholder dept.

Jaime Leifer writes "The cover of the June 1, 2009, issue of The New Yorker, entitled 'Finger Painting,' was drawn by Jorge Colombo entirely on his iPhone — a first for the magazine. Colombo, a New York-based artist and illustrator, uses the iPhone's Brushes application to vibrantly depict New York street scenes." There's a video recapitulating the creation of the piece, omitting all of the undos.

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  1. Re:Kinda Cool by EkriirkE · · Score: 1, Informative

    *sigh*

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  2. Re:Kinda Cool by EkriirkE · · Score: 2, Informative

    Same company, same concept, 15 years ago...

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  3. Colours for the DS by Spatial · · Score: 2, Informative

    The DS has a homebrew drawing program called 'Colours'. Check out the drawings people have made with it. Unlike the iPhone the DS supports pressure sensitivity, although it's not used in official programs (if I remember correctly it's due to per-unit variance and being forbidden by the official guidelines).

    A PSP-sized device with that kind of capability would be a pretty great portable drawing device. The DS is a bit too small for me.

  4. Re:So what's the news? Something subtle. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    an iPhone with a beefier processor, some USB ports and a mini HDMI port (a la Macbook) and you have your next desktop replacement device. Not only would you have phone calls, but with an HDMI - VGA adaptor, you have a screen to do world processing, image editing, video editing, audio editing, 3D, whatever.

    This is a joke right? No serious professional is going to be doing image/video editing or drawing on a color-inaccurate 3.5" screen.

    This is a joke right? No serious professional is going to be doing image/video editing or drawing on a color-inaccurate 3.5" screen.

    Yeah. So the guy that just created and SOLD the cover of the bloody NEW YORKER on the iPhone is not a "serious professional", right?

    Matter of fact, in my field, thousands of working photojournalists (those in the top ranks among them) work with similar (color-inacurate) screens and no color correction. The color differences are subtle in 99% of the cases, and don't matter in 99.9% of them, especially when printed in newspaper and/or magazine papers.