According to a report at the New York Times, the cover art for the June 1st edition of The New Yorker was created on an iPhone. Jorge Colombo virtually ‘inked’ the illustration on his iPhone with an app called ‘Brushes‘ ($4.99 in the App Store). Looking at the image above you’d swear it was done by hand, not by a device you can easily store in your pocket… and that is one of the reasons Colombo enjoys the iPhone so much. Françoise Mouly, the art editor for The New Yorker agrees:
“The best feature of it is that it doesn’t feel like something that was done digitally; quite the opposite…All too often the technology is directed in only one direction, which is to make things more tight, and this, what he did very well, is use this technology for something that is free flowing, and I think that’s what makes it so poetic and magical.”
Colombo is thrilled with the final product, and loves the anonymity the iPhone allows him to have:
“Absolutely nobody can tell I am drawing…In fact, once I was doing the drawing at some place, and my wife was around, and they asked her why did I have to work so hard? I seemed to be always on my iPhone sending messages.”
Two thumbs up Jorge… well done!