Veteran artist Jorge Colombo created this week’s cover of The New Yorker with the iPhone application Brushes. The short article about the cover is fantastic– the application, which is available for $4.99 on iTunes, allows Colombo to draw in the dark with ease and work on busy New York City streets without drawing attention to himself (“most pedestrians assume he’s checking his email”). Check out the story and a video reprising Colombo’s creation- finger stroke by finger stroke- here.
One of Colombo’s iPhone drawings, not the cover art piece (that would be too easy!), is pictured above– a few of his NYC images are available as limited edition prints on the 20×200 website at the really affordable range of $20-$200. Gotta be quick though, the site counts down the number of prints remaining and they’re selling fast.
