The New Yorker goes New Age.

A relatively new application for the iPhone was used to create the cover of the New Yorker, the New York Times reports this morning.

WOW. Completely on the iphone. Not on a Mac with a stylus, on a small screen with a finger.

This got me to wondering just how portable things will soon get for us creative types. It wasn’t long ago that anyone creating graphics or art pieces were chained to a desk and a large workstation or mac. I personally work off a laptop because, well, I’m fickle and like to change scenery. But I wouldn’t have been able to do that 6 years ago… laptops just couldn’t support my software demands. Now it’s me that can’t trip up my laptop… believe me I’ve tried (All programs open… large files… nothin’ Not even a slight whine from my pc).

Still… that tiny screen. How in the heck did he get so precise? How exactly did he get the fine lines plus the large smudges in this piece? Amazing to me. So amazing I paid the $4.99 for the app and have been playing around with it ever since. It’s pretty amazing. You can zoom to get the detail, or use a transparency on your stroke to get a watercolor effect.  Some of my initial try-outs are below from my Flickr stream.

We won’t be comping ad campaigns from the phone anytime soon, but this is still pretty amazing. You can check out the story on the cover here… it has an awesome movie showing the steps the artist took to create the piece.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/tny/2009/05/jorge-colombo-iphone-cover.html

Here are my iPhone sketches… maybe more to come: