Jorge Columbo

This Week’s New Yorker Cover, Brought to You by the iPhone

Peter Kafka in Media on May 25, 2009 at 12:00 pm PT

Publisher Condé Nast gets plenty of well-deserved criticism for its slow embrace of technology and the Web, but some of its individual titles do some interesting stuff. To wit: This video, which depicts how artist Jorge Columbo created this week’s cover art in an hour, using an iPhone and an app called Brushes.