Jorge Colombo has worked as a designer, as a photographer and as an illustrator for more than 20 years. He’s best known, however, for the iPhone drawings he started doing in February 2009. Four 20×200 editions released in April 2009 led to his first cover for the New Yorker, highlighted by the media everywhere as the first magazine cover ever created on a smartphone. Video animations of his drawings appear weekly on the New Yorker’s website.
Colombo was born in 1963 in Lisbon, Portugal, and moved to the USA in 1989. He lived in Chicago, in San Francisco and has been living in New York City since 1998 with his wife, artist Amy Yoes. He has published three books in Portugal: Fullerton, a retrospective of his 1990s drawings; Of Big and of Small Love, a photographic narrative created in collaboration with novelist Inês Pedrosa; and Lisbon Revisited, a series of tinted photographs inspired by early 20th-century poet Fernando Pessoa.
The New Yorker’s weekly spot has led him to amass an ever-growing collection of New York landscapes. He has started to expand his finger-painting approach to other cities.
