Mobile Digital Art – FiftyThree and Guggenheim bring Digital Art to Classrooms
Creativity isn’t second nature only to a lucky few; we’re all born creative but, over our formative years, it’s slowly trained out of us. This is no doubt why, when asking a second grade class who thinks of themselves as creative, 95% of students will raise their hands. Fast forward to fifth grade and only 50% will, and by high school only 5% of students identify as creative (via). FiftyThree want to help eradicate this trend, which is why they have teamed up with the Guggenheim Museum to do just that. For the past 44 years, the Guggenheim has sent teaching artists into New York City’s public schools through a…
Pencil by Fiftythree – Winners Announced
We are so pleased to announce the winners of our recent Pencil by Fiftythree stylus competition – if you missed the details of that, please go here. We asked readers to submit their wonderful creations to our Instagram section for this competition – #theappwhisperer_pencilcomp – we then explained that the two winning images that achieve the most likes will receive a Pencil by Fiftythree. We received some really fabulous entries and we send many congratulations to @viigge (Victor Sillanpaa) and @gericentonze (Geri Centonze) for their winning artwork. We will be in contact to obtain further details and the prizes will then be sent to you in due course. Thank you…
Pencil by Fiftythree Giveaway!
We’re delighted (due to popular demand) 😉 to offer our readers an opportunity to receive one of two Pencils by Fiftythree in this giveaway. Pencil by Fiftythree the developers of the incredibly popular Paper iOS app have created a stylus that is incredibly exciting. It works with Bluetooth technology and connects to your iPad within the Paper app to offer some fabulous features that you wouldn’t ordinarily associate with a stylus/iPad app pairing. These include palm rejection – allowing you to draw whilst your hand rests on the iPad, use of an eraser at the top of the pencil, there’s also an additional an excellent finger blend mode. There are…
