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Paper on iPhone – Coming Soon – (Includes A Little History….)
The team at FiftyThree share a core belief that human beings are essentially creative. The trouble is, by the time people graduate, get a job and take on other responsibilities, they often believe they’re not creative. They feel the phrase “I’m not creative” needs to be eradicated. As a species we’ve evolved with intelligent brains and dexterous hands, plus most of us have access to unlimited ideas and inspiration. Creating is what unlocks our potential. It makes business sense as well; innovation trumps efficiency in the long run. The idea that anyone can be creative and benefit from doing so is a concept FiftyThree took forward when they formed FiftyThree…
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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…
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Paper – Temporarily Free
Paper is a beautiful app for your iOS device designed to aid anything from quick sketches to note taking to inspiration. It comes with a good selection of paper textures and high res retina painting, a large selection of sketching tool and more. Usually this universal (for iPhone and iPad) retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today you can pick it up for free. Click here to download.
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‘Paper’ iPad App Partners With Moleskin – Raises $15m
A very interesting article published by Stuart Dredge for The Guardian this afternoon discusses the developers behind the uber popular app, Paper, FiftyThree in which in their latest Series A funding, they raised $15m and ‘explicitly outlined ambitions for “moving beyond touch and into the physical world of accessories” – drawing on its team’s hardware experience within Microsoft (Kinect, Xbox and the never-launched Courier) and Sonos’. ‘In 2013, FiftyThree has been taking Paper’s digital charms into the physical world. Earlier this year, it created a customised version of the app for the Fashion Rules exhibition at Kensington Palace in London, helping visitors design their own dresses while gazing at real royal…
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PictureBook – The Sight of Envy .Babel – By Benamon Tame
We’re delighted to publish Benamon Tame’s second article to his new column PictureBook. In PictureBook Benamon concentrates on the the story behind the image. As Benamon himself describes it: ‘As Photographic artists we do not just capture stories but create them, the journey behind and the image we present. PictureBook draws on Images selected from my own story series but will also look at the work of the other story tellers within the community’. Don’t miss this uber creative article from Benamon, fabulous piece. Over to you Benamon. (foreword by Joanne Carter). “Babel raised his hands and blinked. He sat like a strange peacock and stretched out his…
