Gallery: Meet the New Artists Who Will Grace Apple Stores
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Apple is one of many corporations that's tapping their creative community for new marketing materials. Start Something New is an Apple-sponsored collection of works, all created with Apple products.
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Self-titled “iPad and Surface artist” Roz Hall used an iPad Air 2 and Procreate to paint his portrait series.
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Hall lectures at a university, and this series captures the faces of students and characters on campus.
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Hall's paintings, along with the work of 11 other lucky artists, will be displayed in Apple stores across the country.
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Photographer Marcelo Gomes often shoots foggy, colorful images.
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For Apple, he used an iPhone 6 Plus to capture sheets of Color Aid paper, and the Slow Shutter! app to drag out the exposure.
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Japanese-born, London-based illustrator Nomoco used the Brushes Redux App on an iPad Air 2.
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The app basically lets you finger paint with pixels.
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The effect is a little more subtle, and makes these ghostly characters look like they've been caught mid-movement.
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Like most of her other work, this series features fluid, but ornamental, paintings of female characters.
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Bay Area photographer Pei Ketron's close up shots of buildings become almost abstracts.
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On a day to day basis, Petron shoots for a mix of commercial and non-profit organizations, ranging from Bloomingdale's to UNICEF.
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She took these shots with the iPhone 6's camera and the iOS 8 upgraded exposure control.
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Illustrator duo Craig & Karl are known for their poppy, patterned portraits of famous faces like Obama and Lebron. They created this while in different continents, sharing ideas through Facetime, iMessage, and then by building it up with iDraw and Waterlogue.
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