SpinArt will remind you of childhood art projects.  Playing with SpinArt feels like a combination of blowing paint with a straw, tie-dying and that game (whose name I cannot remember) where you make geometric patterns by drawing with round plastic things that spin.  But SpinArt is not messy, and it is not just for kids.
When [...]

While there are a slew of iPhone apps that give you the opportunity to be creative, and it is more unusual for an app to allow for creativity on multiple levels.  Type Drawing does just that:  it allows you to write and draw, combining the two to make captivating visual art.
I immediately fell in love [...]

What are fractals? I have no idea. Are they be relaxing? Nebula – Relax with Fractals proves that they are.
It has been about twenty years since my last math or physics class, so I looked up fractals on the web. What I sort of understand is that fractals are geometric shapes that are [...]

Zen Magic – As the iTunes App Store continues to grow and expand, there are more and more applications that let users doodle, draw and write on the iPhone’s touch screen. As a result, designers of such apps need to become increasingly creative in order for their offerings to stand out from the crowd. Zen [...]

Galactica is a groovy, transporting app for your iPhone. Did you ever dim the lights, turn on trance music and stare at your lava lamp as it morphed and swam?  Galactica from Thumbspark Limited provides a similar sensory experience, except you are in charge of the dynamic ebbs and flows of the app.
Visually stimulating and [...]

Jiyuka – Sometimes, nature and technology are just not meant to collide. However, at other times, the result can be quite beautiful. Jiyuka, created by Wolfgang Steiner, is described on iTunes as “a modern form of Ikebana, the traditional Japanese art of flower arrangement.”
And, well, that is what Jiyuka is. The concept is quite simple. Using [...]

ColorSplash, from Hendrik Kueck, is both entertaining and frustrating to use, at least if your fingers are the size of premium hot dogs. It’s an image-manipulation app that enables you to convert your color photos into black and white and then restore the color to objects you would like to highlight.
The effect is called a [...]

Artisan is another artistic app for iPhone and iPod Touch that allows you to manipulate colored particles of light on your screen into swirls of varying color, shape, and transparency. Similar to the developer’s other app, Spawn Illuminati and along the same lines, though less sophisticated than Pixi, Artisan is a basic touch screen canvas with an instruction menu that allows you to create custom designs.

Would you like to add a painterly effect to your photos? ArtCamera, from MacPhun, enables you to imitate the styles of famous artists such as Warhol, Picasso and Monet. Or at least that’s the idea. The results are really not that similar to the real thing, but it’s still entertaining to see what kinds of [...]

I live in New York. For the the first 26 years of my life, I lived in Florida, but now I live in New York. And New York? Is cold. So, to be totally honest, I’m really kind of over snow. And because of that, I should probably hate The Flakery, an application created by Paul Maciorowski that allows users to create virtual paper snowflakes.