Teachers often write important points on a whiteboard to emphasize things they want students to remember. This is even better.

The Royal Society of Art (RSA) in London has collaborated with illustrator Andrew Park to animate talks given at RSA. This video takes an excerpt from Daniel H. Pink’s lecture on “Drive: The Truth About What Motivates Us” and visually brings Pink’s key points to life. In addition to “Drive,” Pink is the author of “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future” — both recommended reading.

Yes, this video is long (10 minutes), but Pink, as always, has thought-provoking things to say, and Park’s sketches are fun and fascinating to view.

USA
This take-off on the famous painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware during the Revolution against Britain alludes to the fact that Team USA will face a formidable challenge in the opening group stage matches against England. The team USA boat bears the nation’s motto “E Pluribus Unum,” Latin for “Out of Many, One.”

Denmark
The heist film “Ocean’s Eleven” inspired this poster showing coach Martin Olsen and the team from Denmark ready to steal the trophy.

Since last spring illustrator Craig Frazier has posted a new drawing online each week, inviting @Issue readers to submit a caption to explain what’s going on. Readers emailed him more than 8,000 captions during the course of his Drawords project from places like Slovenia, Paris, Dallas, Scotland, Estonia, Milwaukee, Australia, San Francisco and Trenton. “The project has been a testament to the power of the Internet to create a forum for worldwide participation on a single creative endeavor,” he says. Craig personally reviewed every submission to pick the week’s winning entry and “almost selected” winners. “I looked for wit, subtlety, surprise, and particularly insight into the drawings that I, frankly, didn’t see,” he explains.

For us, Craig’s project proved that when designers and writers bring their own unique perspective to a topic, the result can be more imaginative, quirky and stronger. Interestingly, the frequent similarity between “almost selected” entries also showed us that certain themes are universal and that humor and wit know no cultural borders.

Drawords is now available in book form at www.craigfrazier.com. In thanking readers for their entries, Craig adds “I hope this project brought a moment of frivolity, if not creative challenge, to you – I know it did both for me.”

The publication of Noma Bar’s new book Negative Space reminds us what a provocative artist he is. Bar’s editorial illustrations pare away the superfluous and cut to the bone of the idea. Using the technique of negative space, he combines a flat graphic silhouetted image with the shape surrounding it to create an illustration rich with meaning. Discovering the image within the image causes the readers to pause and contemplate the larger story being told.

An Israeli-born illustrator Bar studied graphic design and typography at the Jerusalem Academy of Art and Design before moving to London in 2001. His work has appeared in numerous illustrious publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Economist. Bar has said that the inspiration for his distinctive graphic style emerged during the first Gulf War when he was sitting in a shelter with his family. Perusing a newspaper, he happened upon the black radioactivity symbol on a yellow background, which reminded him of the dark eyebrows and mustache of Saddam Hussein. Sketching a silhouette around it, he found that it became an instantly recognizable caricature. Upon relocating to London a few years later, he included the Saddam drawing in his portfolio; its strong concept helped win him his first assignment from Time Out London.

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The days of artists conspicuously sketching and painting on drawing pads or at an easel may be over. All the tools that one needs are available in a palm-sized iPhone; passersby don’t know if the person is text messaging or creating a digital masterpiece.

Artist Jorge Colombo, who used the Brushes app to create the first iPhone-illustrated cover for The New Yorker’s June 1 issue has done it again with the Manhattan skyline at night on its November 16 cover. Although Colombo arguably can be called “the father of iPhone art,” he has owned an iPhone only since February 2009 and started “finger painting” using the Brushes app after that. Thanks to Colombo and a few other pioneers, what just was a cool Internet Café “parlor trick” to amuse geeky friends a few months ago has become a serious art medium. This week’s Huffington Post is even featuring iPhone drawings submitted by readers. The variety of styles, nuances of colors, level of detail and sophistication are amazing to behold.

Probably even Colombo couldn’t have predicted his meteoric rise to iPhone art fame. Born in Lisbon, Portugal, Colombo came to the United States in 1989 and has worked as a photographer, illustrator and graphic designer. He was the art director of Chicago’s NewCity, San Francisco magazine and Jungle Media in New York City, and has published three books in Portugal. His illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker for more than a decade.

Since February, Colombo has drawn all of his paintings with his finger, which evokes a dreamy painterly quality that runs counter to the hard-edged exactness of digital technology. The backlit screen of the iPhone has made it possible for him to draw in dark surroundings, and most of Colombo’s published iPhone drawings feature night scenes. What’s more, it has given him and other iPhone artists the spontaneity to take advantage of the moment without the need to haul around pens and pads and all the accoutrements artists tend to need.

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