Ever wonder how the more-than-50,000 iPhone apps in Apple’s App Store get from the drawing board to your screen? For one of them, the brand new Goddess Tarot app, the road was through Flatbush-based author and artist Kris Waldherr. The gilded app is the newest manifestation of Waldherr’s illustrated brand, and her first foray into the world of hand-held software design. Because apps are, well, the thing to do these days, we asked Waldherr to tell us how she went from idea to execution to approval on the digital celestial reader she’s marketing as “The most beautiful app in the App Store.” Read the rest of this entry »
$25-and-under gift No. 14: Doomed Queens
If Kris Waldherr runs out of ideas for her next book, here’s one she should write: an artist’s guide to career success. Waldherr has parlayed her considerable illustration talents into a suite of books, iphone apps, card decks, prints and even an art licensing business that she runs out of her bright storefront workspace in Ditmas Park.
Her award-winning 2008 book DOOMED QUEENS: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di (Broadway Books, $16), is a brainy chick gift-closet staple, for teenage Tudors fans on up.
In time for the holidays, Waldherr has just come out with two accompanying card decks. Read the rest of this entry »
How to make an iPhone app
Ever wonder how the more-than-50,000 iPhone apps in Apple’s App Store get from the drawing board to your screen? For one of them, the brand new Goddess Tarot app, the road was through Flatbush-based author and artist Kris Waldherr. The gilded app is the newest manifestation of Waldherr’s illustrated brand, and her first foray into the world of hand-held software design. Because apps are, well, the thing to do these days, we asked Waldherr to tell us how she went from idea to execution to approval on the digital celestial reader she’s marketing as “The most beautiful app in the App Store.” Read the rest of this entry »
