Welcome dear visitor to Paultopia! My name is Paul Blumstein - founder, owner, creative genius, and janitor of Paultopia Design Works.
I'm an illustrator, graphic designer, photoshop retoucher, and digital artist
with over 30 years of experience.
I started my career creating everything by hand - using real paints, and brushes, and pencils. additionally, I used pre-computerzoic technology, an airbrush!
But technology has taken hold, so today
I create most of my commercial work on the computer, and have expert skills using Adobe's illustrator, Photoshop, Animate,
and InDesign programs.
I've produced illustrations, graphic design materials, and photo retouch work for some of America's best, and least known companies including:
Pocket Books, Random House, IBM, Fidelity Investments, Coca-Cola, The Weekly Reader for Kids, NASA, Warner Bros., and The Culinary Institute of America.
The computer has had a revolutionary effect on the creative community. Today, artists, designers, and photographers have much more latitude - so many more tools with which to create. At times you can get so excited that you can easily lose your focus and end up needlessly, or inappropriately using these tools because "they're there." I've seen this done on more than a few occasions.
The challenge is to be able to co-ordinate it all -
make all that technology stuff work together to create a unified image or product. Like a conductor with an orchestra, if you can't get all those musicians work in unison you'll have a mess on your hands.
So, until Ai technology rules the world, which no doubt will happen, human talent and creativity will remain the gold standard for producing awesome imagery.