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.
That orchestrated creativity stuff is where I come in. I know you're searching for talent - why else would you be here? But you're going to also want reliability. You don't stay in this business too long if you're not reliable - and I've been here for quite a while.
I've worked with a myriad of art directors, designers, publishers, business, and marketing department personal.
I come equipped with a wry sense of humor ( just ask the friends I've paid off to say so), which really comes in handy during a deadline crunch, an environment in which I'm completely comfortable.
With all that in mind, if you're searching for someone to make your project even more spectacular than you imagine - please just toss me an email and I'll be super happy to talk to you about your project.
Until then - Thanks for visiting Paultopia - a world of wonder!
Sincerely,
