{"id":8700,"date":"2011-12-08T06:24:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T06:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=8700"},"modified":"2025-11-26T14:45:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:45:59","slug":"kory-fluckigers-copper-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/kory-fluckigers-copper-pi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kory Fluckiger\u2019s Copper Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heather Fluckiger reads Kundersanterbleebin to her daughter Roma<\/p><\/div>\n

There was a time, Kory Fluckiger says, when his watercolors would sell even before he took them off their board. He would photograph them, email the image to his client list, and have a committed buyer before he had bothered to take the tape off. For an artist with no formal watercolor training, he was quickly establishing a strong reputation: in addition to selling well, his work was winning awards and appearing on magazine covers.<\/p>\n

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Kory Fluckiger<\/p><\/div>\n

Then, in 2008, he and his wife Heather signed up to work for the Peace Corps. They spent two years teaching health education in rural Nicaragua. By the time they came back, the economy had tanked, and Fluckiger found the fine art market had dried up. That change pushed Fluckiger to reinvent himself, so he decided to marry his longtime passion — writing and illustrating children’s books — with the developing app market.<\/p>\n

When the Fluckigers had left for Nicaragua, the iPhone was brand new, and costly. When they came back, the iPhone was in its third generation and the iPad was the new groundbreaking technology. Developing an app for it was cost prohibitive, though, so Fluckiger bided his time doing freelance illustration work. Then, when the time was right, he joined his uncle, also an artist, and two programmers, to form\u00a0Copper Pi<\/a>, an app development company.<\/p>\n

Fluckiger began experimentng with the app industry by creating a few music apps, then this fall Copper Pi released their first children’s book for the iPad. Featuring art by Fluckiger and a story by Bret Hickenlooper,\u00a0Kundersanterbleebin<\/em>\u00a0tells the story of Santa and his elves working to restore one little boy to belief.<\/p>\n