Savage Interactive
Australian software company founded in Hobart, Tasmania, in 2010 by James Cuda and his wife Alanna. It makes Procreate, a painting and illustration app for iPad.
What influenced us
Companies
37signals
Software company founded in Chicago in 1999, makers of Basecamp and HEY. Ruby on Rails grew out of its work, and Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson wrote the books Rework and Remote.
ART+COM Studios
Design studio founded in Berlin in 1988 by artists, designers, scientists and programmers. In 1994 it presented TerraVision, an interactive globe of the whole Earth.
People
René Magritte
Belgian painter (1898 to 1967), one of the leading figures of Surrealism. He is known for painting everyday objects in unexpected settings.
Kazimir Malevich
Painter born in Kyiv in 1879, founder of Suprematism, an art of pure geometric forms. His White on White (1918), a tilted white square on a white ground, inspired our logo.
Paolo Sorrentino
Italian film director and screenwriter, born in Naples in 1970. His film The Great Beauty won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Charlie Munger
American investor and lawyer (1924 to 2023), vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway alongside Warren Buffett. He was known for teaching clear thinking through ideas drawn from many fields.
Books and ideas
Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters, Robert Beverly Hale
A 1964 book by a longtime anatomy teacher at the Art Students League of New York. It teaches drawing through works by Leonardo, Michelangelo, Rembrandt and other masters.
Less is more
A phrase made famous by the poet Robert Browning in 1855, in a poem about the painter Andrea del Sarto. The architect Mies van der Rohe made it a guiding idea of modern design.