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Intimidating project? Make a prototype!
How to set up your art-world-domination command center
How to set up your art-world-domination command center
How I decided to write the things I’d enjoy reading
Hiding ideas in plain sight
A series of drawings I did by chance
Do you hide your unfinished work?
An idea is not the thing.
Art that helps you feel less overwhelmed
I like art with dogs in it.
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Use the "back to school" feeling for a creative project.
Use the "back to school" feeling for a creative project.
It always takes more
Practice drawing to practice thinking
Practice drawing to practice thinking
Is “practical” art OK?
Is “practical” art OK?
What’s the difference between kinda-good and really-good art?
Reading about Creativity from the inside out
The tools that let you get dirty and mess up
The tools that let you get dirty and mess up
One year of D/A/P!
Let your work marinade
Let your work marinade
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When is it OK to use art?
Learn about color by painting
When should I buy art?
Sketch your bookshelf
Sketch your bookshelf
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Sheila Hicks: Weaving as Metaphor
A Reading Sabbatical
IK Blue
IK Blue
Why you should still bother with analog art
Why you should still bother with analog art
Design workflow for handmade cards
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Client communications
Clothes
Clothes
Failure
Failure
How to keep trying
Abstract Sketches for UI Design
Black Mountain College and Design Education
Black Mountain College and Design Education
Kandinsky & three kinds of Inner Necessity
Looking at trends
Looking at trends
Should I wait to be inspired?
Should I wait to be inspired?
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Sign Painting & what a Designer should Learn from a Craftsman
Word & Image: Maira Kalman
Word & Image: Chip Kidd
Artist Open Studios, and presenting yourself.
Painterly quality and the snapshot aesthetic
Series and Multiples
The Interaction of Color
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Ellsworth Kelly and balanced complexity
Matisse, Minimalism, and repetition
Matisse, Minimalism, and repetition
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Try mark-making to increase your attention to defaults
Try mark-making to increase your attention to defaults
Stuck on a project? Get unstuck at a museum!
Stuck on a project? Get unstuck at a museum!
Diagilev’s Ballets Russes, Magic and Design
Diagilev’s Ballets Russes, Magic and Design
Stealing colors from a printed book
Jackson Pollock + step and repeat process
Jackson Pollock + step and repeat process
Nick Cave’s Soundsuits and working across media
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Toulouse-Lautrec and escaping designed spaces
Stealing patterns from Matisse
My analog design tools
My analog design tools