Dear Creative Coders,
I'm sending you a second post today. Unfortunately, Vera Molnar passed away on December 7 at the age of 99. She was a pioneer of computer art and I have often used her story to explain what I mean by creative coding.
2023-12-08 15:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Dear Creative Coders, 👋
I hope you are doing good! A few weeks ago I was in Copenhagen to give a talk at Processing Community Day 2023 in Copenhagen and it was such a blast! I met so many of interesting people and had dozens of insightful discussions. 💙 Now I took some time to write an article about the event, just to recall the whole thing and keep memories fresh.
2023-12-08 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostHey Creative Coders, 🙌
I hope you are all well! Today I would like to give you an insight into my work on the curriculum. I am currently developing two courses in parallel, both related to randomness.
Random Compositions You may have seen my post from last week in which I dealt with an assignment that I call "Random Compositions". I recently challenged my Master's students at Elisava in Barcelona with this task and the results were absolutely a...
2023-12-01 15:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Creative Coders, 👋
One of the most exciting and maybe even unsettling discoveries in the learning process of Creative Coding in Graphic Design is randomness. It allows you to let the computer make its own, unpredictable decisions. Here two worlds collide, because from a traditional design perspective we are used to have almost full control over the things we create. Randomness can make you feel a bit unsett...
2023-11-24 19:07:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there! ☀️
I am back from Processing Community Day Copenhagen, it was simply an amazing event, really. I have met so many interesting people, had so many great conversations. When I landed in Barcelona on sunday I just realized how much input i took home from there. It was simply a beautiful experience. Now I am looking forward for the coming weekend when I will conduct the workshop with Martin I announced earlier this week. Yep, it’s quite a lot, I definitivel...
2023-11-17 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostDear Creative Coders,
as you probably know me and Martin Lorenz, the author of the book "Flexible Visual Systems", are good friends. In the last years we were talking a lot about how we could bring our teachings about Creative Coding and Flexible System Design together. We had tons of ideas and now one of them is finally becoming real. We are going to give a workshop on the 18./19.11.2023 at PAU in Barcelona. I know, it is a very short notice, but maybe you are around a...
2023-11-14 21:42:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Creative Coders, 🙌
I hope you are doing good! This week I have a special conversation to share with you: Andreas Gysin is one of the big names in the creative coding scene, known for his beautiful ascii artworks, his physical installations and his enormous success during the NFT boom a few years ago. I was intrigued to learn about his origins and what drives him today. You can find out all this and more in the video.
What are your thoughts? Do you have any q...
2023-11-10 15:19:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Creative Coders! 🙌
I hope you are doing well! Today I'm getting back to you with a curriculum update:
Hey Creative Coders! 🙌
This Thursday from 5pm CET I'll be online in the #meetups channel on Discord on for an "Ask me anything" session. Feel free to drop by, with or without questions, and even with ideas and suggestions. Looking forward to it!
Greetings from Barcelona, ☀️
Tim
2023-10-23 14:50:36 +0000 UTC View Post
I hope you are doing well! It's time for another episode of my monthly "Mastering the Learning Process" series, in which I will share some ideas about the power of showing your work and to "learn in public". I always wanted to try to do something with audio only since I am listening to audiobooks and podcasts myself all day. So here we go, this is my first podcast-episode :-D
When I made the decision to le...
2023-10-20 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This week I would like to share with you a new Conversation that I am very proud of. Tomáš Kostrzeva is from Bratislava, Slovakia. He is a graphic designer and has been an active Patreon member of mine for a very long time. Besides very exciting experiments with color and gradients that he shares on Instagram, he most recently used his creative coding skills in the visual identity for TED...
2023-10-13 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Creative Coders, ☀️
I hope you are doing good!
Finally the time has come and I can share a new course with you. In "Generative Sculptures" you will learn step by step how to transform any image file into a three-dimensional structure. The system I explain in detail here I've already used in projects for clients like IBM and Netflix. It's visually very interesting because it gives conc...
2023-10-06 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Creative Coders! ✌️
I hope you a re doing good!
Today I send you sunny greetings from beautiful Barcelona and also a great forecast, because next week I will post a new course! Stay tuned!
In two two weeks my seminar "Programming Posters" for master students of Elisava will start. For this I have prepared a lot and thought a long time about which subject could fit well. In the end, I decided to reinterpret the project of my very first teaching ...
2023-09-29 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostDear Creative Coders, ✌️
hope you had a good start into the week!
I just wanted to announce that there will be an open meetup on Discord this week on Friday at 5pm (CET). Feel free to join. I would be happy to see you there!
Many greetings from Barcelona,
Tim
2023-09-18 14:21:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Do you struggle keeping track in the learning process in Creative Coding? You can relax, because it's basically the same for almost everyone. Learning programming is hard and challenges you on many levels. But there are some very useful tools that can help you overcome the obstacles. That's what this lecture is about.
I would love to get some feedback from you: What are your personal experiences? Is there anything you would like to add? How do you like this new content format? Feel free...
2023-09-15 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello dear Creative Coders, ✌️
I am infinitely grateful that through my work on my platform and curriculum, I get to meet so many great people who are just as passionate about Creative Coding as I am. One special person is Lena Weber, with whom I am in close contact. A few months ago I shared a conversation with her on my website, which was mainly about her master thesis. A few weeks ago, I spoke with her again via Instagram Live after she completed her Master's and is now looking a...
2023-09-08 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey Creative Coders! ✌️
In this first Curriculum Update, I'll show you the changes I've made over the past few weeks. Here's the overview:
Hey Creative Coders, ✌️
I hope you are all well! I'm reporting back from my vacation with some great news:
It's official now: I'm living in Barcelona! Everything is set up now, I'm already sitting at my new workspace and writing this text in a beautiful coworking space, the Glashaus in the "Poblenou" district. I am absolutely happy with my decision and totally lo...
2023-09-01 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi folks, 👋🏼
I want to update you this week with a personal message. Next week I am about to make my move to Barcelona. I will be landing at the airport in the Catalonian city on Tuesday at noon with my two suitcases plus hand luggage to start my new life there. And I can tell you that I am really looking forward to it. The last few weeks...
2023-08-11 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello folks,
I hope you are doing good! ☀️
Final countdown, 10 days left in Germany, next time, when I record the last episode of the first seasson of my livestream-series trustTheProcess(), I will already live in Barcelona. I am literally living out of a suitcase since weeks and I am very much looking forward to the next months. I also took another teaching assignment for the renowned design school Elisava in October and November. So yeah, I’m ready t...
2023-08-04 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi folks! ✌️
I hope you are doing well! A few weeks ago I had the honor to meet Raphaël de Courville in person at the audivisual jam at MotionLab in Berlin. Many of you might be familiar with him, as he has built a great community for Creative Coding. On Sundays he can usually be found streaming on Twitch, he authored more than 100 Creative Coding newsletters, he founded the Creative Coding Stammtisch Berlin and now he works for the Processing Foundation as communi...
2023-07-28 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks! ✌️
Today I share the edit of the third episode of my trustTheProcess() livestreams with you. In it I rebuilt my "ASCII Blobs" visual in p5.js. In between I struggled getting the system running, but that's the idea of this livestream format. In it I want to show you that in tricky situations you can always reach your goal with calmness, patience and creativity, even if something changes slightly in between. This became especially clear here, because I had ...
2023-07-21 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostHello dear people,☀️
i hope ypu are doing good!
Wow, there's a lot happening behind the scenes again, you can look forward to a lot of cool new content.
Actually I wanted to share the edited version of last week's livestream with you today, but unfortunately the editing didn't work out in time, so I'll make up for it next week.
Next Thursday is already time for the next livestream (see the calendar). Do you have an idea for a topic? Then just post ...
2023-07-14 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi folks!
Today I want to share with you the properly edited recording of the last livestream, in which I built a three-dimensional timeline with Processing. Olinga again did the editing, which is helping me a lot!
I also created a related blogpost about it again.
Many greets and enjoy your w...
2023-07-07 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHello dear people,✌️
I hope you are all well! I just wanted to give you a quick announcement that I'm starting another livestream tomorrow. This time I'll be working with p5.js and taking a look at how the anime.js animation library can be integrated there.
I'm really looking forward to it!
2023-07-05 08:03:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks, ☀️
I send you my best regards from Barcelona! I am currently looking for an apartment and I may have found it today. Hope I get the apartment in Born, very close to the Arc de Triomphe. Keep your fingers crossed for me!
New Stream online: Random Composition 📼
In case you missed my livestream from two weeks ago, you can now find a clean edited version on the blog. There is now a new category called Streams where y...
2023-06-30 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello folks, ✌️
I hope you are well! Today (Wednesday) I will spontaneously go to Berlin to meet some of you in real life. I'll stay until Sunday and then I'll fly to Barcelona to look for an apartment. Between mid August and early September I will then move completely to Spain. So exciting! Things might be a bit hoplish here on the Patreon channel until i have everything sorted.
Thanks for your feedback! 🙏
In the last few ...
2023-06-21 07:44:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there, ✌️
I hope you are well! Here the summer has fully arrived and enjoy the last weeks in Paderborn. Already at the beginning/mid of August I will leave for Barcelona and move my center of life to this beautiful city. The preparations are in full swing and I'm in the process of becoming a hardcore minimalist. It feels great to get rid of old stuff.
A lot has happened this week:
New work for the New York Times 🗽...
2023-06-16 15:42:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
here is a short addition to the post from yesterday: next Thursday (June 15th) at 4:00pm (CET) I will start a livestream-series! In it I will solve a few exercises of the Bauhaus Coding Workshop to completely update the course. It just needs a new, more colorful touch. The live chat will be open, so we can do this together!
I am looking forward to seeing you.
Dear Patron,
finally! 💪 I managed to finish the two most important lessons for my Gradation course. It took me no less than 2 months and I started from scratch several times. Now the base is ready and I'm very happy and excited to learn what you think of it: As always, I am totally happy about your comments!✌️
I have also attached the code here. And here are the direct links to the lessons: