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I've released my course "Vera Molnar Reconstructed" in occasion of the death of the artist

I've released my course "Vera Molnar Reconstructed" in occasion of the death of the artist

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 2023-12-08 15:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post

A reflecction on Processing Community Day Copenhagen 2023

A reflecction on Processing Community Day Copenhagen 2023

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 t...

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Curriculum Update December 2023

Hey 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 ...

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Random Compositions 🎲

Random Compositions 🎲

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 fr...

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What Creative Coding can teach you beyond crafting visuals

What Creative Coding can teach you beyond crafting visuals

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 loo...

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Special Announcement!

Dear 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 b...

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Exclusive preview: A Conversation with Andreas Gysin 🔥

Exclusive preview: A Conversation with Andreas Gysin 🔥

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 ...

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Curriculum Update November 2023

Curriculum Update November 2023

Hi Creative Coders! 🙌

I hope you are doing well! Today I'm getting back to you with a curriculum update:

This Thursday: Join my "ask me anything" session at 5pm CET on Discord

This Thursday: Join my "ask me anything" session at 5pm CET on Discord

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! View Post

Mastering the Learning Process 💪: show your work!

Mastering the Learning Process 💪: show your work!


Hey Creative Coders, ☀️

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 an...

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Creative Coding Inspiration: A conversation wit Tomáš Kostrzeva

Creative Coding Inspiration: A conversation wit Tomáš Kostrzeva

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 2023-10-13 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Curriculum Update: ✨ New course: “Generative Sculptures”

Curriculum Update: ✨ New course: “Generative Sculptures”

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 clie...

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New course out next week / Programming Posters 2023 / Mockup Generator ✨

New course out next week / Programming Posters 2023 / Mockup Generator ✨

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 ...

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Invitation: A casual meetup on Discord, this Friday at 5 pm (CET) ☀️

Dear 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

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Three tools that can help you to master your learning process

Three tools that can help you to master your learning process

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 s...

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Creative Coding Inspiration: A conversation with Lena Weber 🤖

Creative Coding Inspiration: A conversation with Lena Weber 🤖

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, whic...

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✅ Curriculum Update - 9/2023

Hey 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:

  • I renamed the "Courses" menu item to "Curriculum". In the video, I explain the thoughts behind it.
  • I added a new course, which is meant as a general introductio...

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It's done: I moved to Spain! 🥳 / my new improved patreon communication schedule 🗓️


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 2023-09-01 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post

A personal note ☀️

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 ...

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trustTheProcess(4) - Data Stream

trustTheProcess(4) - Data Stream

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 forw...

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A conversation with Raphaël de Courville

A conversation with Raphaël de Courville

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...

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trustTheProcess(3) - ASCII Blobs

trustTheProcess(3) - ASCII Blobs

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 re...

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Coming soon: trustTheProcess(3) + a Conversation with Raphaël de Courville

Hello 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...

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New recording: 📼 trustTheProcess() – Building a threedimensional timeline with Processing

New recording: 📼 trustTheProcess() – Building a threedimensional timeline with Processing

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!

2023-07-07 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Next livestream tomorrow at 6pm CET

Hello 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 re...

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New Stream online / trcc Google Calendar / various updates

New Stream online / trcc Google Calendar / various updates

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 cas...

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Livestream tomorrow! 🎥

Livestream tomorrow! 🎥

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 hopli...

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Course dev update: Lost in Gradation 🤷‍♂️

Course dev update: Lost in Gradation 🤷‍♂️

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...

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One more thing: Livestream next week!

One more thing: Livestream next week!

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 ...

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Course preview: Gradation

Course preview: Gradation

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!✌️...

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