Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0761169253, 0606368868 | 160 pages | PDF | 6,5 MB

You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with their artistic side.

When Mr. Kleon was asked to address college students in upstate New York, he shaped his speech around the ten things he wished someone had told him when he was starting out. The talk went viral, and its author dug deeper into his own ideas to create Steal Like an Artist, the book. The result is inspiring, hip, original, practical, and entertaining. And filled with new truths about creativity: Nothing is original, so embrace influence, collect ideas, and remix and re-imagine to discover your own path. Follow your interests wherever they take you. Stay smart, stay out of debt, and risk being boring—the creative you will need to make room to be wild and daring in your imagination.

Coursera - Creative, Serious and Playful Science of Android Apps [repost]

Coursera – Creative, Serious and Playful Science of Android Apps
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Genre: eLearning Video / Development, Mobile Apps, Android

In this course, you will learn the fundamental computer science principles that power today’s apps. You will also create your own Android app using Java and standard software development tools. This course is a novice-friendly and delightful introduction to computer science and to programming Android apps for smartphones and tablets. No prior programming knowledge is necessary. In this course you will have fun learning to create an app for modern Android devices, such as the Nexus tablet. You will use the programming tools that Android software developers use to build your own useful app during this course. Along the way, we will introduce fundamental computer science principles and programming ideas that power today’s smartphone and tablet apps.

We will also peek beyond the borders of Android programming to the world of computer science. Meet computer science undergraduates, see one of the first vacuum tube computers, the first transistor, and now-modern scientific research on the Blue Waters supercomputer—all at Illinois.

Android Developer Track: Weeks 1–5 (required for passing the course):

This portion of the course is intended to give you a slow and gentle introduction to the basics of Android application development such as downloading, installing, and setting up the tools you will use in this course. You will also create your first Android app and share the results of your experience with your classmates—all while writing hardly any code at all!

Computer Science and Programming Track: Weeks 6–8 (optional):

During this latter portion of the course, you can delve deeper into computer science fundamentals and beginner programming techniques. Together we will explore this content while developing another really cool project to share.

Course SyllabusThis course is composed of 2 tracks organized into 8 distinct weekly topics:Android Developer Track

Week 1: An App for Hello World

Week 2: A Simple App for ILLIAC

Week 3: A Working App for ILLIAC

Week 4: An App for Emily

Week 5: A Simple Web App and Debugging Code in 0g

Computer Science and Programming Track

Week 6: An App to Share My Views

Week 7: An App for Bitmaps and Images

Week 8: An App for Moving Pixels

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Tutsplus - Creative Lighting Effects in Adobe Photoshop [repost]

Tutsplus – Creative Lighting Effects in Adobe Photoshop

WEBRip | MP4 + Project files | English | 1280 x 720 | AVC ~1169 kbps | 25 fps
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Genre: eLearning Video / Photographing, Adobe Photoshop

In this course you will learn how to create powerful lighting effects using several techniques in Adobe Photoshop and Flame Painter. You will be creating a beauty product advertising campaign using several stock photos. The aim of this course is to help you to enhance your clients’ advertising campaigns or promotional material, and to teach you how lighting can play a huge role in your final designs.

Content:

1.Introduction1 lesson, 01:36

1.1Introduction 01:36

2.Setting Up the Document and Background3 lessons, 16:09

2.1Document Setup 04:15

2.2Background Settings 05:52

2.3Foreground Grass 06:02

3.Constructing the Island7 lessons, 1:00:20

3.1Building the Island 08:48

3.2Island Mist 08:21

3.3The First Waterfall 05:26

3.4The Second Waterfall 13:55

3.5Importing the Perfume Bottle 07:46

3.6Glow Effect 07:37

3.7Perfume Scent 08:27

4.Adding Light, Color, and Depth5 lessons, 44:24

4.1Light Trails 07:58

4.2Butterflies 09:21

4.3Vector Birds 10:08

4.4Tone Adjustments 11:09

4.5The Brand 05:48

5.Conclusion1 lesson, 00:28

5.1Conclusion 00:28

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Creative Image - May - June 2016

Creative Image – May – June 2016
English | 104 Pages | True PDF | 11 Mb

Mark Stephen Smith - The Art of Flash Animation: Creative Cartooning [Repost]

Mark Stephen Smith – The Art of Flash Animation: Creative Cartooning
2007 | ISBN: 1598220268 | English | 480 pages | PDF | 22 MB

Part animation guide, part Flash manual, The Art of Flash Animation: Creative Cartooning provides a practical primer on classic, hand-drawn 2D screen animation as well as an introduction to using Flash for creating your own cartoons…

Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World"s Most Creative Minds

Christopher Zara, Robbie Lee, “Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World’s Most Creative Minds”
2012 | EPUB | 272 pages | ISBN: 1440530033 | English | 1.64 MB

Great art comes from great pain.

Or that’s the impression left by the haunting profiles in Tortured Artists, which examines the maladies that drive creative types to the brink of despair and the inspired works that are born from their anguish.

The book comprises illuminating profiles of forty-eight celebrated figures from literature, music, drama, and visual art. The artists are a carefully chosen mix of pioneers and mavericks whose creative contributions have forever changed their respective mediums – everyone from Charles Schulz to Charlie Parker, Michelangelo to Madonna, Andy Warhol to Amy Winehouse. Each profile in Tortured Artists has a specific goal: to show how pain and suffering inspired the subject’s art, thereby revealing the common thread that binds artistic expression of every conceivable type.

As much an appreciation of artistic genius as an accessible study of the artistic psyche, Tortured Artists illustrates the surprising extent to which inner and outer turmoil fuel the creative process.

Inspiralized: Turn Vegetables Into Healthy, Creative, Satisfying Meals (Repost)

Inspiralized: Turn Vegetables Into Healthy, Creative, Satisfying Meals By Ali Maffucci
2015 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0804186839 | EPUB | 21 MB

The definitive cookbook for using a spiralizer: the kitchen gadget that turns vegetables and fruits into imaginative, low-carb dishes.

On her wildly popular blog, Inspiralized, Ali Maffucci is revolutionizing healthy eating. Whether you’re low-carb, gluten-free, Paleo, or raw, you don’t have to give up the foods you love. Inspiralized shows you how to transform more than 20 vegetables and fruits into delicious meals that look and taste just like your favorite indulgent originals. Zucchini turns into pesto spaghetti; jicama becomes shoestring fries; sweet potatoes lay the foundation for fried rice; plantains transform into “tortillas” for huevos rancheros.

Ali’s recipes for breakfast, snacks, appetizers, sandwiches, soups, salads, casseroles, rices, pastas, and even desserts are easy to follow, hard to mess up, healthful, and completely fresh and flavorful. Best of all, she tells you how to customize them for whatever vegetables you have on hand and whatever your personal goal may be—losing weight, following a healthier lifestyle, or simply making easy meals at home.

Here, too, are tons of technical tips and tricks; nutritional information for each dish and every vegetable you can possibly spiralize; and advice for spiralizing whether you’re feeding just yourself, your family, or even a crowd. So bring on a hearty appetite and a sense of adventure—you’re ready to make the most of this secret weapon for healthy cooking.

Creative Light - Issue 13, 2016

Creative Light – Issue 13, 2016
English | PDF | 72 Pages | 12.40 Mb

Homepage: photoguild.co.uk

Craft, Inc. Revised Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Turning Your Creative Hobby into a Successful Business

Meg Mateo Ilasco, “Craft, Inc. Revised Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Turning Your Creative Hobby into a Successful Business”
2011 | EPUB | 192 pages | ISBN: 1452101418 | English | 2.49 MB

The growing legions of crafters looking to turn their hobby into a profession can rely on the tried and true advice in Craft, Inc. In this completely revised edition of the definitive crafter’s business book, entrepreneur Meg Mateo Ilasco offers expanded and authoritative guidance on everything from developing products and sourcing materials to writing a business plan and paying taxes. With all-new sections on opening an online shop, using social media strategically, and more along with updated interviews from such craft luminaries as Jonathan Adler and Jill Bliss this comprehensive primer features the most current information on starting and running a successful creative business.

3D Printing Creative - Maggio 2016

3D Printing Creative – Maggio 2016
Italian | 91 pages | Scan PDF | 37 MB

Maison Créative - Full Year 2015 Collection

Maison Créative – Full Year 2015 Collection
French | 6 issues | True PDF | 136.91 MB