The folks at American Craft Magazine ran an excerpt of Steal Like An Artist in their June/July 2012 issue. It’s quite the remix — unbeknownst to me, they cobbled together the excerpt from sever...
Buy it now→ My artist’s statement: When Broome Community College in upstate New York asked me to give a speech at their convocation, I sat down and wrote a list of 10 things I wish I’d heard wh...
I love, love, love signing books. I’m used to people saying, “I wish I could draw,” but there have been a surprising number of folks on this tour who remark on my handwriting. Sometimes people ...
Creativity and Curation: A Conversation About Finding and Sharing Inspiration Online New York City! Come see me and my friends at McNally Jackson on Wednesday, May 30th at 7PM: Join Austin Kleon (aut...
I’m on book tour promoting Steal Like An Artist. See all upcoming dates or follow me on Twitter→ Had a short, fun time in Minneapolis. Heard a bunch of great speakers, sold a bunch of books, and gave...
I’m on book tour promoting Steal Like An Artist. See all upcoming dates or follow me on Twitter→ Milwaukee: Everybody in Milwaukee told me that “I didn’t expect Milwaukee to be so cool” is a st...
I’m on book tour promoting Steal Like An Artist. See all upcoming dates or follow me on Twitter→ Portland: Love, love, loved the gloomy weather. Felt like the kind of weather you could actually get s...
Can’t see the video? Watch it here→ When I was in San Francisco, the folks at Google recorded a version of my Steal talk for their Authors at Google series. See more of my speaking gigs→
When I was in Kansas City, the folks at TEDxKC had me give a 10-minute version of my Steal talk at the Nelson Atkins Museum after the TEDxChange simulcast. Watch below. Can’t see the video? Wat...
Last week I had the new-to-me-and-slightly-surreal experience of being on three local TV shows — in Phoenix, they did something out of the ordinary: they asked me to draw! The producer found a room w...
I’ve spent the past three weeks on the Steal Across America tour — other than my iPhone, my sketchbook is the most important thing I carry. I use a large Moleskine sketchbook because it has hea...
I’m on book tour promoting Steal Like An Artist. See all upcoming dates→ Lexington, KY: grabbed some great Cajun on paper plates at Bourbon n’ Toulouse, stopped by Morris Book Shop and signed s...
de-Signs = iPhone photos of signs with some of the words erased. See more de-signs →
I’m on book tour promoting Steal Like An Artist. See all upcoming dates→ After a flight cancellation and some major delays, Columbus, OH was a whirlwind, but the event at the Ohio State Barnes ...
It’s official: Steal is a New York Times best selling book. Never thought this would be the way I would make the Gray Lady, but I’ll take it. Thank you so much to everyone who’s gra...
Had an incredible start to the #StealAcrossAmerica tour this last week. Monday, I flew to NYC, wandered around that night, wrote a sappy little piece about NYC in a diner, and had a few whiskeys at a...
Note: this is an edited version of a sappy talk I gave at the Columbia University bookstore last week. I know I’m probably supposed to read something from the book, but this is the very first s...
Something to look forward to: Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one’s will to live. The point of a book tour, basically, is t...
Polaroid via The Impossible Year At SXSW Saturday afternoon Kirby Ferguson and I showed clips from his video series Everything Is A Remix and then had a conversation about creativity, influence, and ...
If you dig these horoscopes, some from last year made their way into my new book, Steal Like An Artist. If you’re going to be at SXSW this year, be sure to check out my panel on Saturday with K...
I made 100 “micro-blackouts” for people who retweeted a link to Steal Like An Artist a few days ago. You can see them all on the Newspaper Blackout tumblr, or click one of the thumbnails below to bro...
Very happy to announce my new print, “Creativity is Subtraction,” on sale now from 20×200.com. Buy it! “Creativity is Subtraction” is actually the title of chapter ten of Steal Like An Artist. I...
My new book, Steal Like An Artist, is in bookstores today! You can also buy the paperback or ebook online: Amazon Barnes & Noble IndieBound Powell’s iBooks If you buy a copy before midnight...
Page from chapter 9 of Steal Like An Artist… * * * I’ve been nervous about this announcement, but here goes: today is my last day as a copywriter at Springbox. As of tomorrow, I will be w...
The giveaway is now closed! Congratulations to the ten winners: Sarah Bishop-Stone Kristen DiFate Sarah Elizabeth Dittmann Cassandra Ryan Sarah Zahorak Kapil Gupta Lee Oxley Jill Pritzker Victor Li Q...
I sort of hate book trailers, so I made a cute dog video disguised as a book trailer instead. Enjoy! PS. I’ve had several reports that Steal Like An Artist is starting to ship and make it to bo...
Sources: Mooney, Polchin, Bogart, Balanchine, Caine, Gorey, Allen, Jobs, Monteiro, Vonnegut, Updike, Garbus, Epstein, Faulkner, Sheridan, Billings, Gabriel, Kirby, Murphy, M...
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