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A new course is coming soon: "Generative Collages" 🔥
Hey there,I hope you are doing great! I have some good news: The main lessons for my upcoming course "Generative Collages" are completely recorded and I've now set a release date: February 21st. I still have to write a few texts, translate some code, record the introduction and create the course teaser video. But the main content is done! ✅The whole online course is already in the planning since quite some time. You can find an early prototype here:https://timrodenbroeker.de/collages/But since then, I simply did not manage to expl...
My talk at Demo Festival 2025 🎥
Hi Creative Coders! 👋Maybe you remember that I am working as one of the curators at the Demo Festival. Yesterday the main event happened in Amsterdam and I've had the honor to give a talk there, just like last year.It's a tradition that we, as curators, also develop motion graphics and submit them to the festival. In my talk I've reflected on my own process and explored the seemingly unusual idea of translating an ancient philosophical thought into a piece of motion design. This challenge has led me down some very interesting pat...
Exclusive Tutorial: Text as Data Input 🔥
Hi Creative Coders,👋I hope you are doing good! I’ve been continuing to look at how you can work with texts as a data input. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to import an external text file into your Processing sketch and build a slidedeck that displays it sentence by sentence on one slide at a time.I hope you enjoy the tutorial. As always, I am happy to hear your thoughts in the comments!Warm greets,Tim
Exclusive Tutorial: A Cloud of Words ☁️
Hey you, ✌️I hope you're doing well!This session was totally spontaneous and came to me more than I was looking for something to do. I originally intended to develop a visual system that would create a collage of words based on a short text. I was thinking of something like "concrete poetry" or David Carson's typographic collages. I then went one step further and brought the whole thing into the three-dimensional. In doing so, I broke my strict paradigm of not programming in an object-orientated way. I think it's time to...
A Thank You to my Patrons! And a Note about Social Media
Hi folks,I would like to address you directly today to talk about an important topic that is making me concerned at the moment: ‘Social Media’.With timrodenbroeker.deI’ve always had the goal of developing a learning platform for digital empowerment. In addition to my courses and tutorials for creative coding, I’ve recently endeavoured to shed light on topics related to philosophy in order to take a more conscious and intelligent look at what some call the ‘infosphere’, of which social media has become a very large part. With my cour...
Exclusive Tutorial: Split Flap Typography ⚙️
Hey there, 👋how is it going?Split flap displays, like the ones you used to see at airport terminals and train stations, have attracted me since I was a child. I resonate with the motion of these weird machines, when the information is put together letter by letter or number by number or word by word to form something readable. This tutorial is actually more like a live coding session in which I slowly get my head around the mechanical logic of the split flap display. I had already cracked the puzzle in 2016 and used it to build what I think ...
Luna Maurer (Studio Moniker) on Designing Friction 🔥
Hi you!☀️I hope you are doing well! Two weeks ago, I was at the Iterations conference in s’Hertogenbosch (Netherlands) and there she was: Luna Maurer! I’ve known Luna’s work for many years, together with Roel Wouters and Jonathan Puckey she co-founded the famous Studio Moniker, which pushed and explored the boundaries of web technologies. After the studio was dissolved, she is now going her own way as a performance and media artist. On the conference I’ve had the pleasure to see her performance “Emoticons don’t have wrinkles”,...
December 2024 updates 🔍
Hey you, ☀️I hope you are doing great! There was a lot happening on my end in the last weeks and I want update you with this newsletter. Visiting ITERATIONS 2024 🔥Last weekend I've visited the ITERATIONSCreative Coding Symposium to see the talks, meet old friends and new people. It was amazing and I've got very inspired. Everything went super smoothly and was so well organized (a massive shoutout to Fabian and the volunteers of Creative Coding Utrecht.The lineup was fantastic, I loved how Vera van de Seyp selected the speakers. ...
Life Updates + Vera Molnar Reconstructed (livestream recordings) ☀️
Dear Friends, 👋I am back from my radio silence, with new energy and many new ideas. I've settled down in Paderborn, my hometown again, after two exciting years in Barcelona, Spain. And I finally have a small video studio again, where I can record new content whenever I want . This week I want to share the recordings of a series of livestreams with you: In "Vera Molnar Reconstructed", I've rebuilt a few of the works of Vera Molnar, inspired by the powerful methodology "Deconstruct / Reconstruct" formulated by Stig Møl...
Next stop - Type Transformations
Hey you,☀️I hope you are doing good! First of all I want to thank you for participating in the poll last week. This helped me quite a lot. The result: There is one clear favorite that I will now focus on: Type Transformations. Honestly, when I came up with the name for that course, I didn't really know what it excactly should contain, but within the last week it became clearer to me. The foundation for this course could be a tutorial I created about five years ago titled "Kinetic Typography". Let's see where this goes!In the...
Share your Opinion: Which Course Should I Create Next?
Hi you!😊I would love to receive your input on which course I should develop/finalize next. I would be delighted if you would take a few moments to leave me your thoughts here. Please note: The list is totally unsorted, so my own preferences are hidden. :-)As always, feel free to leave questions and suggestions in the comments.Thank you for contributing!I wish you a great weekend / week. ⛅Tim
My brand new course "Building Tools" is live! 🥳
Hey everyone!I am really excited to announce that I've finally released my brand new course Building Toolstoday! I just added all the texts and did some fine tuning and now: it's ready. 🎉I want to invite you to send corrections and ideas in the comments of this post. If you want to send an e-mail, that's also great: feedback@timrodenbroeker.deThank you so much and have fun with "Building Tools"! 💪https://timrodenbroeker.de/courses/tools/Warm greets,Tim
Building Tools - New Course Teaser
Hey everyone, 👋 I just finished the teaser video of the upcoming course "Building Tools". What do you think about it? Let me know!Warm greets, ☀️ Tim
The "Tim Rodenbröker Monthly Newsletter" is my new Content Hub
Hey there! 👋Here's a quick update, because I want to inform you about a simple change: In the future, I'll send updates about the community, interviews, meta-topics, like conversationsand essaysmainly through my newsletter. My Patreon on the other hand will be more focused on the exclusive content, like courses and tutorials.Subscribe today to stay up to date. It's free! 💪http://eepurl.com/gnNM59Have a great day! ☀️Tim
Michelle Duong on her Adventures in Creative Coding and Interactive Typography
Hey everyone!👋There is a new conversation online: I had the pleasure to do an interview with German graphic designer Michelle Duong about her adventures in Creative Coding and Interactive Typography. I really love her work and I think you'll like it too.https://timrodenbroeker.de/michelle-duong/Any thoughts on this? Feel free to share them here. Sending warm greets!Tim
Two new lessons for the upcoming course on building tools with p5.js ✅
Hi everyone,I hope you are all going good! ☀️I've finished two more lessons for the upcoming course on building Design tools with p5.js. First I explain how to upload files (like images) with the html-file-input element. It's really powerful. Also I show you how to create groups of UI elements that you can open and collapse. This is especially handy for more complex user interfaces. You'll find the code and the videos attached to this post. If you have any comments, please let me know! Have a great week, 👋Tim
courses/tools -> The finish line is in sight! 💪 🏁
Hi friends, 👋I am still a little bit hesitant of saying “I am almost done with the tools course”, but let’s put it that way: I am approaching the finish line. Most lessons have been recorded, now I have to add a few texts, develop a teaser video, write an introduction and then I should be finished. Yay! I am really excited about this one. Attached you can download two lessons on styling I have recorded for the course in the last days. Please check the videos and let me know how you like them. I had the impression that the sound is a bi...
Exclusive preview - A conversation with Daniel Shiffman! 👀 💥
Hey folks,✌️Could anyone of you imagine a world without Daniel? I absolutely can't and my career would have been a different one if this one highly sympathic and ingenious man wouldn't have cultivated Creative Coding for such a long time. Without him, Creative Coding would be different, Processing and p5.js would not be as accessible. His achievements are simply impressive and so is his impact. On his channel The Coding Train,Daniel reaches millions of people. Now the completely overhauled version of his influential book "The Na...
Build your own Tools (with p5.js) - Application Layout 🛠️
Hey everyone, 👋I hope you are doing good! I am making progress in recording the lessons for the upcoming course on building design tools with p5.js. After I've explained most of the user interface elements (like text inputs, range sliders, buttons etc) I've recorded a longer lesson about creating the application layout with HTML and CSS. Looking forward to hear your feedback, if you have some! Sending warm greets from sunny Barcelona, 🌞Tim
A personal video message with a few updates
Hi there! 👋 🌏I hope you are doing good! I wanted to update you on the status of the development of new courses, about my work for the DEMO Festival, about my move (back) to Germany and about my refined trajectory. Any comments? As always, I am happy to hear from you!Warm greets, ☀️Tim
Case Study: DEMO 2025 – My Submissions
Hey you! 👋This week I want to share a new case study with you in which I reflect on the ideas for my submissions for DEMO Festival 2025. (I am also a part of the curational team)Limitations have always been playing a major role in my creative work; I was only able to develop my best ideas because I radically fenced myself in creatively. At first glance, this seems unreasonable – after all, we live in times of unlimited possibilities. But exactly where the tools bombard us with features, the creative brain switches off, struggles against th...
Building tools: The first three lessons for review! 👀
Hi everyone, 👋I hope you are doing good! I am making progress with the course on buidling design tools and today I want to share the first three lessons with you,.The latest live coding sessions (shared here on Patreon) really helped me to understand the way I want to explain things.I wonder if you’ve watched these sessions. Did you like them?I’ve made a playlist, you you don’t have to go to Patreon to watch the recordings.https://timrodenbroeker.de/building-tools-with-p5-js-playlist/Sending warm greets and wishing you a nice weekend! ...
Two new conversations: Hannah Gmeiner and Tameem Sankari
Dear Creative Coders, ✌️in the last few months I have interviewed many exciting personalities from the Creative Coding scene and all of them have really interesting focal points. Today I would like to introduce you to two of them who couldn't work more differently: Tameem Sankari and Hannah Gmeiner.Tameem was born in Dubai and lives in Copenhagen since several years, where he works as a Designer, Creative Coder and illustrator for large media companies, combining Processing, Blender and Adobe CC. He applies his unique dynamic visual lan...
Building a Tool – Episode 4 – Coding Systems Workshop Announcements
Hi Creative Coders, ✌️today I want to share another recording of a live coding session of my tool building series with you! This time I‘ve’ built a tool prototype for the workshop announcements of Coding Systems. Coding Systems, that’s me and my friend Martin Lorenz, who you might know from his famous book “Flexible Visual Systems”. Together we’re planning to give more online-workshops and to build a range of tools for our online communication.Here’s a live demo of the result: https://cs-workshop-announcements.vercel.app/I hop...
Building a Tool - Episode 3 - Refactoring the Code 🛠️
Hey Creative Coders, ✌️I hope you are doing great! I am following the streak of building a design tool with p5.js and in this third episode I took some time to structure the code to make it more understandable, for me and for you. This is an essential task in programming called "refactoring". It means that you rethink what you wrote and clean it up.Have fun with this video and let me know what you think!Many greets! ☀️Tim
Exclusive: How to build a design tool with p5.js?
Hi Creative Coders!👋I hope you are doing great! I am super excited for this very first so-called "Drop", a new feature by Patreon. Drops are quite similar like YouTube premieres, but exclusive for Patrons. You can follow along and comment. I have no idea how this goes, this feature is totally new to me, but let’s see, I think it can help you to connect with other learners from the trcccommunity.What's in it?In this one hour of live coding, l start with the template that I've created in session 1 a few weeks ago and extend i...
Submit your work to the DEMO Festival 2025!
Hey Creative Coders,I hope you are doing great! This week I’ll take a short pause from the tools-theme and make you aware that the open call of the DEMO Festival is now live and you can submit your work until the end of August!https://demofestival.com/submit’I’ll be one of the curators and we’ll skim through all the thousands of submissions to find the very best pieces. Of course I’ll have my eye on works from the Creative Coding scene.Honestly, I expect a lot of pointless AI- and High-Tech visuals, cold and empty and solely driven by...
Exclusive Tutorial: Build a simple GUI for your Processing sketch with ControlP5 🛠️
Hey Creative Coders, 👋here comes another exploration from the realms of custom design tools. This time I've experimented with a special and very popular library for Processing called controlP5, to build a few basic User Interface elements. It's very powerful and has many UI elements in it's repertoire. I've seen people building crazy applications with it. Just check out this case study of Kevin Koch's final design project. But there is a little drawback: The library did not get any updates since eight years. That's a ...
Exclusive! A long conversation with Kiel Danger Mutschelknaus on Coding Design Tools 🔥
Hi Creative Coders, ✌️I am extremely hyped to share this great conversation with you! This week I’ve had the honor and pleasure to interview the amazing Kiel Danger Mutschelknaus. Since years he is known for building powerful and surprising design tools with p5.js and Processing for clients like Wired, The New York Times, IBM, The New Yorker Magazine and Adidas. In our conversation he shared insights into his workflow, we’ve discussed possible future roles of AI in Creative Coding, Open Source and much more.This is an uncut pre-release,...
Exclusive Tutorial: Let’s build a Tool! (session 01) 🛠️
Hi Creative Coders,I hope you are alll doing good! ✌️This week I want to share a first video tutorial with you. As you know, I am currently developing a course on building tools with p5.js and this video is some kind of an improvised sprint throught the whole topic. It is covering many different aspects of it. Most importantly: Implementing UI elements like sliders, buttons and text fields, and I binding their data to the sketch. It is not perfect and the whole video setup was super improvised, since I am traveling right now, but it helped ...
