The Steal Like an Artist Journal: A Notebook for Creative Kleptomaniacs

by Austin Kleon

Overview

From the New York Times bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work! comes an interactive journal and all-in-one logbook to get your creative juices flowing, and keep a record of your ideas and discoveries.

The Steal Like an Artist Journal is the next step in your artistic journey. It combines Austin Kleon’s unique and compelling ideas with the physical quality that makes journals like Moleskines so enormously popular. Page after page of ideas, prompts, quotes, and exercises are like a daily course in creativity. There are lists to fill in—Ten Things I Want to Learn, Ten Things I Probably Think About More Than the Average Person. Challenges to take. Illustrated creative exercises—Make a Mixtape (for someone who doesn’t know you) and Fill in the Speech Balloons. Pro and con charts—What Excites You?/What Drains You?

The journal has an elastic band for place-marking and a special pocket in the back—a “swipe file” to store bits and pieces of inspiration. Because if you want to steal like an artist, you need a place to keep your loot.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761185680
Publisher:	Workman Publishing Company
Publication date:	10/06/2015
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	66,333
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 8.06(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Austin Kleon is a writer who draws. He is the author of  the New York Times bestsellers Steal Like An Artist, which spent six months on the list, and Show Your Work!, as well as Newspaper Blackout. His work has been featured on 20×200.com, NPR’s Morning Edition, PBS Newshour, and in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. The Atlantic called him “positively one of the most interesting people on the Internet.” He speaks frequently about creativity in the digital age for organizations such as Pixar, Google, SXSW, TEDx, and The Economist. He grew up in the cornfields of Ohio, but now lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Meghan, his son, Owen, and his dog, Milo. See his work at austinkleon.com.