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You are dedicated to your craft. You have spent countless hours honing your skills. You have a boundless curiosity for the underlying theories and structure of communicating ideas. You are the artist who finds the connections between your medium and other communications media. You are the artist who relishes in a setback; after all, it's a new opportunity to learn and grow. Inspiration is more than a haphazard mode of thought requiring constant nurturing: it is your natural state of mind.

Lean Into Art is where you go when you're ready to push yourself as an artist in new ways. As a place to learn communication arts online it combines an art-journaling approach, the best of live and time-shifted classes, and a recognition system that encourages students to finish projects, give feedback, even participate in teaching.

It's a big art challenge - that's why we put the enticing warning in the name. You have to lean into it.

Monday
Jan092012

Polytechnicast - Jumping into Clojure with Special Guest Craig Andera

DateMonday, January 9, 2012 at 11:45PM

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In this episode of the Polytechnicast I’m joined by special guest Craig Andera for a totally unscripted tutorial session on programming Clojure. Clojure happens to be Craig’s programming language of choice.

Clojure is a very different coding experience for someone like me who’s into Lua, Python, JavaScript, and ActionScript. Before this podcast I hadn’t written a single line of Clojure - now I feel I have a grasp on the basics.

This is an episode I hope will be interesting whether you’re curious about getting into coding, familiar with coding and are wondering about Clojure, or curious to see how I explore an unfamiliar coding language.

Links Mentioned

Follow Rob on Twitter or his blog at Interactive-Storyteller.com

 

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Friday
Jan062012

LIA Cast 18 - Time! Time! 2

DateFriday, January 6, 2012 at 1:05PM

 

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It's a return to some talk on time management this week as we discuss Jerzy's recent experience using David Seah's Emergent Task Planner. We share some observations on learning how to estimate time needed for projects, how to rapidly reconfigure one's day, and tricks to not talk yourself out of sitting behind the desk.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Social Networking

Upcoming Workshops for January 2012

 

LIA Cast 18 - Time! Time! 2

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Thursday
Jan052012

Vote on Our Next Workshops!

DateThursday, January 5, 2012 at 2:52PM

We've got some great ideas for upcoming workshops, but we want to make sure we're developing classes people will want to take. So let's hear from you! What topics are most interesting to you? Which subjects would you like to dig into more deeply?

It's as simple as filling out this quick poll. And thanks for sharing your thoughts!

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Wednesday
Jan042012

FTAM! Sale!

DateWednesday, January 4, 2012 at 7:00PM

Sign up for our FTAM! Designing Sound Elements in Adobe Illustrator workshop by Friday, January 6, and you'll get some really neat extra stuff!

Gold registrations will receive a bonus 2-hour video: Creating a Cast of Characters (valued $60), where Jerzy Drozd walks you through a story improv exercise where you'll use the characters you've met in real life as inspiration to develop a rich cast of characters with plausible emotional throughlines.

PLUS

A coupon for $100 off our Creative Topics Variety Pack of videos, adding up to nearly 11 hours of instructional material ranging from explorations of visual rhythm to automating your workflow to basic HTML 5 coding for your comic's website.

PLUS

A one-on-one session with Jerzy Drozd where you can get some input on your comics work!

Silver registrations will receive the bonus video and the coupon for $100 off the Creative Topics Variety Pack.

Bronze registrations will receive the bonus video.

So regardless of what level you're comfortable signing on for, you're guaranteed extra materials for signing up before Friday, January 6!

Already signed up for the class? No problem. As a thanks for signing up early, you'll get the bonus material assigned to the level to which you've registered.

Think this is a neat idea, but can't afford to sign up at all? Then tell a friend by posting a link to this post on Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, or on your blog. And thank you so much for that!

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Friday
Dec302011

LIA Cast 17 - Mad About Design

DateFriday, December 30, 2011 at 12:29PM

 

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In this audio-only episode, Rob and Jerzy take a preliminary dive into the topic of the importance of good design in visual communication. The primary focus of this talk revolves around how to communicate the importance of design to your team or client, but Rob also breaks down three key motivators that can inform a design for better or worse.

  • Design Principles
  • Hueristics
  • Opinion

Links mentioned in this episode:

Social Networking

Upcoming Workshops for January 2012

 

LIA Cast 17 - Mad About Design

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