No more boring drawings!
28. January 2026 3072 views
Many drawing tutorials show us how to draw things. Why are these drawings so boring?
28. January 2026 3072 views
Many drawing tutorials show us how to draw things. Why are these drawings so boring?
13. July 2024 4087 views
To “animate” means to breathe life into things. In these 5 exercises we make stones come alive.
1. December 2023 11438 views
How do I even begin my drawing? The secret to jumpstart our creativity is fun. But how does that work?
1. December 2022 57175 views
Great ideas are hard to find. Drawing makes it a lot easier. And fun. How?
1. October 2022 13824 views
A quick introduction for beginners to J.J. Gibson’s ecological approach to visual perception. Gibson was an American pragmatist and psychologist.
21. August 2022 9605 views
This article gives a phenomenological definition of what a picture is.
18. April 2022 8982 views
What is Design?
Designers share a problem with politicians and business consultants: nobody knows what they are actually doing. I can shed some light on what designers do: They shape our daily environment.
22. September 2018 5668 views
This article is about creative ideas and illustrations.
28. January 2018 40759 views
Until recently everyday objects were shaped by their technology. The design of a telephone was basically a hull around a machine. The task of the designers was to make technology look pretty.
6. June 2017 2838 views
Many creatives know this phenomenon: They start a new project on a promising topic with excitement, but when they can’t come up with an original idea instantly — they lose interest. They come to the conclusion that they picked the wrong topic. So they restart with a new topic, only to find out that the […]
29. December 2016 3481 views
This article is a quick summary of a basic design course. It addresses a simple question: How do you design interactive systems that are easy to understand? Well, it all comes down to two things: structure and process.
11. October 2016 3390 views
The digital revolution was a gold rush for curious minds. Nobody knew what digital media actually was, only that it was about to impact our lives profoundly. It was unknown territory waiting to be filled with new artforms, designs and ways to understand the world.
25. May 2016 3384 views
Pick a small topic for your creative project! One of the biggest mistakes you can make in your creative project is to pick a topic which is too big. As an artist and designer I keep making one mistake time and again. So if this article sounds like me giving advice to other creatives… it […]