Tim Rodenbröker

Three great resources to find inspiration for Creative Coding

Hello dear people, ☀️

I hope you are doing well! Today I provide you with lots of inspiration and share with you three places that I turn to when I'm looking for ideas.

Stig Møller Hansen's Pinterest board is one of them, there you can find over 4000 designs, all of them at least in theory following a princ...

Creative Coding for clients - Insights into my work for nytimes.com and IBM

Dear people, ✌️

I hope you are doing well! Today I'm sharing insights into my work for clients and show you how I've been gaining valuable requests via Instagram and other social networks over the past few years. By now I receive such a request almost every week, but since I have limited resources I...

Project "Hybrid Curriculum" - porting all courses to p5.js / a new UI for navigating my courses 🔥

Hello folks, 🙋🏻

I hope you are doing well! 

Last week I announced that I'm porting the courses from Processing to p5.js together with the help of a few great contrib...

Project "Hybrid Curriculum": Enhancing all lessons with p5.js-code

Hello folks, ✌️

I hope you are all doing well! Here comes a huge update. 

Backstory: For the current semester, I have accepted a small teaching assignment for Creative Coding again after a long time. This time I'm teaching the course "Graphic Design Machines" at the FH Bielefeld together with Florian...

New course out now: ASCII Adventures 🔥

Hi folks! 🙌

I hope you are well. Today I send you an update again. A lot has happened in the last days. The most important in short:

ASCII Adventures is out now!

Finally it's done: ASCII Adventure is now completely finished! I'm super happy with the result and ...

ASCII Adventures / What's next? / www sketchbook

Hi everyone! ✌️

i hope you are doing good!

Things are going really well! I have now recorded all the videos for ASCII Adve...

Roadmap update: next course releases, web technology research

Hi folks, ✌️

i hope you are doing well!

after I had a lot of hustle and bustle at the DEMO festival last week, I am now very much looking forward to about 4 weeks without any travel and appointments. I can now focus on the devel...

"The new Demoscene" – My talk at DEMO Festival 2022

Hi folks, ☀️

i hope you are doing good!

I am super escited, because tomorrow (i am writing this text on Wednesday, October 5th 2022) the DEMO Festival! Yay! In the afternoon I will give my talk and since the whole thing won't be broadcast on the net, I thought it would be a good idea to share a recording/rehea...

Exclusive tutorial: Exploring the Ani library for Processing, a game-changer for motion design 🔥

Hi folks, 🙌

I hope you are all well! I am just passing through: Next week I'll be in the Netherlands for the DEMO Festival and I'm really looking forward to it! 

At the moment I'm working on a couple of client projects in pa...

Workshop-Finale "Form follows Music" in Kassel

Dear people, ☀️

I hope you are well! Yesterday I was on my way back from my workshop "Form follows Music" in Kassel, which was a lot of fun. The 2022-09-24 07:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Grid Systems Q&A ☀️ / Website improvements 🛠

Hi folks! ✌️

I'm in Kassel right now and today I'm giving a workshop for music visualization, based on my 2022-09-16 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post

New Course: "Grid Systems" is out now! 🔥

Hi there! 

I hope you are well! Phew, what a journey! After a long period of work, about a dozen discarded lessons, and many discussions with a wide variety of people, I finally got Grid Systems into a finished state. The course is now available. 

Looking at the course now I realize that...

Let's meet! 🍸 September 8th 2022 / 7pm (CET) on Discord

Hey there!

One more thing: Next week there will be a casual community meetup! We will gather in the #letsmeet channel on our Discord server, starting at 7pm (CET). 

if you haven't re...

Centering a Grid System / Redrawing Images

Hi Folks,☀️

I'm back from Rotterdam and looking back on a super inspiring couple of days! Today I directly used the new energy and recorded a session explaining how to cleanly center a grid system in Processing. The question had come up in Discord, thanks to Sherm! There are a lot of exciting possib...

Tutorial/Session: "ASCII Adventures" (code is attached)

Hello folks, ☀️

I hope you are well! I spontaneously went to Rotterdam and am now sitting in the office of Studio Dumbar. I am so incredibly happy that some of you have submitted work for the 2022-08-26 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post

form follows music - a glimpse into my upcoming course on music visualization 🔥

Hi folks! ☀️

things are moving forward! Today I would like to share a first glimpse into the course "Form follows Music", which is about music visualization of the Prelude in C by Johann Sebastian Bach. Due to its regular structure, the piano piece is almost perfect to be used as a dataset for gener...

Processing or p5.js – Which is the better language for beginners?

Hi! 

In case you haven't seen it yet: I've wrote a new blogpost.

The range of Creative Coding languages and frameworks is enormous and  often confusing at the beginning. In my newest blogpost I ...

I'm back from my vacation / Planned course-releases

Hello folks, ✌️

i hope you are doing well!

After a few weeks of absence I'm back from my summer break! I look back on a great bike trip with great friends through the French Alps. We rode from Lake Geneva through wonderful landscapes to the Cote d'Azur and even crossed an alpine pass at 2400 m...

A conversation with Stig Møller Hansen

Hello dear community, 👋🏼

I hope you are all well! This is my last post before a three week summer break, as I will be leaving Sunday for a long bike tour. This Friday I want to share with you a conversation I recorded in March 2022. 

The sympathic Dane Stig Moller Hansen is Sen...

What's next? Here's my roadmap for autumn and winter 2022

Hey folks, 👋🏼

here's a quick "hello" in between. 

Before I go on vacation on friday, I would like to tell you what my plans are for the rest of the year and i really would like to hear what yo...

Physical Community Meetup in 2023?

Hi folks, ☀️

I hope you are all doing well!

My studies are done, this weekend is the exhibition at the Design Department of the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld and I'm totally looking forward to my vacation: Next weekend my summer trip starts: I will ride with 3 friends by bike from G...

Grid Systems - work in progress

Dear people,

I hope you are all well! Now that the master thesis is finally done, I have tim...

My master thesis "Creative Coding as a School of Thought" is now live!

Dear friends, ☀️

i hope you are doing well!

When I started my master’s program in  2019, I had one question in mind that would become the linchpin for me  in the following years...

Exclusive Tutorial: Interactive Grid System for DEMO 2022

Dear folks ☀️

i hope you are doing well!

right now it's really hectic here, I'm in the final stages of correcting my master thesis and I'm doing a lot of things at the same time again. Fortunately, this phase is finally over in mid-July, so I can go on vacation for two weeks. I am really looki...

The workshop at International Assembly was amazing! 💙

Dear people, ☀️

I hope you are all doing well! Last week I did my three-day workshop at International Assembly and it was really really cool. The organization of the event was top notch (thanks again so much to Mook!!) and I was especially happy that some of the Patreon community was there. It's a s...

Update June 2022 - DEMO / Courses / Workshop / Feedback

Hello everyone! ☀️

Here in Paderborn the summer has finally arrived. However, I spend most of my time in my little office finishing my master thesis "Creative Coding as a School of Thought". I'm ...

Spotlight w/ Stig Møller Hansen | Part 1

Hi everyone! 🙌

I hope you are doing well! This week i' send you a new episode of my "spotlight"-series on Youtube. 

Stig Møller Hansen is a Creative Coding educator from Denmark, working  at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Kopenhagen. He has  written a highly recomm...

Building a digital painting studio from scratch with Processing

Hey folks,  ☀️

i hope you are doing well!

A few weeks ago I met the German artist Arno Beck, whose work I find absolutely great. Arno is a painter and deals with the transfer of digital phenomena into the physical world. Inspired...

New Search-feature

Hi there, ☀️

before i'll send you a new session tomorrow, i want to share a very quick update on the user interface of the website. I've finally made it to implement the search. This feature should be very useful for you.

Do you have any tips on the accessibility and the usability of the websi...

Ksawery Komputery's latest work (🔥️) / Creative Coding with web-technologies

Hello dear people, 

I hope you are well! Today I would like to share with you a great work I discovered on the net this week. It's a music video by Ksawery Komputery for Max Cooper, implemented 100% with HTML,CSS and Javascript. So it's basically a web page. I had a quick chat wit...