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Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon | Buy the limited-edition art on 20x200.com here.
In the newsletter, Charlie writes:
Today’s edition, and the book it came from, all originated from a list of 10 principles Austin wished someone had shared with him when he was first starting out. Eager to share his list with everyone (as he is with all his work, including “deleted scenes” and his sketchbook), he turned his pointers from a talk to college students into a blog post (which quickly went viral), and eventually into a book. It wasn’t long before Steal Like an Artist became his second New York Times bestseller.
Congrats to Austin Kleon for making The New York Times’s list of bestsellers!
Pick up Steal Like An Artist here.
Buy his 20x200 prints here.
Congrats on the new book, Austin!
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Hope you’ll permit me some more gratuitous Steal Like An Artist shots. Just really proud of this book. (Obligatory pre-order link here.)
How To Be Cool by Austin Kleon (left)
Open Road by Austin Kleon (right)
In the newsletter, Sara writes:
Today we’re adding two new prints to Austin Kleon’s arsenal of wise and witty wordsmithings. That there are now eight editions available is testament to Austin’s ceaseless creativity, as well as our inability to keep up with him. This writer who draws, after all, has filled a book of Blackout Poems and has another tome on the way. His much anticipated How to Steal Like an Artist won’t hit the shelves till March 2012, but you can pre-order a copy (or a few, they’re a ridiculous deal at $5.82!).
For faster gratification, I present to you now: How To Be Cool and Open Road. As Austin himself says, “Black(out) goes with everything. [And] art is the best gift you can give.” As you know, we whole-heartedly agree. So, might I suggest that these two prints are best for your most difficult to shop for—namely the dudes and lone rangers that you adore? Ante up because, like Austin’s other editions, I’m guessing these won’t last for long.
If you’re seeking instant inspiration: Watch and listen to Austin’s insights here. Or read two recent interviews here and here. Hope that tides you over till tomorrow!
What Is Marriage? by Austin Kleon
10”x8” ($20) | 14”x11” ($50) | 20”x16” ($200)
Like I said on Twitter, I’m so excited for all of my friends to get married.
New on 20x200: Overheard on the Titanic by Austin Kleon
10”x8” ($20) | 14”x11” ($50) | 20”x16” ($200)
In the newsletter, Jen writes:
I introduced Austin’s The Travelogue shortly after returning from my Austin-with-Austin travels and what I wrote back then is still the best description I can think of to describe why I find Austin’s work so enchanting:
His selection-by-omission practice is the semi-illogical next step in a process that I go through constantly, one which I’ve pursued, involuntarily at times, for as long as I can remember being able to read. Nearly all my reading is a swim against an undercurrent of my unending search for a motto, a rallying cry or a mantra. Whether it’s a poignant refrain of a pop song, a quote from a dead person or a few lines swiped from an admired poet, my constant search for a few good words is… constant. But, my ceaseless scanning of a page for a string of resonant words is thoroughly trumped by Austin’s talent for stringing them together. He doesn’t find poetry, he makes it—and he doesn’t just make it, he publishes it. Which is to say that this creative-writing-major-with-a-concentration-in-poetry college dropout makes me both green with envy and glowing with pride.
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