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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.
 

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Combines unique and compelling ideas on being creative with physical quality, offering page after page of ideas, prompts, quotes and exercises. Follows on from Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers.

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How to use this journal: Carry it with you wherever you go. Do at least one exercise every day. Repeat the first two steps until the pages are full.

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How to use this journal: Carry it with you wherever you go. Do at least one exercise every day. Repeat the first two steps until the pages are full.

Author Biography

Austin Kleon is a writer who draws. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work! His work has been featured on NPR's Morning Edition, PBS Newshour, and in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. He also speaks frequently about creativity in the digital age for such organizations as Pixar, Google, SXSW, TEDx, and The Economist. He lives in Austin, Texas, and online at austinkleon.com.

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Exactly what the hundreds of thousands of readers inspired by Austin Kleon need an interactive journal and all-in-one logbook to get those creative juices flowing and keep a record of ideas and discoveries.

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If you're going to steal like an artist, you need a place to keep track of your creative theft. The Steal Like an Artist Journalis a notebook based on the bestselling guide to creativity, Steal Like an Artist, its follow-up, Show Your Work.

It is overflowing with inspirational quotes, prompts, exercises and blank pages for wirting down and sketching out new (and lifted) ideas. The design is perfect for a constant creativity companion and swipe file-carry it with you! write down bits of inspiration! let your creativity flow!

Following Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work! The Steal Like an Artist Journal is the next step in the journey. It combines Austin Kleon's unique ideas on being creative. Its page after page of ideas, prompts, quotes, and exercises are like a daily course in creativity a portable workshop and sourcebook of inspiration.

How to use this journal: Carry it with you wherever you go. Do at least one exercise every day. Repeat the first two steps until the pages are full.

How to use this journal: Carry it with you wherever you go. Do at least one exercise every day. Repeat the first two steps until the pages are full.

Austin Kleon is a writer and artist. He is the author of the found poetry collection, "Newspaper Blackout "("brilliant," "New York Magazine"), and his work has been featured on NPR's "Morning Edition", "PBS NewsHour", "The Wall Street Journal", and the art website, 20x200.com. He speaks about creativity and being an artist online for organizations such as SXSW, TEDx, and "The Economist". He lives in Austin and online at

Combines unique and compelling ideas on being creative with physical quality, offering page after page of ideas, prompts, quotes and exercises. Follows on from Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers.

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