This interview with photographer Chase Jarvis is a great introduction to my work, as is our most recent conversation. What kind of notebooks do you use? Here’s a bunch of gear I use in the studio. What are your favorite books? Here are my favorites from the past +15 years. How did you come up with the idea to make your newspaper blackout poems? There’s a brief history on the blog and the full story is in the book. How do I get published, famous, etc.? My book Show Your Work! is a guide to getting your work out there, and my book Keep Going is how to stick with it for the long run. What advice do you have for young artists starting out? It’s pretty much all in Steal Like An Artist. Origin of name: “Austin” was a family name before Texas was a state. in Interdisciplinary Studies, Miami University Visit him online at The best way to stay in touch is to subscribe to my newsletter.Įducation: B Phil. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and sons. In previous lives, he worked as a librarian, a web designer, and an advertising copywriter.

New York Magazine called his work “brilliant,” The Atlantic called him “positively one of the most interesting people on the Internet,” and The New Yorker said his poems “resurrect the newspaper when everybody else is declaring it dead.” He speaks for organizations such as Pixar, Google, SXSW, TEDx, and The Economist. He’s been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, PBS Newshour, and in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. His books have been translated into dozens of languages and have sold over a million copies worldwide.

He’s also the author of Newspaper Blackout, a collection of poems made by redacting the newspaper with a permanent marker. Here’s a longer, more official-sounding version, suitable for copying and pasting:Īustin Kleon is the New York Times bestselling author of a trilogy of illustrated books about creativity in the digital age: Steal Like An Artist, Show Your Work!, and Keep Going. Photo credit: Clayton Cubitt I’m a writer who draws. I make art with words and books with pictures.

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