Tim Rodenbröker

A new course is coming soon: "Generative Collages" 🔥

Hey there,

I hope you are doing great! I have some good news: The main lessons for my upcoming course "Generative Collages" are completely r...

My talk at Demo Festival 2025 🎥

Hi Creative Coders! 👋

Maybe you remember that I am working as one of the curators at the Demo Festival. Yesterday the main event happened in Amsterdam and I've had the honor to give a talk there, just lik...

Exclusive Tutorial: Text as Data Input 🔥

Hi Creative Coders, 👋

I hope you are doing good! I’ve been continuing to look at how you can work with texts as a data input. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to import an external text file into your Processi...

Exclusive Tutorial: A Cloud of Words ☁️

Hey you, ✌️

I hope you're doing well!

This session was totally spontaneous and came to me more than I was looking for something to do. I originally intended to develop a visual system that would create a collage of words based on a...

A Thank You to my Patrons! And a Note about Social Media

Hi folks,

I would like to address you directly today to talk about an important topic that is making me concerned at the moment: �...

Exclusive Tutorial: Split Flap Typography ⚙️

Hey there, 👋

how is it going?

Split flap displays, like the ones you used to see at airport terminals and train stations, have attracted me since I was a child. I resonate with the motion of these weird machines, when the informatio...

Luna Maurer (Studio Moniker) on Designing Friction 🔥

Hi you!  ☀️

I hope you are doing well!

Two weeks ago, I was at the Iterations conference in s’Hertogenbosch (Netherlands) and there she was: Luna Maurer! I’ve known Luna’s work for many years, toge...

December 2024 updates 🔍

Hey you, ☀️

I hope you are doing great! There was a lot happening on my end in the last weeks and I want update you wit...

Life Updates + Vera Molnar Reconstructed (livestream recordings) ☀️

Dear Friends, 👋

I am back from my radio silence, with new energy and many new ideas. I've settled down in Paderborn, my hometown again, after two exciting years in Barcelona, Spain. And I finally have a small video studio...

Next stop - Type Transformations

Hey you, ☀️

I hope you are doing good! First of all I want to thank you for participating in the poll last week. This hel...

Share your Opinion: Which Course Should I Create Next?

Hi you! 😊

I would love to receive your input on which course I should develop/finalize next. I would be delighted if you wou...

My brand new course "Building Tools" is live! 🥳

Hey everyone! 

I am really excited to announce that I've finally released my brand new course Building Tools...

Building Tools - New Course Teaser

Hey everyone, 👋

I just finished the teaser video of the upcoming course "Building Tools".

What do you think about it? Let me know!

Warm greets, ☀️

Tim

The "Tim Rodenbröker Monthly Newsletter" is my new Content Hub

Hey there! 👋

Here's a quick update, because I want to inform you about a simple change: In the future, I'll send updates about...

Michelle Duong on her Adventures in Creative Coding and Interactive Typography

Hey everyone! 👋

There is a new conversation online: I had the pleasure to do an interview with German graphic designer Michelle Duong about her adventures in Creative Coding and Interactive Typography. I really love ...

Two new lessons for the upcoming course on building tools with p5.js ✅

Hi everyone, 

I hope you are all going good! ☀️

I've finished two more lessons for the upcoming course on building ...

courses/tools -> The finish line is in sight! 💪 🏁

Hi friends, 👋

I am still a little bit hesitant of saying “I am almost done with the tools course”, but let’s put it that way: I am approaching the finish line. Most lessons have been recorded, now I have to a...

Exclusive preview - A conversation with Daniel Shiffman! 👀 💥

Hey folks, ✌️

Could anyone of you imagine a world without Daniel? I absolutely can't and my career would have been a different one if this one highly sympathic and ingenious man wouldn't have cultivated Creative Coding for ...

Build your own Tools (with p5.js) - Application Layout 🛠️

Hey everyone, 👋

I hope you are doing good! I am making progress in recording the lessons for the upcoming course on building design tools with p5.js. After I've explained most of the user interface elements (like text inp...

A personal video message with a few updates

Hi there! 👋 🌏

I hope you are doing good! I wanted to update you on the status of the development of new courses, about my work for the DEMO Festival, about my move (back) to Germany and about my refined trajectory.

Any comments...

Case Study: DEMO 2025 – My Submissions

Hey you! 👋

This week I want to share a new case study with you in which I reflect on the ideas for my submissions for DEMO Festival 2025. (I am also a part of the curational team)

Limitations have always been playin...

Building tools: The first three lessons for review! 👀

Hi everyone, 👋

I hope you are doing good! I am making progress with the course on buidling design tools and today I want to share the first three lessons with you,.

The latest live coding sessions (shared here on Pa...

Two new conversations: Hannah Gmeiner and Tameem Sankari

Dear Creative Coders, ✌️

in the last few months I have interviewed many exciting personalities from the Creative Coding scene...

Building a Tool – Episode 4 – Coding Systems Workshop Announcements

Hi Creative Coders, ✌️

today I want to share another recording of a live coding session of my tool building series with you! This time I‘ve’ built a tool prototype for the workshop announcements of Coding Systems. Co...

Building a Tool - Episode 3 - Refactoring the Code 🛠️

Hey Creative Coders, ✌️

I hope you are doing great! I am following the streak of building a design tool with p5.js and in this third episode I took some time to structure the code to make it more understandable, for me a...

Exclusive: How to build a design tool with p5.js?

Hi Creative Coders! 👋

I hope you are doing great!

I am super excited for this very first so-called "Drop", a new feature by Patreon. Drops are quite similar like YouTube premieres, but exclusive for Patrons. Y...

Submit your work to the DEMO Festival 2025!

Hey Creative Coders,

I hope you are doing great! This week I’ll take a short pause from the tools-theme and make you aware that the open call of the DEMO Festival is now live and you can submit your work until the end of A...

Exclusive Tutorial: Build a simple GUI for your Processing sketch with ControlP5 🛠️

Hey Creative Coders, 👋

here comes another exploration from the realms of custom design tools. This time I've experimented with a special and very popular library for Processing called controlP5, to build a few basi...

Exclusive! A long conversation with Kiel Danger Mutschelknaus on Coding Design Tools 🔥

Hi Creative Coders, ✌️

I am extremely hyped to share this great conversation with you!

This week I’ve had the honor and pleasure to interview the amazing Kiel Danger Mutschelknaus. Since years he is known for bu...

Exclusive Tutorial: Let’s build a Tool! (session 01) 🛠️

Hi Creative Coders,

I hope you are alll doing good! ✌️

This week I want to share a first video tutorial with you. As you know, I am currently developing a course on building tools with p5.js and this video is some ...