My Favorite Creative Resources

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Happy Thanksgiving Eve (for those of us in the US anyway)! 

I thought I’d do a different type of issue today and do an aggregate of all my favorite creative resources: books, Instagram accounts, email newsletters, objects, etc. 

Without further ado, here are some of my favorite creative resources:

Instagram Accounts

• @inspiredtowrite

• @wordsarevibrations

• @sams.sketchbooks

• @clairefromonline 

• @briannawiest 

Books

• The Creative Act - Rick Rubin

• Steal Like an Artist - Austin Kleon

• The Artist’s Way - Julia  Cameron 

• Big Magic - Elizabeth Gilbert

• Save the Cat Writes a Novel - Jessica Brody

• Wired for Story - Lisa Cron

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

• Story Genius - Lisa Cron

• On Writing - Stephen King

Communities

• Creative Mornings (global)

Newsletters

• The Hungry

• Austin Kleon’s 10 Things

Supplies:

• SPACIES desk pad

• Paper Republic leather journals

• Archer & Olive notebooks

• Leuchtturm1917 notebooks

• Rhodia paper pads

• Tombow Dual Brush Pens

• Tombow Permanent Adhesive

• Tombow Mono Correction Tape

• Canon Selphy photo printer

• Prismacolor colored pencils

• Zebra Mildliners

• Faber Castell Pitt Artist Brush Pens

• Zig Clean Color Dot Pens

• JetPens (pens & stationery)

• Procreate

• Apple iPad & Apple Pencil

• Paperlike screen protector

• Milanote

• Notion

Places: 

• The Strand (NYC)

• Muji (multiple locations)

• Flying Tiger (multiple locations)

• Glazer’s Camera (Seattle)

• Gage Academy of Art (Seattle)

• Art Battle (Seattle)

• Seattle Recreative (Seattle)

What are some of your favorite creative resources? Reply to this email and let me know—I’m always looking for new things to explore! 

CREATIVE CORNER

• 🎞️ What I’m Consuming: Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan

• 💡 What I’m Loving: My new leather journal from Paper Republic

• 🎨 What I’m Working On: Baking! I made melomakarona (a Greek spice cookie) and some pecan pie bars as this year’s Thanksgiving contribution

• 💭 Weekly Musing:

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Alexa Phillips is a writer, brand strategist, and multi-passionate creative. She is the founder and Chief Brand Architect at Bright Eyes Creative, a creative studio that helps creative entrepreneurs build media-first brands to lead conversations and deeply connect with their audience.

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