How-to's

In this section you will find PDFs and links to other guides and resources for making work. From DIY resources to recording techniques to open-source software, this section will show you the tools and ways to teach yourself new skills for making work.

Improve your skills by teaching yourself new skills and developing your practice. This section provides links to guides and manuals to free resources to improve your digital skills for making art.

We'll be posting our own guides as well as links to others we find across the net.

Further Reading

Digital Artist Handbook
The Digital Artist Handbook is an online resource that introduces ways to use the tools for making digital art and using open-source software. Regularly updated by a team of specialists, the project is supported by Folly and GOTO10.

FLOSS Manuals
FLOSS Manuals provides PDFs and links to manuals for using a range of open-source software including audio-editing programs such as Ardour and Audacity.

MAKE Magazine
Make Magazine is a magazine dedicated to DIY technology projects, featuring a wide range of how-to articles from instrument-making and circuit bending to computer-controlled devices.

Sonic Postcards Teacher Pack
A guide on how to run your own Sonic Postcards projects. Also includes a guide to using Audacity, the open source audio editor.

Create Digital Music
An online magazine and community for musicians using technology about how to make the most of digital music technology on computers (Windows, Mac, and Linux), game platforms, mobile devices, electronic hardware, and DIY and handmade inventions, and examine the work of the artists and inventors who explore digital media.

eHub
eHub is a constantly updated resource of web applications, services and sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0) and social software.