MOVING BRIDGES
Given our travel schedule this week, this is another page of travel related drawing. I noted that I seem to have a fondness for moving bridges. The example at the top of the page...
Monthly Archive: December 2015
SPANISH HORREO
We are traveling this week. So I have prepared ahead of time a couple of thoughts and impressions of our past travels. An iconic image of Northern Spain are what are called horreo, or...
CALLIGRAPHY AS A GRAPHIC
I have been using the beautiful graphics of Islamic writing as a way of generating forms. I have been using Islamic calligraphy as a graphic to generate ideas. I continue to think of the...
IN SITU TRANSPARENT DRAWING
It finally happened. I made an in situ transparent drawing in a cloister in northern Spain. In these pages I’ve been extolling the virtues, ad nauseam, of drawing from photographs on your phone. I’m...
NON KNOWING
From The Poetics of Space: “Even in an art like painting, which bears witness to a skill, the important successes take place independently of skill.” 1 A meta mantra in these pages is that...
IMPROVISATION
I listen to a lot of music. And as I listen, I always think about the improvisatory quality of what I am hearing. If you can play a piece of written music and it...
RISK, SATISFACTION, CHOICE, AND COST
We don’t understand our client’s brain. Yet we should. We should understand the mental landscape of how design decisions are made. This requires an understanding of risk, satisfaction, choice and cost. One of the...
ENDOWMENT EFFECT
Psychologists apply the term endowment effect to the value that a person puts on something when they own it. For most items that we own, because we own them, we endow them with a...
UTILITY THEORY
Utility theory is a sociological term used to quantify satisfaction. Economists have devised theorems which attempt to give ways to measure the satisfaction that we derive from items that we buy. The best definition...
FACTUAL DESIGN
Show me the facts. Where’s the facts? Just the facts, maam. Architects and designers need more facts. If we can establish visual facts, we will operate with a much higher degree of objectivity. The...
ALGORITHMIC DESIGN
In the Huffington Post Arts and Culture section, there is an article titled “Towards a Science of Design” by Lance Hosey. As the title suggests, the author is expressing the oft lamented duality of...
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