METAPHOR QUOTIENT
Decrease the metaphor quotient in your drawings. The more directly your drawings relate to the problem you are working to solve, the less of a metaphor they are, and the lower your metaphor quotient....
Monthly Archive: January 2016
VIRTUAL PENCIL AND BRUSH
More thoughts on evolving digital drawing interfaces. SensAble Technologies, a digital interface company operating in the 1990s, manufactured a handheld controller which gave users the virtual sensation of actually touching onscreen objects. In their...
MESSY DESIGN
The robotics revolution is upon us. Reports and predictions continually express great concern that the machines will take over. While some robotic systems strive for artificial intelligence, others are geared to intelligence augmentation. Robotic...
SUI GENERIS
Dubuffet, as reported by Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker, educates us on the Art Brut movement which the artist Dubuffet championed. While I have not had a chance to see the Dubuffet show...
ANDO IN WILLIAMSTOWN
We willingly go far and wide to see museums. So it was great to see a museum practically in our back yard; Ando’s addition to The Clark in Williamstown. These pages have addressed the...
PICASSO AT MOMA 2
Used to be, when I would see a show like the Picasso Sculptures currently at MOMA, my attention would be superficial, for lack of a better term. That is to say, I would look...
PICASSO AT MOMA 1
How could there be such free composition, such deft assembly, and such humor? In every piece? This show has to be considered the motherlode. I believe that the entirety of modernism, if not the...
PSYCHOLOGICAL GROWTH IN BUILDINGS
Psychological growth is never part of a building program. Have you ever discussed with your clients the potential for emotional development or increasing personal freedom? I have yet to discuss with my clients the...
MARTIN PURYEAR
I had the highest hopes for this drawing show at the Cooper Hewett. The New York Times review was titled “Martin Puryear, Multiple Dimensions.” From this review, “His commitment to three dimensions endures even...
TRANSPARENT DRAWING AT MOMA!
There is a transparent drawing at MOMA! During our travels last week, we were in MOMA in NYC. While we were there to see the Picasso sculpture show, we waded thru the crowds to...
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