Monthly Archive: January 2017
TRANSPARENT MACHINE DRAWING
A robot makes transparent drawings. As faithful readers of these pages will attest, I am always on the lookout for transparent drawings. And here we have transparent drawings. And they are done by a...
DRAWING CONTINUUM
Let’s put the following all into one bowl and stir: lingual characters, scientific graphs, pictograms, logographic characters, petroglyphs, transparent drawing, heiroglyphics, etc. All of these we produce with a pencil and paper. Ergo, they...
SCIENTIFIC ICONS
Mike makes a really good point. In his reply to The Pencil Marks On The Paper, he states that engineering graphs give a more complete and intuitive understanding than the mathematical characters which produce...
THE END OF DESIGN
You have an idea. You draw the idea on your paper. Then you describe the idea in words. That description, using words, makes your concept static. Think about it. There you are, happily drawing...
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BUILDING IN THE WORLD 1
We were hungry for lunch. Trip Advisor said there was an interesting spot not too far from where we were. After making our way thru the streets of Lisbon, a small courtyard opened before...
CEMINTIRI DE MONTJUIC
The true design icon in Barcelona is a cemetery. Contrary to what you are fed to believe, the most iconic design in Barcelona is not the Barcelona Pavilion or Casa Batllo, both of which...
WAR ON LANGUAGE
Maybe it is just me, but it seems that everywhere I read, very negative things are said about language. I have recorded some of these examples in these pages. It is becoming clear that...
THE PENCIL MARKS ON THE PAPER
Imagine that you have a pencil and a piece of paper. You proceed to make a few marks with your pencil on your paper. Now stop and look what you have done. You have...
YEAR IN REVIEW
How do you generate new forms? More to the point, can there be a method which can be used to for novel form and enclosure generation? This question is one of the central points...
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