ALL THE DESIGN DISCIPLINES

Transparent Drawing is for all the design disciplines.

Industrial Design?  We have touched on it at the page Industrial Designers Do It Better.  And then recently, I covered the Olivetti Valentine typewriter:  see Sotsass at Met Breuer.

Fashion Design?  As if I have not drawn enough of Kawakubo’s designs already, above is another Transparent Drawing of a garment.  Combine that with some of my other fashion drawings, including Kawakubo, Abstract Excellence and What Mondrian Knew, it is clear that Transparent Drawing works for fashion design.

Scientific Design?  We have tabulated the problem solving similarities between science and design.  We noted famous scientific minds describing their problem solving process with the same words that we do.  See Scientific Visualization.

Military Design?  We have covered the development of the axonometric projection, which was used to understand early fort geometry.  And with our transparent axonometric of a fort, we see how this works for this design disclipline.

Name any volumetric/spatial design discipline;  exhibition, display, packaging, product, etc., and Transparent Drawing works.

Drawing these iconic designs that are not buildings has been a revelation.  How, I ask, I beseech, I plead, can we hope to understand these iconic objects unless we draw them transparently?  How can we hope to draw significant design problems without transparency?  How can you understand if you don’t draw what you can’t see?

As an aside, I think that one of the reasons for my continued and enthusiastic fascination with Kawakubo’s pieces is that the seams are celebrated.  The seams show how the piece is made.  The pieces that go together to make the garment are elemental;  they are understood.