KNOWLEDGE AND DATA
Tom Gruber is head of advanced development for Siri at Apple. He has been at the vanguard of AI (Artificial Intelligence) from the very first. And he has specifically been interested in speech recognition...
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COMBINATORY CREATIVITY
Let’s imagine a fantasy class which gives equal weight to science and art. The design concepts behind Starry Night by van Gogh are just as important as the molecular arrangement of sulphur. The prime...
KAWAKOONING
Did DeKooning ever design a dress? Not that we know of. Yet one of his favorite inspirations was the feminine form. Think of the Women series. Did Kawakubo ever depict the feminine form, as...
WHAT MONDRIAN KNEW
Any time the great poet Charles Wright uses the word transparent, we take notice. “As Mondrian knew, Art is the image of an image of an image, More vacant, more transparent With each repeat...
SOTTSASS AT MET BREURER
The Sottsass exhibition at the Met Breurer shows some of the inspiration of the designer’s work. The exhibition made a specific point of showing some of the exact things that Sottsass was looking at...
KAWAKUBO – ABSTRACT EXCELLENCE
I can’t stop drawing Kawakubo. Since I saw the Comme des Garcons exhibit at the Met, I have made a Kawakubo inspired Transparent Drawing every day. The more that I look at the photos...
KAWAKUBO AT THE MET
We just saw the Comme des Garcons show at the MET. I am surprised by my emotional response to the show and how inspiring it is. This is a 20 year retrospective of Rei...
REASON OF OBJECTS
Most of us would agree that our concept of representational drawing is “a mere feeble analogue of a reality which overflows it in every direction. “ Drawing is “an absolute positing of that which,...
LEON FERRARI
Let’s start the week off with this consideration of this great quote from Leon Ferrari: “I draw silent handwritten words, which tell things, with lines that recall voices. And I write drawings that recite...
BERGER: WORDS DON’T COUNT
Two pages ago, faithful reader Robert seems to suggest that my John Berger quote (STONES IN YOUR POCKET), is taken out of context. So I went back to the section that Berger’s stones in...
DO WE SEE IN PICTURES?
If we don’t see in pictures, then why do we think it is so important to draw pictures? Steen Eiler Rasmussen gives us the following thought: “Ordinarily we do not see a picture of...
ARTISTIC SIDESTEP
“But Kelberman’s project is, in addition, a visual world-building that explicitly sidesteps not only the language of antiquity and classicism but also any suggestion of “artistic” image making. Her choices are brightly colored,...
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...
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...
STICKBOARD DIGITAL INTERFACE
I’ve come up with a great new digital interface. It’s called the Stickboard. This new product has been designed to eliminate your laptop’s keyboard by fitting directly over it. The Stickboard provides an analogue...
BECOMING TRANSPARENT DRAWING
Like I’ve said before, I’m bad at social media. So when Transparent Drawing is tagged on Facebook; actually, when Gail White, who is a poet, writes a short poem titled Becoming Transparent Drawing, I...
TRANSCEND CUBISM
I had never heard of Stuart Davis. That is, until Schjaldahl’s 20 June New Yorker article made the introduction. Davis was an early modernist painter who completely believed in his artistic mission. He also...
WHERE PAPER COMES FROM
Paper. We worship it. It is what we draw on. How is it made? About 95% of the paper that we draw on comes from trees. At the heart of it, the papermaking process...
SCARPA SYNESTHETICS
Carlos Scarpa has always been a hero. So it was with great interest when I came across this passage in Harry Mallgrave’s The Architect’s Brain; Neuroscience, Creativity and Architecture. This quote is attributed to...
THINKING IN BETWEEN
Es Devlin, who is the most prominent set designer in the world, thinks like a transparent drawer. In Andrew O’Hagen’s article, Imaginary Spaces, in the 28 March 16 issue of The New Yorker, he...
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