PUTTING MY MONEY WHERE MY MOUTH IS
When you use the work of another as a starting point, it is amazing how quickly what you are working on becomes your own. I get great enjoyment and inspiration from the paintings and...
Tagged: ANALOGUE DRAWING
THE FIRST TRANSPARENT DRAWING?
Why does everything always lead back to Duschamp? I’ve been pondering this question for quite some time now. Maybe it is just me, but in my continuing quest for new form generation methods, so...
EMOTIONAL FORMS
There is no question that we continually search for new forms. These might take the shape of a watch, a phone or a building. But as enclosure designers we truly are searching for novel...
MISSING ASSOCIATIONS
Associations are very important. This has been said many times in these pages. And has also been said here, the means the methods of strengthening these associations is completely missing from our architectural /...
HEARILIZATION IS NOT A WORD
I continue to be captivated by Philip Glass’ use of the word visualize in his book Words Without Music when describing his creative process. Before this, I had never thought that music composition employed...
FAMOUS CREATIVE MINDS
Noguchi tells us, “Primarily, what we carry around with us is a memory of our childhood, back when each day held the magic of discovering the world.” It seems to me that there are...
KNEE JERK DESIGN
As should be clear by now, representational drawing is by definition based on the exclusion of information. Opaque objects hide what’s behind them. And what you can’t see, you can’t process. Kahneman, in Thinking...
FAMILIAR HURT
Humans are very comfortable with the familiar. There is the old adage that we are creatures of habit. And I would surmise that this is entirely true. We are comfortable with the tried and...
STEPPING OUTSIDE OUR CULTURE
Philip Glass’ book, Words Without Music, is an inspirational and humble look into the mind of a famous creator. When I read books like this, I like to keep an eye on some of...
THINK AHEAD OF THE ROBOTS
An article in the New York Times today talks about higher education’s need to teach their students the skills necessary to remain relevant in face of the robotic revolution. The article mentions how a...
ANTI-TECHNIQUE
I am wary of watercolor technique. You might call me anti-technique. Open any introduction to watercolor book and the pages are bold and bright and frankly intimidating. Those books demonstrate all sorts of standard...
TRANSPARENT BRAIN
The current issue of The New Yorker chronicles the efforts of Karl Deisseroth to understand how the brain works. Mr. Deisseroth is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Stanford. And he has led groundbreaking efforts...
CULTURAL BIAS
Analogue drawing is such a precious tool that we possess. From what I can tell, there is a lack of innovation. Yet we should be innovating. We should be developing broader and unique ways...
UNLEARN THE PICTURE PLANE
Studies done of peoples who are completely separate from the western media and mindset are illuminating. Joan and Louis Forsdale demonstrate that our understanding of the contents of a two dimensional picture plane seems...
DRAW THE WRONG WAY
When you have to come up with a creative solution, you need to feel free to draw like you have never drawn before. And this typically means that you end up drawing the wrong...
CINEMATIC LECORBUSIER
I believe that LeCorbusier was very dependent upon pictures and photographs to make his architecture. His books are stuffed full of photographs of ships and machines. I pretty sure that when he was designing...
TRANSPARENT CONTOUR DRAWING
Certainly one of the most powerful tools with which to see is the contour drawing. I guess that is why authors such as Nicolaides in his The Natural Way To Draw essentially starts his...
TRANSPARENT WEAVING
We ran across the weaving of Ethel Stein at the Art Institute of Chicago last fall. She is a mater weaver who, at 96 years old, is only now coming into the recognition that...
WHAT A THOUGHT LOOKS LIKE
Bucky Fuller believed that the tetrahedron was the most efficient enclosure that humans can create in the Newtonian world. A tetrahedron has four points which then create enclosures with four sides. These four points...
ASSOCIATIVE CONFIDENCE
We typically categorize smart people based on their ability to recall facts. Our entire educational system is based upon this premise. My personal belief is that each of us has a more or less...
RANDOM MODERNIST BUILDING
Sometimes a building that you see stays in your imagination. This happened recently during a visit to Vancouver. While riding bicycles around the city, we happened to ride past this random modernist pavilion which...
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