Tagged: FORM COMBINE
STILL AND MOVING
Humans produce still images (paintings, photographs, etc) and moving images (films, videos, slide displays, etc.). There are no still images in human visual perception: the area of light that is focused on your retina...
WORKING BALANCE
What are the marks that you make on the surface? What is your working balance? Are they lines? Does the term line confuse the issue? A line as defined by Euclidian modalities does...
FORMNICATION
Formnication noun 1. the imparting or exchanging of information between forms2. a process by which one form is modified by another one“This is the result of the formnication of the cylinder...
THE PROCESS IS THE MASSAGE
“What is needed is a process approach: each visual representation should be linked with its context of production.” Pauwels.
TAKE A DOT FOR A WALK
Paul Klee famously stated that a line is “a dot that went for a walk.” You make a dot when your pencil touches your paper, and that dot goes for a walk because of...
THE ARCHITECT SHALL DESIGN A FORM
The fundamental task of a designer is to design a form. Before any problem is solved there must be a form. Yet, designers are seen as problem solvers. A client may say, I...
SIMULTANEOUS DRAWING
In Transparent Drawing, I used the words simultaneous, and simultaneously, 20 times. Drawing simultaneously is one of my central concepts. As I took these photos a few days ago in the countryside of Girona,...
BRAIN DUMP
I’ve been wanting to put together a page like this for awhile. I have assembled sequential pages from a sketchbook, to see if my brain dump gives insight. The date range is from 7...
EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS
“Design is everybody’s business because we live in it, we eat in it, we pray and play in it. And still the appreciation of design, good or bad, is considered as the privilege of...
DESIGN COMPETENCE
Architects, to maintain their license to practice, need to earn a certain number of what are called Continuing Education credits per year. Many of you readers are architects, and are of course familiar with...
YOUR GEOMETRIC REPERTOIRE
If you are a designer, what do you do as design exercises? Athletes and musicians engage in strengthening exercises. If you are of the lingual bent, you develop sets of phonemes. As a...
DRAWING MATERIALITY 5
This is our 5th installment of Drawing Materiality. Because we are 100% analogue, when we draw, we are celebrating our humanity. Make material marks. As any perusal of my Transparent Drawings will...
OSKAR SCHLEMMER
Oskar Schlemmer was a German artist and choreographer, working right before WW II. He taught at the Bauhaus, and is known for his acclaimed work, The Triadic Ballet. (The music was by Hindemith!). I...
HAPTIC CURIOSITY
We manipulate forms with our hands automatically, without thinking about it. A large amount of this haptic manipulation, as well as our bodily locomotion, takes place so that the hidden may be revealed. We...
STEP BY STEP
We teach ourselves. The role of instructors / professors / et. al. is to foment learning. You (YES YOU!) then have to do what is necessary for the assimilation of knowledge. This is my...
NEGATIVE SPACE
Negative space. Now that is a stupid art term. What does that really mean? I don’t think anyone really knows. Negative space is just a cultural artifact that those who are aesthetically woke, accept...
REAL FORMS
The forms that we generate with Transparent Drawing are real forms. They are not abstract. They are not ideal. They are not actual.They are not schematic. Now, you might think that the five statements above amount to...
OPERATIONAL DRAWING
I happened across this site, called APK Concepts, which I want to share with you. I was looking for more information on Margaret Morris’ book, Notation of Movement, and this was in the...
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