DRAWN TO DESIGN 1
Drawn to Design, by Eric Jenkins, is a book about architectural drawing. I was not aware of the book when I started Transparent Drawing. It was thru a Linkedin connection that it was brought...
Tagged: FORM GENERATION
REGRESSION TO THE MEAN
I think that if I keep finding these psychologically oriented topics, I will need to create another category to this blog. I am finding that a psychological understanding of the client’s process something that...
FIGURE GROUND, A TRANSPARENT DEFINITION
Webster’s defines figure ground as follows: a property of perception in which there is a tendency to see parts of a visual field as solid, well-defined objects standing out against a less distinct background....
YOUR CLIENT’S BRAIN
We have been considering what is happening when your client hates your design. We have discussed both emotional and logical responses of our clients. So it was with great interest to learn about a...
WHEN A CLIENT HATES YOUR DESIGN – TAKE 2
Robert, one of our far flung correspondents, takes exception to my thoughts about clients hating your design. (This link takes you to Robert’s comments, which are at the bottom of the page.) Robert has...
A TRANSPARENT PARADISE
Paul Scheerbart in 1914 wrote, “We live for the most part within enclosed spaces. These form the environment from which our culture grows. Our culture is in a sense a product of our architecture....
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...
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 /...
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...
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...
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