TRANSPARENT THUMBNAILS
I like social media better than I used to. Because of the interesting discussion that has sprung up on a small corner of LinkedIn, as I mentioned earlier, I am starting to see a...
Monthly Archive: February 2015
THE CHAPEL OF ST. IGNATIOUS
We visited Vancouver and Seattle last week. We absolutely love to hit a city and then immediately start exploring it. And many times we don’t have a specific itinerary of places to visit and...
MATHEMATICAL DESIGN
Mathematics provides an interesting reflection on some of our favorite themes; knowledge, learning, abstraction, etc. Mathematics’ principal function is to problem solve. We use math if we need to know the area of a...
ELEMENTAL SHAPES
The square. The circle. The sphere. All are what we call elemental shapes, or elemental building blocks. Yet the primacy of these shapes and forms is merely our cultural construct. We are attracted to...
THE FOURTH DIMENSION
To this point, we have concerned ourselves with drawing in three dimensions. We have discussed some of the limitations of the linear renaissance perspective system. And believe it or not, another limitation of the...
APPROXIMATIONS
Ideas require mental images. If you don’t have the former, you don’t have the latter. But what are these ideas in our mind? How exact are they? How real are they? They are best...
DRAWING TO SAVE THE WORLD
We have shown that thinking requires mental images. Images contain thought and visual facts. Therefore our drawings are hugely important. They are a testament to a logical and rigorous construction. If we consider that...
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