Monthly Archive: May 2015

STEPPING OUTSIDE OUR CULTURE 0

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...

TRUTH 0

TRUTH

To be any good, you need to be unselfishly dedicated to what is. In any design that we produce, it must respond to the truth of the forces that shaped it. This applies to...

THINK AHEAD OF THE ROBOTS 0

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 0

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 0

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 0

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 1

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 1

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 0

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...