I really like completing a drawing and then posting it the same day. Somehow, the immediacy of this action is better than posting a drawing done say two years ago. I was thinking about malic moulds because of previous posts as well as because of the input of our far flung correspondent, Robert, on the […]
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30Jul
2015
WHEN A CLIENT HATES YOUR DESIGN – TAKE 2
2015
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 been a fervent supporter of Transparent Drawing since day 1. So I want to see if I can try again with […]
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27Jul
2015
A TRANSPARENT PARADISE
2015
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. If we wish to raise our culture to a higher level, we are forced for better or for worse to transform […]
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23Jul
2015
SMELLS LIKE MALIC MOULDS
2015
Malic Moulds are, of course, what Duchamp calls the forms he “drew” on his Large Glass. Given my almost fetishistic interest in Duschamp, I have a term that I use when the forms on my piece of paper seem sort of Duschampian. I call the drawing, Smells Like Malic Moulds. The two drawings on this […]
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20Jul
2015
WHEN A CLIENT HATES YOUR DESIGN
2015
Clients base their design decisions on their emotions. As Kahneman tells us, the basic questions going thru people’s heads while you are presenting your designs is very base. Do I like it? Do I hate it? And how strongly do I feel this like or hate? These are very powerful emotions. And this like / […]
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15Jul
2015
PUTTING MY MONEY WHERE MY MOUTH IS
2015
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 drawings of Amy Sillman. Type Amy Sillman into Google Images. I’m not sure how her work came to my attention. Yet […]
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13Jul
2015
THE FIRST TRANSPARENT DRAWING?
2015
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 many forms that I generate have either an overt or subtle Duschampian overtone. It took me awhile, but it slowly dawned […]
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9Jul
2015
EMOTIONAL FORMS
2015
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 and relevant forms. That’s the whole point, itsn’t it? And we want these forms to be emotional. We want an emotional […]
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6Jul
2015
MISSING ASSOCIATIONS
2015
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 / design education and dialogue. So it was with great interest that we happened upon an exhibit in the Metropolitan Museum titled […]
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2Jul
2015
HEARILIZATION IS NOT A WORD
2015
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 visualization. Yet before the music is put together, before the music is heard, there is some sort of phenomenon. And I […]
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