THROW OUT THE GARBAGE
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...
Monthly Archive: July 2015
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....
SMELLS LIKE MALIC MOULDS
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...
WHEN A CLIENT HATES YOUR DESIGN
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...
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 /...
HEARILIZATION IS NOT A WORD
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...
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