Decrease the metaphor quotient in your drawings. The more directly your drawings relate to the problem you are working to solve, the less of a metaphor they are, and the lower your metaphor quotient. A vast majority of the drawings that designers draw have a very high metaphor rating. So many design drawings that we […]
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27Jan
2016
VIRTUAL PENCIL AND BRUSH
2016
More thoughts on evolving digital drawing interfaces. SensAble Technologies, a digital interface company operating in the 1990s, manufactured a handheld controller which gave users the virtual sensation of actually touching onscreen objects. In their Phantom interface, you would put your fingers into sewing sized thimbles, and it felt like you were touching the object. So […]
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25Jan
2016
MESSY DESIGN
2016
The robotics revolution is upon us. Reports and predictions continually express great concern that the machines will take over. While some robotic systems strive for artificial intelligence, others are geared to intelligence augmentation. Robotic vehicles will eliminate the need for drivers. Much automobile assembly is already robotic. Much of what physicians do will be replaced […]
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22Jan
2016
SUI GENERIS
2016
Dubuffet, as reported by Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker, educates us on the Art Brut movement which the artist Dubuffet championed. While I have not had a chance to see the Dubuffet show at the Folk Art Museum, the points that Mr. Schjeldahl emphasizes in his article are relevant. Dubuffet was chiefly concerned with […]
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20Jan
2016
ANDO IN WILLIAMSTOWN
2016
We willingly go far and wide to see museums. So it was great to see a museum practically in our back yard; Ando’s addition to The Clark in Williamstown. These pages have addressed the work of Tando Ando. We analyzed his Church of the Light. We took a look at his Church On The Water. […]
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18Jan
2016
PICASSO AT MOMA 2
2016
Used to be, when I would see a show like the Picasso Sculptures currently at MOMA, my attention would be superficial, for lack of a better term. That is to say, I would look at the forms representationally. I would see with very little understanding. Now, because I know I will be drawing many of […]
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15Jan
2016
PICASSO AT MOMA 1
2016
How could there be such free composition, such deft assembly, and such humor? In every piece? This show has to be considered the motherlode. I believe that the entirety of modernism, if not the artistic output of humanity, is condensed in this show. Everything is here. Classicism. Assembly. Decomposition. Whatever term your pet cultural attribute, […]
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13Jan
2016
PSYCHOLOGICAL GROWTH IN BUILDINGS
2016
Psychological growth is never part of a building program. Have you ever discussed with your clients the potential for emotional development or increasing personal freedom? I have yet to discuss with my clients the inevitable psychological growth that will occur within the structures that I design. The potential for psychological growth was never broached in […]
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11Jan
2016
MARTIN PURYEAR
2016
I had the highest hopes for this drawing show at the Cooper Hewett. The New York Times review was titled “Martin Puryear, Multiple Dimensions.” From this review, “His commitment to three dimensions endures even when he’s working in only two.” So I thought, great, I can’t wait to see what the multiple dimensionality of Mr. […]
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8Jan
2016
SHELLS
2016
“Everything that has form has a shell ontogenesis, and life’s principal effort is to make shells.” 1. We have used the word envelope in these pages many times. We have stated that in the making of our transparent drawings, we are creating envelopes, or enclosures. The term Forclosure has been coined in these pages. Indeed, […]
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