I’ve come up with a great new digital interface. It’s called the Stickboard. This new product has been designed to eliminate your laptop’s keyboard by fitting directly over it. The Stickboard provides an analogue based feel as you control your digital devices. An entirely new protocol is defined by the manipulable sticks which comprise the […]
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27Dec
2016
ESPERANTO
2016
These pages, as our faithful readers know, and to the irritation of some, believe that visual communication is superior to the lingual. See NATIONAL WORDS. And we’re always looking for support in this belief; here is an example of that support. Joan Acocella writes in her New Yorker article Return to Babble, about a new […]
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21Dec
2016
GIFT SHOPS
2016
No coverage of an architectural icon would be complete without a review of the gift shop. And yes, there is a gift shop in the Barcelona Pavilion. When you stop to think about it, there is a perverseness to all of the gift shops in famous buildings. There was one in LaPedrera, Casa Battlo, and […]
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14Dec
2016
WINDEX
2016
I said I was going to do it, and I did it. A few pages ago, I mused about what might happen if you spray windex onto your paper. The drawing above is the result. I first did a quick drawing using the 36 Poetic Immortals as inspiration. I used a water soluble pen, which […]
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12Dec
2016
WATER SOLUBLE PENCILS 3
2016
I thought this might work. I did the thumbnail above more or less absentmindedly, and noticed that the water soluble pencil soaked up the water. In a more or less non thinking manner, I made a rectangle with a light red wash. Then I used a water soluble pencil to make a few marks. And […]
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9Dec
2016
GREAT CLIENTS
2016
We are adept, as a profession, about describing Great Buildings. But what about Great Clients? This occurred to me as I sit here in Lisbon and make another drawing of Casa Battlo. The previous page introduces Casa Battlo. As a result of touring the house yesterday, I learned that this was for one Barcelona family. […]
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