In an article in Psychological Science, as reported in the Times, researchers found that taking photos serves to increase your memory of the experience. The studies found that taking photos increases your engagement with what you are experiencing. Subjects who took photos of things had a more complete memory of the object compared with those […]
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28Aug
2017
KAWAKUBO AT THE MET
2017
We just saw the Comme des Garcons show at the MET. I am surprised by my emotional response to the show and how inspiring it is. This is a 20 year retrospective of Rei Kawakubo‘s groudbreaking fashion pieces. If you don’t know anything about her enormous influence on fashion (of which I was only very […]
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24Aug
2017
YOU’VE GOT TO START SOMEWHERE
2017
Picasso said, that when drawing, “You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.” That is a powerful thought, given that it applies to our continued search for the means and methods of form generation. We have mentioned before how it is sad that the paintings of modernist masters are not taught […]
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21Aug
2017
PRACTICE AND THE COMPUTER
2017
The computer pushes some people away from the practice of architecture. This thought evolved via a Facebook conversation with two Transparent Drawing followers. It had never occurred to me that the computer might turn designers off from architecture. Yet they both relate that their love of designing things was centered around drawing. It was about […]
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17Aug
2017
TRANSPARENT CUBISM
2017
Historians have divided Cubism into two segments. Analytic and Synthetic. Analytic Cubism happened at the beginning of the movement, including the years 1908-1912. The concepts of Analytic Cubism are central to Transparent Drawing. “It is termed analytical cubism because of its structured dissection of the subject, viewpoint-by-viewpoint, resulting in a fragmentary image of multiple viewpoints […]
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14Aug
2017
DRAWING LIGHT
2017
In Morocco, it is all about the light. We saw a couple of my attempts to respond to the Moroccan light with the drawings at the page Representational Transparency and Ordinary Building – Morocco. When light is such a dominant component, then one is tempted to draw representationally. After all, if we are drawing light, then the […]
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10Aug
2017
OPPENHEIMER
2017
Have you ever stopped to think what spatial and form processing facilities you are born with? “Typology is a study of those relationships that do not have to do with measure and size, but with shape and arrangement. Let me digress. We had here this year a French/Swiss psychologist, he is almost a philosopher, called […]
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7Aug
2017
DRAW LIKE A BYZANTINE
2017
A new phrase, Draw Like a Byzantine, has crept into these pages without any warning. Let’s try to formalize the meaning of this phrase so as to bring it into our lexicon. To Draw Like a Byzantine means to draw without any coherent sense of contiguous space. By that I mean that you need to […]
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4Aug
2017
ELIMINATE THE VANISHING POINT
2017
You want to Draw Like a Byzantine? Eliminate the vanishing point. Have you ever thought about the cultural hegemony of the act of placing the vanishing point on your paper? There you are, drawing so as to solve a problem. You draw to think. And then, plink. You place a vanishing point, or two, or […]
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2Aug
2017
REAL WORLD TRANSPARENT DRAWING
2017
I thought it would be fun to show a couple of real world Transparent Drawings. As long time readers know, I use Transparent Drawing on a daily basis in my office. I think transparently on paper. I make Transparent Drawings. And then I incorporate those drawings into design presentations to clients. And I don’t get […]
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