A LECORBUSIER MINDSET
LeCorbusier itemized, in his Five Points Towards a New Architecture, his basic planning principals on how to approach design. The first four points address the structure, roof gardens, open plans, and horizontal windows, all...
Monthly Archive: June 2015
FAMOUS CREATIVE MINDS
Noguchi tells us, “Primarily, what we carry around with us is a memory of our childhood, back when each day held the magic of discovering the world.” It seems to me that there are...
KNEE JERK DESIGN
As should be clear by now, representational drawing is by definition based on the exclusion of information. Opaque objects hide what’s behind them. And what you can’t see, you can’t process. Kahneman, in Thinking...
LIPPITY LANGUAGE
One of the core beliefs of Transparent Drawing is the primacy of the visual. Another core belief is that the scientific and artistic methods are identical. Here is a link to a past post...
FAMILIAR HURT
Humans are very comfortable with the familiar. There is the old adage that we are creatures of habit. And I would surmise that this is entirely true. We are comfortable with the tried and...
INFINITY IS SILLY
The linear perspective represents infinity. In a one point perspective drawing, the vanishing point is infinity. When you think about the fact that infinity is represented on your paper with a pencil dot, it...
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