PAINTER’S TAPE
I’ve become fascinated with the form generation potential of painter’s edge tape. If you have done any painting, you are no doubt aware of this product. It is typically blue, comes in different widths,...
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TRANSPARENT DRAWING in a growing world of visualization
Guest Author – Jim Barnes (James David Barnes) — 11th April 20201 James Barnes is a practicing architect living in Dallas, TX. He has written extensively on representation, how we see, the perspective, etc....
DUCHAMP IS THE ORACLE
I keep coming back to Duchamp. Even as my reading and research continues to widen, Duchamp is the oracle. For example, I was re-skimming Tomkin’s absolutely excellent biography on Duchamp. I opened the book...
KRYLON TRANSPARENCY
Spray paint transparency. This is the new Transparent Drawing Assembly that I have begun to draw with. Your first thought might be, how can spray paint that comes from an aerosol can produce transparent...
JUST DO IT
I don’t want you to just read the book. I want you to just do it. My sincere appreciation and thanks to those of you who have a copy of Transparent Drawing thus far....
AUTHENTICITY IS THE NEW BEAUTY
If it is true that there is no bad drawing, then what about beauty? Authenticity is the new Beauty. Authenticity is the sui generis of the visual idea. We’re not talking about the authenticity...
BOOK DELAYS
I’m sorry, but I need to jump in here with a Transparent Drawing book delivery update. This is prompted by a reader who just wrote to me saying that they canceled their order with...
DIAGRAM VS. REPRESENTATION
A diagram is a drawing that explains how something works. The antonym of diagram is representational. Diagram and Representation. With these two words, we arrive at the heart of the problem. I find it...
THE PERSPECTIVES
Quick: how many perspective drawing systems are there? You might immediately answer “two…no wait, three.” Ching, for example, lists the one and two point system. If you get adventurous, you might go for a...
RETURN TO DRAWING
The web pages titled Return to Drawing caught my attention. It is a beautiful expose on analogue drawing. Rick and Cindy Black, Architects in Austin, are the authors. Their approach to drawing can be...
IF SOL LEWITT DREW HOLISTIC FORMS
My first encounter with the wall drawings of Sol Lewitt was at Mass MoCA. That was something like 10 years ago. And I have only now realized something fundamental about Lewitt’s drawings: they are...
ROTATION FORM GENERATION
Rotation Form is a new generation mode. It is very simple. Draw a form. And then rotate it one or more times. With this repetitive overlay of form, you get an armature to use...
KNOWLEDGE STATE
What is your knowledge state? We live in a time where knowledge is now downloadable. Enter any question into Search, and multiple lingual answers are immediately returned. Enter any image into Search, and multiple...
DRAWING PLEIN AIR
I love to see people sketching outdoors. When I see people drawing plein air, I almost want to run up and hug them. Of course, if I did that, I would end up in...
TIME OF SEEING
Transparent Drawing cannot exist without time. To understand completely a three dimensional form, a viewer must have, at minimum, at least two viewing points. The forms and objects that we are drawing are, for...
THE SHOCK OF THE OLD
When I see an architect’s office, I can’t resist looking in the window. And I always see analogue drawings scattered across desktops. There are usually computer generated representational color images on the walls. But...
ALL THE DESIGN DISCIPLINES
Transparent Drawing is for all the design disciplines. Industrial Design? We have touched on it at the page Industrial Designers Do It Better. And then recently, I covered the Olivetti Valentine typewriter: see Sotsass...
PRACTICE AND THE COMPUTER
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...
100% HUMAN
At Transparent Drawing, the only drawing that has value is one that is produced analogue. If the graphic is not 100% analogue, you can’t call it a drawing. See ANALOGUE DRAWING. And the...
DESIGN PROVENANCE
Where does the true value of a design lie? What constitutes the cultural value of a design? It is the Design Provenance. Provenance. That’s the best word I can come up with that quantifies...
ACT OF DRAWING
This is an excellent and concise meditation on the act of drawing: “Drawing is…at its most basic the product of no more than a pen or pencil taken to a sheet of paper. Any...
PROCESS AS DRAWING
Drawing is the recording of the intimate gestures of a body. All drawing correlates our movements with our mental clarity. As such drawing provides the one path to spiritual truth about life. It takes...
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