Drafting, Modeling and 3D Printing with Lydia Sloan Cline
Hand drafting for Interior Design, SketchUp, Autodesk 123D and MakerBot
Back in the 80’s, this was the standard design graduate’s portfolio. Well, it was mine, at any rate. We hand-drafted our work with ink on Mylar and took it to a shop to have it photographed and printed onto 8 Continue reading Portfolios, Then and Now
A couple of years ago my family vacationed to China (Beijing and Shanghai). The Great Wall and the Forbidden City were fun and all, but I was particularly intrigued by the fakes malls. I knew lots of fakes come from Continue reading China and the Fakes Market
I attended SIDLIT (Summer Institute on Distance Learning and Instructional Technology) this year. It’s put on by Colleague2Colleague and always has lots of good seminars. I attended ones on making short videos, using SketchUp in the classroom, and a university’s Continue reading SIDLIT
Isn’t this a great spiral? I snapped this photo at the Holiday Inn in St. Thomas. It will be the stairs chapter opener in the 2nd edition of my book Architectural Drafting for Interior Designers.
The 2nd edition of Architectural Drafting for Interior Designers got mailed off today! And it’s a good one. Enhanced worksheets -some were fixed, others thrown out, new ones added, better instructions written. Lots of beautiful sketches -pencil, color, and a Continue reading And it’s off!
The concept of figure/ground, or positive/negative shape, is taught to all design students. This is a perceptual organization that assigns edges to areas. It allows us to read imagery and discern shape, hence decide what we think the picture shows. Continue reading Figure/Ground
A question I’m often asked by students working on projects is, “What should I include?” While knowing project requirements and instructor preferences is important, even more important is the ability to try to answer your own questions. For instance, when assigned Continue reading Independence of Thought
This is a drafting class at Colorado College around 1905. See the triangle and tool kit on the front student’s desk – manual drafting hasn’t changed all that much!
Comments from the copyeditor, comments from reviewers …everyone has an opinion. Getting a book out is no mean feat.