tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69932146086511400812024-03-13T13:49:38.914-07:00Spatial Relationsjencandrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767050932897346511noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993214608651140081.post-39518179918816499412022-04-25T16:15:00.000-07:002022-04-25T16:15:22.066-07:00Judge John's Dead End<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtWHjRkzcNodlGFXUoAfY3HZRUaZT34obEl4l9-TubtP92Pd0eLcRF0U1lTOfvpDL2buc3F0YP_0SLdRkTm5ZhQohvig5JZ-xJHU6h_0g3uoFSi6zflYChxUeShMew4qLXhJs83WdbWRIr88oqEacFqfejv0A1r3oCkn22kpSAUG2OTU0s92GVmQ/s640/A5914A27-8FE1-405E-B7E8-A843FAF781C4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="640" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtWHjRkzcNodlGFXUoAfY3HZRUaZT34obEl4l9-TubtP92Pd0eLcRF0U1lTOfvpDL2buc3F0YP_0SLdRkTm5ZhQohvig5JZ-xJHU6h_0g3uoFSi6zflYChxUeShMew4qLXhJs83WdbWRIr88oqEacFqfejv0A1r3oCkn22kpSAUG2OTU0s92GVmQ/s320/A5914A27-8FE1-405E-B7E8-A843FAF781C4.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD3p0y3dUk1PDZRkCK60cXecaxV0xa2_oIIH5L1xLp4lqT9m-lAKXTUm63ktnzXWZjufFwfNFC0FDu_okwZ320IHf9DG2V7MBAtJxmVWPTxDaf1tonzHqq0bRm9hGp6k9hq4Z-LFL6oNoU_X9An2Ajybf9R_r1luA5KbOpWYYD5bj55aGPlGmncg/s640/D467298C-1F2D-48F8-9D81-F89B2C551853.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="584" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD3p0y3dUk1PDZRkCK60cXecaxV0xa2_oIIH5L1xLp4lqT9m-lAKXTUm63ktnzXWZjufFwfNFC0FDu_okwZ320IHf9DG2V7MBAtJxmVWPTxDaf1tonzHqq0bRm9hGp6k9hq4Z-LFL6oNoU_X9An2Ajybf9R_r1luA5KbOpWYYD5bj55aGPlGmncg/s320/D467298C-1F2D-48F8-9D81-F89B2C551853.jpeg" width="292" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">It's been a while. Holding space for an essay about a new park in Oakland --if it loads OK from my mobile.</span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>jencandrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767050932897346511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993214608651140081.post-35132888247403809432020-12-31T20:06:00.000-08:002020-12-31T20:06:04.980-08:00Outro for 2020<p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWOWEpsD9EuXKoCJ9_QHuSzTpzR_eMrYBh_AjVNFCuVpP3akIuvcFg5wZu-WxYZ5_pWfy89wMuRkBQqUv7Ljv78tigp8Y5Kb8vChr3xbCr0bKTMD4q6AuDSRWCtGSmhyphenhyphenyfCAyMKcxbKA/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1442" data-original-width="2048" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWOWEpsD9EuXKoCJ9_QHuSzTpzR_eMrYBh_AjVNFCuVpP3akIuvcFg5wZu-WxYZ5_pWfy89wMuRkBQqUv7Ljv78tigp8Y5Kb8vChr3xbCr0bKTMD4q6AuDSRWCtGSmhyphenhyphenyfCAyMKcxbKA/w400-h281/PtMolate_xmas_C.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; 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font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a clean turtle island,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="color: #821650; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a newborn queen,</p><p class="p1" style="color: #821650; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(a washboard instead of this belly.)</p><p class="p1" style="color: #821650; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Let’s belt<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="color: #821650; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>hella ballgames</p><p class="p1" style="color: #821650; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to stadiums full,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="color: #821650; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Then be quiet while eelgrass and birds teach us<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="color: #821650; 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margin: 0px;">Let’s yodel and yarn now and yammer all winter.</p><p class="p1" style="color: #821650; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Write repair-songs for rifts made by tweet.</p><p class="p1" style="color: #821650; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Come next fall may we all remove covid’s splinter</p><p class="p1" style="color: #821650; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And together, with families complete,</p><p class="p2" style="color: #821650; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="color: #821650; 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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />A good group of designers has signed up for <a href="http://candraw.net/figures/">Figures for Design</a> this month! My challenge is to identify and preserve each person's stroke style <i>and</i> give guidelines for proportion and level of detail. Everyone possesses a stroke style, whether they identify as being able to draw or not. Like other behaviors, stroke style can be discerned and incrementally modified. Above is one phase past <i>paperclip people</i> on the workshop's path toward identifiable figures that communicate ideas without drawing attention away from the design itself. </span>jencandrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767050932897346511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993214608651140081.post-36743428077150216272017-03-13T14:32:00.000-07:002017-11-29T11:59:58.936-08:00Gullible Travelers<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />Sunday. I persuaded a friend to do a 7.5 mile hike in Marin. I wanted so badly to get out after the rains and try these Daniel Smith pigment sticks that I mis-read the distance to Alamere Falls: yes, 7.5 miles --<i>one way</i>. I also failed to register the meaning </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of a dirt road lined with cars </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">on the satellite picture. There would be crowds. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We ended up </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">picking over</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> muddy trails, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">single-file </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">with every other politically-traumatized and rain-fatigued local.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">More than enough hours had passed, y</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">et we had no sense of being anywhere near the shore. I consulted the map and realized my error: we'd be taking our wintersoft bodies <i>twice</i> as far as anticipated. Deal! Doubling-down is <i>in</i> these days. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As we neared what just </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">had</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> to be the descent to the falls, some of the earlier-risers were heading back, toward us. Our file stood aside and asked, </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How far to the falls?</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>It's closed</i>, a big dude answered. For a tired nanosecond, we long-marchers believed him! After all, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for the past 4 months, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we'd been sheltering indoors, hearing bad-upon-bad news. It's a National Park; <i>could</i> <i>they...</i>?? The landscape colors and the sounds of the Pacific beyond pounded sense into us. We chuckled sheepishly and marched on.</span> </div>
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<span face="">I get to geek out on linear perspective as a guest lecturer for Whitney Davis' proseminar in Art History. </span><span face="">The</span><span face=""> first time I covered linear perspective among art historians, I suggested there may be no deeper reason to omit the more distant floor grid in this panel of <a href="http://www.infoflorence.com/Photo/Baptistery/View%20from%20the%20outside%20with%20the%20Gates%20of%20Paradise%20big.jpg">Florence's baptistry</a> doors than Ghiberti's lack of tinier tools. <i>Tool size limits the depiction of space</i>. Still true, even when the tool is modeling software. Why else would Pixar shell out for proprietary software? </span><div><span face="">In today's burgeoning visual culture, glitches in spatial depiction arise, and we are so early to this game that we lack the shared vocabulary </span><span face="">to describe them</span><span face="">. </span><span face="">Davis sets out to provide terms we can use to talk about how people depict and relate to images and <i>ideas</i> of 3D space. He is deep into it. </span><br />
<span face="">Today my goal is to persuade academics to draw simple perspectives and hope that through practice, they will sense the perceptive constraints one must accept to participate in this illusion...not unlike the beliefs we suspend when we pull on an Oculus headset. Regardless of tools & equipment, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Haytham" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Ibn al Hazen</a><span face="">, </span><span face="">10th c scientist and unwitting parent of linear perspective says the act of seeing may begin with light, form and eyes, but is only completed by the mind. <i>That</i> idea makes linear perspective more an interim translation of desire and less a stand-in for a deliverable product! </span></div>jencandrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767050932897346511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993214608651140081.post-92077520374082943182015-03-30T11:14:00.000-07:002017-04-17T10:48:36.813-07:00Above It All <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This classic Sesame Street video is a good plan-view earworm. Looking at a project in plan puts the viewer above it all. So do satellite pics. In paraline drawings, such as <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6993214608651140081#editor/target=post;postID=7299585740801609130;onPublishedMenu=posts;onClosedMenu=posts;postNum=0;src=postname" target="_blank">plan oblique</a> or elevation oblique, their third dimension is added diagrammatically, without any convergence of depth lines. The lack of convergence gives the illusion that the back plane is bigger than the front. Figures can be placed in these paraline drawings, but constructing the context is onerous, with little payoff. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On one project, the</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">production</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> team was persuaded to track their </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">design</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">process by means of plans and paraline views. There were some awkward surprises a year later when those who approved the project </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">based on perspective presentations</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> saw the final product. </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">How frequently do we experience a space from above, anyway? </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Like plan views, paralines don't take you INSIDE. At the most they provide a superior, detached point of view. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The blue wall is equally as wide as the orange wall in this elevation oblique<br />from Kevin Forseth. Optically, it appears larger.</span></td></tr>
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<br />jencandrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767050932897346511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993214608651140081.post-18828102169433818672015-03-29T12:49:00.000-07:002017-04-17T10:50:48.837-07:00People in Design 5.0 - Paralines - between orthographic and perspective<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">western drafted elevation oblique Japanese <i>gyaku enkinhou</i> visual narrative</span> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some visual cultures embrace a different relationship to dimensionality. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The <i>gyaku enkinhou</i> depictions of 3D space are like super-rich elevation obliques! </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am very fond of this Japanese spatial depiction on scrolls, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">particularly with the device used to show interiors, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>fukinuki yatai, </i>meaning</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <i>blow the roof off</i>. A scroll: what a thrilling means </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to unfurl an intimate story about very private figures in a highly stratified society! </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As early as the </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">10th c., s</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">uch voyeuristic experiences accompanied spatially-depictive poems on <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2006.570/" target="_blank">scrolls</a> and <a href="http://www.nagoyajo.city.nagoya.jp/13_english/13_05_events/230916.html" target="_blank">folding screens</a></span></span></span>. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They dwindled by the late 18th c., perhaps after heavy s</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">aturation of E</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">uropean linear perspective. See </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Suzuki Harunobu, who used </span><i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">fukinuki yatai,</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> often with an <a href="http://fcs246.weebly.com/uploads/8/5/7/9/8579741/lecture_9.14_axonometric_and_isometric.pdf" target="_blank">isometric paraline structure</a> in his many intimate </span><i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">ukiyo-e</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, popular 18th c. one-page poster prints.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<br />jencandrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767050932897346511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993214608651140081.post-13372571738296107542015-03-27T09:00:00.000-07:002016-06-21T11:46:22.686-07:00People in Design 3.0 - Try it on for size<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Master a believably proportioned, gestural figure, and you have a tool that does a LOT of work. Viewers more easily project themselves into the scene. Studying design ideas in elevation broadens the visualization process. It's efficient at showing depth via overlap. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rapid visualization by hand incorporates a different brain engagement than digital imaging, including sensed vibration of pen/pencil/brush across the page.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I like to explore how a design fits together this way. Although </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I love perspective sketches, I use figures and annotations frequently to communicate with colleagues while a project is in process. The sketch conveys an informal, temporary state, encouraging continued participation of interested parties. </span><br />
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<br />jencandrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767050932897346511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993214608651140081.post-90161562082738210692015-03-25T15:00:00.000-07:002018-06-28T15:03:16.801-07:00People in Design 2.0 - Elevation Storytelling<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, MS. lat.15158, fol.47. Dated 1289 CE.<br /><span style="text-align: start;">13th c. mass media communication</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Although merely 2 dimensional, figures in an elevation tell a more powerful story than figures on a plan. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They become our avatars in a given scene, and interact with the built environment. This time-tested storytelling works for communication of design ideas, including landscape, lighting and context, without having to take on a 3D model or provide data in all 3 dimensions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Through suggestions of clothing and interactions, figures in elevation communicate cultural and behavioral information about who is using the space, and how.</span><br />
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<br />jencandrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767050932897346511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993214608651140081.post-84743967382439129682015-03-23T13:39:00.000-07:002016-06-21T11:46:22.691-07:00People in Design 1.0 - Orthographics<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A couple weeks ago I was on a panel discussing people in architecture at the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley. It comes up again and again in design presentation classes. To the adult student who gave up on drawing around age eight, getting comfy with perspective sketching is a challenge; add figures to the mix and it's double jeopardy! </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yet despite the predominance of plans in design development, instruction for drawing our fellow humans in plan is rare! </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We draw 'em like we see 'em. In elevation. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some figure-drawing guidelines over the ages are below. What's not specified here is how they relate to one another, or to whatever the visual field represents.</span><br />
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<br />jencandrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767050932897346511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993214608651140081.post-42970445923835856562015-03-16T17:52:00.000-07:002016-06-20T12:13:03.863-07:00Above it all 5.0 What are those tiny things?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Figures in plan may cause the viewer some confusion before the scale </span></span></span>effect <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">sets in. </span></span></span>We don't often perceive our fellow humans from above. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To get a sense of scale, we'd</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> do better to </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">gauge the size of this </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">place</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> using what seem to be tables and chairs.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Cluster them at entries, around new information in plan or at featured design elements. Evenly spaced they may seem like texture. In the plan below, word labels and figures help tell the story of the activities in the space. Where the figures <b>overlap</b> shapes, the viewer also gauges heights of objects overlapped by figures.</span><br />
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jencandrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767050932897346511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993214608651140081.post-31439435530901636372015-03-13T17:52:00.000-07:002016-06-20T10:02:18.072-07:00Above it all 4.0 Pairing it down<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let's get down to the workhorse signifier in a plan: l</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ines.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1. Most abstractly, line in a plan makes a <i>feature distinction</i> between one side and the other, the way in linguistics, a single audio shift (vocalization) makes the difference between <b><i>p</i></b><i>ear</i> and <b><i>b</i></b><i>ear</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lines on a plan </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">describe boundaries </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that will </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">mediate movement and transactions. Like a sieve, a stairway, or a speed-bump, t</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hose boundaries </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">affect access to visual, acoustic and spatial events. The flow and behavior of weapons, vehicles, valuables, germs, and creatures, including people are mediated. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Line thickness and continuity convey meaning, too. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The nature of the boundary remains ambiguous until third-dimension data is supplied, usually via elevation, section, annotation</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> or a perspective drawing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For environmental design, considering plans through these abstract lenses helps to focus on problem-solving without being distracted by particular products or finishes. Next post tries out the most common connector an image makes between viewer and design.</span>jencandrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767050932897346511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993214608651140081.post-23892071327537641932015-03-11T18:36:00.000-07:002016-06-20T12:14:00.028-07:00Above it all 3.0 Anonymity and Superiority<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The viewer of a photo is automatically placed in the position of the camera; however, a</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">n aerial photo is an extreme variety. It foreshortens the height dimension so much that the image resembles a plan. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Viewers feel</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">above it all</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> without feeling specifically located, similar to the anonymity </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2D plans provide. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Like plans, aerial photos </span>also require additional help to effectively communicate spatial relations. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tourists who plan an easy walk from Levi's Plaza west to Coit Tower, will get a message from their bodies about what data is missing on the satellite pic above!</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anonymity, disengagement and superiority: some of the emotional color an aerial shot or a plan provides.</span><br />
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jencandrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767050932897346511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993214608651140081.post-83945874640458000832015-03-09T18:41:00.000-07:002016-06-20T12:14:25.884-07:00Above it all 2.0 Can you relate?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How about photos, then? Do photos work for maps? </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For communication of design ideas, s</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">haring </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a photo does not guarantee mutual understanding of the subject depicted. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Depending on the desired outcome, one may have</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> to add –or subtract– elements to make a story clearer to an intended audience. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This photo elicits my awe and admiration for the engineering of the Golden Gate Bridge. It may not engage the Egyptian brick-maker from the last post. He may have never seen a sea from on high, nor would he know that each of those light blobs can carry a family of six. What would he make of this image? If one could reach across a 3500-year culture gap, what </span><i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">addition</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> to this image would tell the brick-maker what's going on in this photo? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We think of photos as carrying <i>real</i> information, because a camera reports everything in its field of view. Sometimes that's no help. The same view in fog, at dawn, or at high noon looks very different. A photo is </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">merely a flat extraction of 3D data, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">w</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hether taken from a satellite, a roaming van, or the end of a laparoscope. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> an abstract field of texture and color, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>unless it</b> <b>indicates </b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>scale</b> or <b>depicts a</b> <b>familiar item</b> that gives the viewer a sense of his or her<b> </b>size in<b> relation to the scene</b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>The Garden</i>, fresco from <a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebamun" title="en:Nebamun">Nebamun</a> tomb, originally in Thebes, Egypt, now in the British Museum, London, U.K. Painting on plaster, 72 x 62 cm.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In a similar image-type, we read depth cues in the <i>overlap</i> between human figures, shore, water, and pottery for a short visual narrative about</span></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> extracting something from the pond. See below.</span></span></span><br />
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<br />jencandrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767050932897346511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993214608651140081.post-32157686021649871642015-02-04T11:42:00.000-08:002017-06-14T08:37:15.038-07:00Fitting in<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In my work drawing concepts for teams at different companies, I've had the opportunity to observe and participate in creative dynamics. Drawing pictures is nice. The interpersonal stuff makes </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">it very exciting. Even if a launch fails, that hive energy begets creative, proactive attitudes.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Over the years, teams spin off smaller units. Some go way outside the mothership.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Resiliency is good for the body and for business. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sometimes, due to pressure from non-creative partners or free-floating fear, teams </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">stop being proactive. Maybe a deep yearning for predictability, rooted in survival is speaking. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A few seasons of success lend the impression that <i>any</i> project can be planned and executed in Excel-type fashion. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That works when the spreadsheet has columns named </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">re-frame </i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and</span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </i><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">reality check</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">; </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and cells named </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">unknown</i><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">epiphany</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our new holy grail is the program that tidily snaps those categories on a spreadsheet. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One of Resiliency’s tight friends is Creativity; both resist the matrix. </span></div>
jencandrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767050932897346511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993214608651140081.post-5298756668174777882015-01-28T16:00:00.000-08:002017-06-14T07:57:58.558-07:00The long goodbye<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The continuous dry ground from summer into winter is a bonus for outdoor sketching; Pyrrhic advantage. I returned with charcoal to the dying pines on the Ridge Trail nearby. I take pics or draw ‘em. Their dying is such a long process! They are</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> stark, magnificent --yet hard to identify with </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">as a role model for dying. It's not Hollywood's one big bad scene, it's a years-long indignity, visible from all sides of the ridge. Bark slips off at a near-geologic pace. A broken limb catches on its ailing neighbor. Eventually the neighbor goes down.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last year,</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I hung several of these trees’ portraits downtown alongside portraits of the Palace Hotel: Wealth, two ways. SF architecture drawings sold; dead trees – not so much! Back to drawings of built space, happy customers, coordinated materials. The hired pen wants to wander. </span></div>
jencandrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767050932897346511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993214608651140081.post-64223040311637737592015-01-07T07:30:00.000-08:002017-06-14T07:33:34.988-07:00Not as Advertised<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The weather reports said no snow, so it was unusually crowded for after-Xmas. </span>Day-visitors in flip-flops. This is year #4 of drought. Yhe falls at Yosemite were reduced to a trickle this January, a</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> glaze of frost on an adjacent ledge.</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">NPS' f</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">oreign guests will post selfies of this and buy postcards of the falls the way they used to be. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My plein air excursion happened, but what a sorry sight. </span>jencandrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767050932897346511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993214608651140081.post-36846330463918034352014-06-24T10:30:00.000-07:002016-06-21T11:45:59.559-07:00Let's hang on
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am overwhelmed and speechless. I can only sing to him.</span></div>
jencandrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767050932897346511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993214608651140081.post-88523488712787145092014-06-06T18:30:00.000-07:002016-06-21T11:45:59.571-07:00Who’ll be the next in line?
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The #1 quick-fix to indicate “I’m in front!” is </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">overlap</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other depth cues on a flat surface include: <b>diminution</b> (getting smaller-ness), <b>convergence</b> and <b>upward position on field</b>. These 2D figures at San Francisco's Transbay Temporary Terminal keep a polite distance and staying within the boundary. For their work-weary audience, they model all the depth cues <i>but</i> overlap, in the hope that the audience for this sign will behave, in real space, accordingly. The figures don’t overlap <i>each other</i>; that might imply touching! How telling for our culture! The only overlap in this pic is that of shoulders covering the farther line boundary.</span></div>
jencandrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767050932897346511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993214608651140081.post-61696450534807231942014-05-23T16:30:00.000-07:002017-02-23T13:45:00.523-08:00Pieces of silver<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A pair of dead trees above Donner Lake. Their barkless flesh, iridescent in the bright sun, speaks of what they've endured: cold frosts, sparkling snow and the crackling heat of rainless summers. I am up here volunteering with wilderness first responders, play-acting hypothermia, impalements and frostbite. Government officials came here annually to plunge a measuring stick in a snowdrift to get an idea of how much water is coming down to the parched valley. Like last year, not a snowdrift in sight.</span></div>
jencandrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767050932897346511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993214608651140081.post-31212989814087245902014-05-14T11:00:00.000-07:002016-06-21T11:45:59.546-07:00Spring can really hang you up the most<div class="p1">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My mom sang this song well. She died about 18 months ago, so she won't be around to meet my first grandchild, who's soon to be born. I would never have guessed life would roll out at this rate! When I was little, I was fascinated by the <i>Life</i> magazine photo captioned, </span><a href="http://41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4e3kgfA111qbz9meo1_500.jpg" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“a thumb to suck, a veil to wear</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">”. As it does for old ladies and brides, a veil makes our tiny back yard more mysterious. Nevertheless, the spring-expectant colors pulse through. Still waiting.</span></div>
jencandrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767050932897346511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993214608651140081.post-33705370017124336122014-05-09T08:52:00.000-07:002016-06-21T11:45:59.552-07:00Plain Jane<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not-so-sketchy in Philly. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It’s nice to work out a storefront design on a background that looks closer to the site’s next permutation than the derelict facade that’s really here. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The plain jane storefront is cleaned up and wearing colors amenable to the next occupant. (I should not have included the blade sign; it’s bound to change.) Next up: back and forthing about window heights, visibility, building codes, etc. That's where having a sketch of the bigger context and a site plan helps.</span></div>
jencandrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767050932897346511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993214608651140081.post-20735375802204138632014-04-17T11:00:00.000-07:002017-02-23T14:38:20.165-08:00Bring in the fog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Aerial perspectives are a challenge. This detail is from full sheet size, 22" x 30", for a project that's likely to raise a lot of hackles. For conceptual illustrations where there is no architectural info available, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">context-obliterating clouds</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> of of Chinese and Japanese landscape style, <i>sansui-ga,</i> from the 15th c. is appealing. Only salient scenes would have to be drawn, with mist intervening where no design info is available. </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">In the 21st c, I have to invent built forms, continuous to the property line, where none may ever be built. </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The result of can be beautiful and give its viewer a sense of soaring.</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">That's great for fund-raising and approving boards of directors who may operate from a detached position. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">W</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hen no end-user will ever soar, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">is it disingenuous to sell an idea this way? Does it bridge or exacerbate the gap between end-user and promoter?</span>jencandrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767050932897346511noreply@blogger.com0