Drawing Ideas

A Hand-Drawn Approach for Better Design

Baskinger Mark, Bardel William

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This book focuses on the three key types of drawing, explanatory sketches, notational sketches and visual narratives that help designers think through and communicate their ideas. Through these three fundamentals, "Drawing Ideas" provides a thorough course in creating clear graphic layouts and diagrams, including expressive human forms, thumbnailing a process, adding effective colour and text and more. In addition, a drawing boot camp provides a refesher course in accurately drawing geometric forms. By getting back to the basics, readers will not only benefit from updated freehand drawing skills, but will also succeed in presenting and explaining their drawings and designs to others.

About the Author

Mark Baskinger is an associate professor at the Carnegie Mellon School of Design, teaching courses in interaction and industrial design. His work has been featured in design publications and international magazines and has been exhibited in MOMA. He has won numerous awards from ID Magazine and the Industrial Designers Society of America.

William Bardel is the principal owner of Luminant Design, a design firm in New York that specialises in information design and wayfinding. With 14 years of experience at various design firms, William has written articles on design that have been featured in several books and publications and has lectured internationally on design technology and wayfinding.

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