Sketching is a deep part of me - as essential to myself as my right hand. Not many people see my sketchbooks, but once in a while someone will one and ask for pointers or drawing lessons. This blog post is a travel sketch lesson and case study I did as a tourist in my own hometown - a step by step instructional documentation of my sketch process for a building I’ve been meaning to sketch for years....
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How Balancing Contrasting Methods is Crucial to The Design Process. I often evaluate my design process to help understand myself, but also plan for future projects. Sometimes I analyze my process during, but mostly after I'm designing a product. I have concluded that a key component of my design process is to balance opposing forces. This blog post outlines five contrasting ideas that I balance during design: Forced/Natural: My goal is to let a design be what it wants to be, rather than forcing it into something pre-conceived, but the challenge is how to find what the design wants to be. Occasionally, when I stumble...
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We are pleased to announce that Eric Jacoby Travel Sketches will be featured at Utah Center for Architecture - Architects as Artist Gallery on April 18th, 2019. The event will be in conjunction with Architecture Week.
Further Reading:
Simple trips on making a travel sketch
Perspective drawing basics
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Do you know about Utah Center for Architecture (UCFA)? UCFA’s mission is to support education and initiatives focused on contemporary architecture as well as Utah’s architectural past, urban environments and created landscapes...
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A few years ago, my (five year old at the time) son asked me to help him build a toy. We went out to workshop and I asked “so what should we build?” He wanted to build a Star Wars AT-AT (Imperial Walker). I told him to draw a picture and he jotted down this sketch...
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The Japanese Torii is symbolic of the transition from the mundane to the sacred. It is also the inspiration for our Tectonic Dining Table...
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