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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The Tectonic Toy Bee Design Process When we set out to design a bee, we decided that we wanted our Bee Toy to have interesting mechanics and a duality of simplicity and complexity. We didn’t want it to look mean (like a wasp), or worse: cute. We took some time studying different bees. We researched many diagrams and drawings, but Eric was happy to stumble across this amazing specimen on a hiking trail. The concept for our toy bee was for the wings to flap when the abdomen (stinger) is pulled by using mechanics which would invoke curiosity and expose the moving components -...
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How the stratified layers of Southern Utah influenced our Strata Chair Layers can tell the story of time. For example, the upper left image shows various layers that individually identify several recent projects in our workshop - the white layer occurred when we ran some foam insulation through our table saw. The time-frame of layers may be as ephemeral as our quick run of foam cutting - and sometimes layers can illustrate a much longer period of time. The word Strata connotes multi-million year epochs – consisting of geologic rock layers created by time and pressure. My favorite example of strata is the...
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