The design drawing language
Whereas writers write books using text, a designer creates ideas and products by using drawings and visual representations. Drawing is the designer’s language: he or she needs to visualize what does not yet exist yet. The field of expertise of ‘drawing and visualization’ serves as a tool for (1) exploration and development, (2) visual communication and (3) presentation.
Drawing represents the most flexible tool to explore (ideate, iterate, develop in general) serving as a way to elucidate and to reflect on first drafts. Skills in drawing and visualization are essential assets for a designer; he/she needs to be able to communicate and explain thoughts and concepts to clients and project team members.
The Drawing expertise includes both knowledge (effective ways of visualizing, theory of perspective, composition, colour, etc.) and skills (dynamics, motor, spatial awareness) and it serves both analysis (drawing cross sections, exploded views, scenarios, interaction) and synthesis (ideation, exploration, concepts, detailing). The drawing medium implicitly includes the designer’s signature and adds character and emotions to a proposal or direction.
The line of drawing courses
The group of drawing courses form a line, a specific program, in Dutch a ‘leerlijn’. Drawing courses relate to other drawing courses in specific ways, in order to offer consistency and coherency of methodology or tactics, and subsequent steps of complexity, of detail, or of smoothness and subtlety. Besides levels and consistency, the line of drawing courses offers a range of specific IDE topic related modules and courses.
Whereas writers write books using text, a designer creates ideas and products by using drawings and visual representations. Drawing is the designer’s language: he or she needs to visualize what does not yet exist yet. The field of expertise of ‘drawing and visualization’ serves as a tool for (1) exploration and development, (2) visual communication and (3) presentation.
Drawing represents the most flexible tool to explore (ideate, iterate, develop in general) serving as a way to elucidate and to reflect on first drafts. Skills in drawing and visualization are essential assets for a designer; he/she needs to be able to communicate and explain thoughts and concepts to clients and project team members.
The Drawing expertise includes both knowledge (effective ways of visualizing, theory of perspective, composition, colour, etc.) and skills (dynamics, motor, spatial awareness) and it serves both analysis (drawing cross sections, exploded views, scenarios, interaction) and synthesis (ideation, exploration, concepts, detailing). The drawing medium implicitly includes the designer’s signature and adds character and emotions to a proposal or direction.
The line of drawing courses
The group of drawing courses form a line, a specific program, in Dutch a ‘leerlijn’. Drawing courses relate to other drawing courses in specific ways, in order to offer consistency and coherency of methodology or tactics, and subsequent steps of complexity, of detail, or of smoothness and subtlety. Besides levels and consistency, the line of drawing courses offers a range of specific IDE topic related modules and courses.