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Architectural Sketching [or How to Sketch like Bob] | Life of an Architect

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Home / Graphics / Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Bob Borson — April 7, 2014 — 70 Comments Architectural sketching is becoming a thing of the past – at least that’s how it seems to me most days.

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Sketch Paper | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Home / Heard around the architectural studio / heard around the architectural studio #010 I can’t find any sketch paper. It is a sketching paper but most importantly, it’s a tracing or better term, refining paper that allows you to work something out by layering tracing paper over it. What do you need it for?

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Fashion designer Mary Quant dies aged 93

Deezen

In 1963, the designer launched a range of mini skirts and dresses for her first boutique's lower-priced ready-to-wear range called Ginger Group, attracting young women who wanted more affordable modern clothing than what most designers were offering. She would draw the daisy whilst making her sketches in order to let her ideas flow.

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NEPAL & INK

Shades of Grey

Is there anything in our modern culture to hold a candle to this exuberance? Fast forward to 2012. Experimenting with digital sketching tools. How to get the spontaneity of hand sketching into the digital world and back again, seamlessly? And of course the water spouts and ponds, rectangular, stepping down in terraces.

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#ArchiSketch | Life of an Architect

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Home / Blog / #ArchiSketch #ArchiSketch Bob Borson — June 23, 2014 — 22 Comments As an architect, I tend to communicate through sketching – which is starting to make me a bit of a relic. The rest of my afternoon is starting to look up – all that’s missing is a beer Hashtags used: #sketching.

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Photo's #frommydesk | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

December 1st, 2011 “ good times – not taking calls – deadline approaching – music playing “ February 9th, 2012 “ poor Cubebot … wrong place, wrong time “ May 13th, 2012 “This is what I’m doing … what are you doing?” on my project notes” #sketch.

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Tales of the City: artist Ed Gray’s paintings of London celebrate everyday encounters

The Spaces

Gray only works from sketches and refers to his collection of provisional pencil and charcoal drawings to produce the final work in the studio. ’ The first Lido painting was done in 2012, and while he’s seen Ricky many times since, Gray had never met him until now. Ricky was just another stranger inhabiting his canvas.

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