Mechanical Pencil

Mechanical Pencil

Illustrating the Engineering Around Us

Drawabox | A free, exercise based approach to learning the fundamentals of drawing

A free, exercise based approach to learning the fundamentals of drawing. We tackle drawing in a logical, analytical fashion inspired by concept artists and industrial designers, focusing on technical skills that can be developed with hard work and determination.

paint: a timeline — Kristen Roos

This timeline is the result of researching the origins of digital paint and draw software, and the tools that were developed to allow for hand manipulation (versus plotter drawn) drawing and painting - the mouse, light pen & drawing tablet. If we look at the software that has become commonplace today (such as adobe photoshop), which allows for painting, animation and photo manipulation in one, we can trace the roots of this software to the University and Corporate Labs that housed large computers with advanced capabilities for their time - MIT Lincoln Labs & Radiation Labs, DARPA & the Augmented Research Centre (ARC), Bell Labs, NYIT’s Computer Graphics Lab, Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre (Xerox PARC), NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs (JPL). The artistic collaborations that grew out of these labs fueled the advent of Computer Graphics, Computer Art and Video Art from the 1960's to the 1990's.

an elegy for the pencil

how computers changed the way we write

Smart Disorganized Individuals: SpimeScript

These days, I'm thinking a lot about 3D printers, desktop manufacturing and software to create physical things. Last year I did some art...

Tipographia

Visual archive of graphic design, typography and things printed in Portugal. A collection by...

INTDEV

A frontier design lab in Seattle, WA

Home : Random Geekery

Did you know you can buy some of those drawings on shirts, mugs, stickers, tapestries, etc? It's true! You can find my designs on Threadless and Design By Humans

DynaDraw - A Dynamic Drawing Program

The program Dynadraw implements a dynamic drawing technique that applies a simple filter to mouse positions. Here the brush is modeled as a physical object with mass, velocity and friction. The mouse pulls on the brush with a synthetic rubber band. By changing the amount of friction and mass, various kinds of strokes can be made. This kind of dynamic filtering makes it easy to create smooth, consistent calligraphic strokes.

Claude and Paper - Peter Van Dijck's homepage

I've always done a lot of engineering work on paper, figuring out relationships, page layouts, models, UX etc.