Our friend Michael DiTullo has a busy schedule as Creative Director working at Converse. He has found some time however to throw together a nice little compilation of sketches/ideology with the book Analog Dreams. Here is an interesting excerpt from the writings of Mr. DiTullo: “There is nothing like the potential in a fresh stack [...]

I took with me a Pilot Fineliner pen and a Moleskin over the break…had a chance to do some very VERY gestural and scribbly looking Daytona Coupes.

Forums will be down for a bit. Working on some upgrades here and there, and trying to integrate facebook connect so more people can participate without having to register. Hopefully this will get more of you on board . Thanks again for your patience, and I’ll tell you more of what’s ahead in the days [...]

I’m rolling out some pretty comprehensive changes over the next few days, and weeks, and rather than shut down the site, I thought I’d warn everyone before that happens. I apologize ahead for any shock and awe you may experience during the changes. I’ll post more fully on changes once everything is implemented, but all [...]

Michael Roller, an educator and designer, and friend of mine, posted some great and interesting tips about sketching on his blog recently – Always warm up, Always pin up, and Always cheat. Obviously, I’m a huge fan of them (elkse why would I be posting about them), but more the first two than the third. [...]

In an industry being so dominated by men, it is interesting to get the point of view from some of the lovely women who work with us. It is estimated that the females make up aproximately 20 percent of the industrial design professionals. Many of these women in the industrial design community have unique perspectives [...]

Thanks again to all who participated and made this an interesting competition. We’re excited to post this work and hope that those who participated (submission or not) have had an opportunity to learn and grow. We’ll be having more open  competitions in the near future.

Congratulations to Steve Casper! (Headplow) on winning this summer’s idsketching.com Sketch/Design Challenge. Our runner ups are Steve Boynton and Churu Yun, who each will be receiving a copy of Sketchbook Pro. Special thanks to Wacom technologies and Autodesk for Sponsoring this competition. Steve will be receiving a Wacom Intuous4 tablet as his prize. First Place [...]

Thanks for all the awesome entries for the competition. It’ll be some fierce judging for sure. Once the judging has taken place, we’ll post ALL the work winners and non winners to the front page of the site. There was some good effort by many people. We’ll try to have more competitions in the future [...]

Our friends over at Core 77 are sponsoring a one hour design competition based on ideation sketching. They want to see the most sketches you can possibly crank out on the topic of your choice in 60 minutes. This would be a great way to get some summer practice in before school is back in [...]