Archive for the ‘Interesting Things’ Category

3D Sketching on a 2D Surface

Here’s an interesting concept from MIT’s media lab called “Beyond”. The sketches are pretty low fi, but the concept it downright interesting.The system uses a collapsible pen to essentially extrude or punch into the third dimension on the two dimensional surface. It’d be cool to see this with more resolution, refinement, pressure sensitivity, and all [...]

Pressure sensitive ipad sketching?

I’m on vacation and writing from the beach on my iPad but in read about this and just had to post about it! Ten One design, makers of the pogo sketch stylus many people use to sketch on their ipads, has just come up with a way to enable ores sure sensitivity on the iPad. [...]

Quick Tip: Sketching with a Mechanical Pencil

If you’re like me and love to sketch with pencil on occasion, it can be very hard to do while in an impromptu setting with traditional prismacolor or other pencils. You’d need a sharpener and a bevy of pencils if you want to keep sketching with a reasonably sharp pencil point. Here’s the tip: If [...]

Core77 Post: Scissor Project

I worked on this project SEVERAL years ago as a Sophomore in college, but it still was nice to see the project featured on Core77. Check out more about it in my Coroflot Portfolio if you’re curious.

iPad Sketch Gallery

iPad sketches fresh from Sketchbook Pro on the new Apple iPad

Practice Makes Better

A long time ago, 7 years ago this fall to be exact, I began my transition from Mathematics major in college to Industrial Design major. At the time, I had little drawing skills to speak of, however I was determined to get better. I cringe at showing this, but this a comparison of one of [...]

First sketch on iPad – Review Soon.

I must say, I’ve been really having fun with this thing! I do miss the pressure sensitivity at times, but it’s not THAT bad. I’ll post a more involved review hopefully later this weekend or some monday morning after I get into it a bit more. Feel free to leave questions in the comments section [...]

Guess who’s coming to iPad . . .

I’m SO Excited for this! Autodesk Sketchbook Pro and forScore Sheet Music App Coming for iPad – Mac Rumors.

Sketch-A-Day Roundup – Two Weeks or So…

Sooooo, I got a lil behind in um posting around here. Never fear. I’ve been wrapping up some major work projects and time’ll be freeing up a little bit more. In the mean time, here’s a massive post featuring some of the sketch work over at Sketch-A-Day.com (my little ongoing project). Share the link with [...]

Old School Flava on a Friday

From back in the day when computer equipment featured wood veneer paneling…here are some cool Atari concept sketches I found from the site Colorcubic. Check out the awesome marker techniques used by an old Atari industrial designer named Regan Cheng. I am diggin the marker and reflections on these!