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Best iPad and Tablet Apps for Architects
In the 13 months since this iPad app review was originally posted, use of tablets has grown to be nearly ubiquitous. The number of apps directed at architects has exploded! I’m an iPad user, so this...
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Print Making Venture
I’ve been enthusiastically making prints lately! Please check them out at this link: LK PRINTS All Images courtesy of Laura Kraft. Feel free to share any of these copyright-protected images, but...
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Best Tool for the Job
In the 21 months since I posted ”Why I Prefer Using a Pencil” on 2H Pencil, technology has marched on. We’ve been through slightly more than one cycle of the phenomenon described by Moore’s Law, that...
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When We Work Together, What Should You Bring to the Design Process?
Bring problems, not solutions To get the most out of the design process, it is best to present me with a problem statement rather than a solution. Isolating the problem statement is easier said than...
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How Writing by Hand Benefits the Brain
Educator Ainissa Ramirez observes that…”those who are taking notes by hand are processing the information and representing it in a way that makes sense to them. They are learning…So in this age of...
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Who Are We?
Any ideas about where these faces are to be found, and who made them? Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Fig. 4 Fig. 5 Fig. 6 Fig. 7 All images by Laura Kraft. Feel free to share the content of this posting, but...
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Grotesques
This post is an answer to question posed in the previous blog post: Q. “Who are we?” A. We are grotesques, inlaid into the terra cotta floor of the Reading Room in the Laurentian Library, in...
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Color Options
My client chose a particular rich dark green siding and black window trim for their Craftsman bungalow. I presented them with options for the remaining trim and door colors. Then I made this quick GIF...
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Heptagon
Mass-market example of a rarely seen seven-sided shape, the heptagon. Feel free to share the content of this posting, but please provide a link back to 2H Pencil. I invite your comments.Filed under:...
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The Death of Drawing?
I applaud Sophia A. Gruzdys, the author of this review, for taking a stand against this book’s argument that drawing is no longer a viable tool for architects. Read the review: The Death of Drawing:...
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New Toy
A while back, when I taught art in a high school, I conducted an experiment in moving lines from the paper into the air. In the library, we researched and made line drawings of insects and other small...
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2H or Not 2H
Conversation about digital vs. manual drawing, between me, Laura Kraft (L) and fellow Seattle artist/architect Anita Lehman (A), co-posted on Anita’s blog Anita H. Lehmann, Artist. L: I have seen on...
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Color Options
My client chose a particular rich dark green siding and black window trim for their Craftsman bungalow. I presented them with options for the remaining trim and door colors. Then I made this quick GIF...
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Spirals
It is Winter now, but Spring is right around the corner. Looking back at this picture of a tulip, unfurling from the ground in front of my house a few Aprils ago, got me thinking about spirals. Many...
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Doing Garden Design, part 1: Analyze This
(a 6-part series) 1996 2016 A garden constantly changes over time. So, too, does the gardener. And (lately), so does the climate. After 3...
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Doing Garden Design,...
In the previous post, the initial step in my garden design was to compile and analyze a lot of data, and to make many lists. Now, it’s time for pencils and paper, to bring unformed ideas into physical...
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Doing Garden Design, part 3: Field Notes
As summer’s yard work draws to a close, I offer the following garden-related “notes-to-self” that have been scribbled in my journal during the season. fatsia berries PLANT CARE Consider and then use...
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The Importance of The Sketch in Renzo Piano’s Work
Link to article: The Importance of the Sketch
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