Visual Notes for Architects and Designers 2nd Edition is a completely updated step-by-step guide to capturing experiences in sketch format. Recording ideas and observations primarily in pictures instead of words can help designers become more creative and constructive on the job, no matter what your level of artistic ability. This book features completely new coverage of visual note-taking in a digital world and demonstrates how to make rapid, notational sketches that serve as visual records for future reference, as well as improve understanding and facilitate the development of ideas. It shows how to expand knowledge of a subject beyond what is gained through observation or verbal representation alone and provides access to simple techniques for collecting, analyzing and applying information. Finally, the book examines the relationship between note-taking, visualization and creativity and gives practical guidance on how to develop visual acuity (the ability to see more in what you experience); visual literacy (expressing yourself clearly and accurately with sketches); graphic analysis (using sketches to analyze observations). Numerous examples demonstrate some of the many uses of visual notes and help develop a keener awareness of environments, solve design problems, and even get more out of lectures and presentations. The book also discusses types of notebooks suitable for taking visual notes.
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