Sketches – Nathaniel Brooks
Matt Falco has been writing some great posts about architectural sketching. You can see them here and here. He’s also spoken highly of the website Urban Sketchers. I thought it might be nice for Blueprint for Design to start featuring some artists. So, our first feature is on Nathaniel Brooks. He and I worked together for a few years at BCA (now PSA Dewberry) in Elgin, Illinois. Nathaniel Currently works for Studio for Art and Architecture out of Brooklyn, NY. You can get in touch with him on Twitter or by visiting his page on LinkedIn. Enjoy his work!
Weekly Town Crier
After a long hard week, enjoy this list of random links that we feel you may want to check out. Some may involve design, some may involve small business and others may just be something random we find interesting. Keep checking our site each Friday to find out what inspires or interests us. Feel free to email suggestions.
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Great idea to get your digital camera returned.
Way cool blog worth following this summer.
If Matt could afford it, he would…
A designer’s guide to proposals and invoices.
A nice FREE Worpdress theme.
Back when Iron Man was a baby.
I’d push these buttons.
A cool FREE 3d program.
Don’t expand your business?
Matt thinks this band is quite intriguing.
Hockey Logos
As the Chicago Blackhawks are cruising through the playoffs I’ve been thinking about hockey a lot lately. After the popularity of a previous post on Minor League Baseball Logos, I wondered if other sports had unique minor league teams and logos. Much to my surprise there are some pretty cool logos in the world of semi-professional hockey.
This list is presented in alphabetical order. However, my three favorites are the Jackson Bandits, Manitoba Moose, and Stockton Thunder. (Honorable mention goes to the Windsor Spitfire.)
Alaska Aces
Weekly Town Crier
After a long hard week, enjoy this list of random links that we feel you may want to check out. Some may involve design, some may involve small business and others may just be something random we find interesting. Keep checking our site each Friday to find out what inspires or interests us. Feel free to email suggestions.
Follow us on Twitter.
Join our Flickr group.
That’s one way to end an argument.
Great post on flooring from a professional’s point-of-view.
Personality types of designers?
Only an architect would think this one up.
Some minimal web designs.
Mmmm mushroom burgers… (Matt)
How to land a job using LinkedIn.
Some architectural photography.
Saw him in concert last weekend. Amazing. (David.)
Freehand Sketching-Book Review
Today’s post is a book review of Freehand Sketching An Introduction.
I really like books that are compact. Ones that can travel with me. Don’t get me wrong. I have my favorite coffee table-architecture books, too. But, if I’m going to get something out of it. The book needs to travel with me. Freehand Sketching is compact and thin. It gets right to the point in the first few pages. I love it.
The writing style is purely instructional. Everything to get started sketching simple line drawings is the name of this book’s game.
I like it how the author, Paul Laseau, emphasizes the art of sketching. He doesn’t suggest you purchase some expensive pens or sketchbooks. He concentrates on the importance of practicing, training yourself to DRAW what you SEE. I admit, this is my biggest challenge. It’s difficult for me to not fill in the gaps, by drawing what I THINK I see.
I appreciate all the samples and exercises that are found throughout the book. Using found object to practice sketching. It reminds me of our drawing class, back in college.
Please check out this book. I first took it out of my local library, but it’s inexpensive and worth every penny!
Link to Freehand Sketching: An Introduction
photo credit: Tattershall
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After a long hard week, enjoy this list of random links that we feel you may want to check out. Some may involve design, some may involve small business and others may just be something random we find interesting. Keep checking our site each Friday to find out what inspires or interests us. Feel free to email suggestions.
Follow us on Twitter.
Join our Flickr group.
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How to get that wardrobe under control!
Letterpress invitations. Nice.
I know I have my rituals… (Matt)
How to spice up your life on a budget.
Here are some great watercolor sketches.
More free fonts.
And we always blame those bats in the belfry.
Underwater kites collecting energy, sounds a bit Buck Rogers to me.
I have a minor obsession with Josh Ritter lately. (Dave)
Josh Ritter – “Change of Time” (Live, Solo Acoustic) at Fingerprints from Doug Rice on Vimeo.