ASID Icon - January/February 2009 - (Page 33) CONTRAST/ to clients to pitch her design, Aston says, “I usually carry pens and paper with me to meetings and pull them out to work out details on the spot or to demonstrate why something doesn’t work.” Designer Jeff Hart agrees: “CAD is a great tool, but for the quick, impromptu illustrations in front of the client, [hand sketching] is invaluable,” he says. New technology and tools like the Wacom Cintiq¨ (left) make the transistion from paper to computer much easier. It gives designers the ability to sketch and brainstorm directly onto the screen. An interior design educator for more than 30 years and a STEP (Self Testing Exercises for Pre-Professionals) leader since 1984, Cheryl Myers, Ph.D., FASID, insists that “you have to decide what sketching is.” Myers believes that sketching can be done on computers as well as by hand and says the argument that hand sketching is essential when on the job site or at an informal client meeting is losing its validity as more and more designers have laptops at the ready. When a CIDA team recently requested that Myers’ students do more sketching, Myers checked the class computers and found that students had sketches and renderings available on their pasteboards that they weren’t printing. “Sketching is communicating an idea in black and white,” she says. Whether sketching by hand or drawing electronically, Myers says, “It’s a way of thinking. I don’t think one is better than the other.” i ju taform S PA C E A R T I C U L AT O R S ® Juxtaform, LLC / 888 589-8236 / www.juxtaform.com www.asid.org january/february/09 icon 33 http://www.juxtaform.com http://www.asid.org
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