Although I saw a great many terrific things at the ETC; portfolios, Shadyside, the space and projects, I was there to lecture. If I have the schedule correctly, the ETC invites a prominent speaker to visit each week and address the students on Wednesday afternoons. The sessions are scheduled for two hours including Q&A. In [...]
I know, I know, the last word anyone would expect me to type might very possibly be ‘Microsoft.’ I am clearly a Mac fan-boy. I had a hard time adjusting to the idea of cool stuff and Microsoft while at the ETC. And there was this great guy, a CMU alum and Microsoft Exec visiting [...]
Last week I had the privilege and pleasure of visiting the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University. I spoke to the graduate students about my design philosophy and process, I reviewed portfolios and saw project demonstrations. I met some amazing students and faculty. So, I thought I would share, this will be the first [...]
At the root of what we do is storytelling. Whether we are working on a dramatic film or theatrical piece or a trade show booth, museum exhibit, themed interior, news set or architainment, our set design must be part of advancing a story. Based on a script, story, program or creative brief, we conceive and [...]
For a long time we have had a section on the main site for downloads. The intent has always been to post some of our standard Vectorworks files like Default Stationery and Default Textures. Never got around to that. Until today. Nothing is ever perfect, especially files that need to continually evolve. So we hope [...]
Cliff Kuang has an interesting post up at Fast Company on personality traits of designers. The Myers-Briggs personality test was taken by 65 designers, and skipping over the charts and graphs – you can see them if you click on the above link – here are the findings, as described by Kuang: According to the [...]
This post is based on a currently ongoing discussion on the Vectorworks Theatre Discussion e-Mailing List. I’m going to put most everything ‘below the fold’ here as if you’re not a Vectorworks user, the rest of the post might as well be written in an Alien language. Tweet
Last night was the first meeting of the New Jersey Vectorworks Users group at the offices of Andrew Fethes Architects in Oradell, NJ (of course?!?!), a small NYC-like outpost in suburbia. Andrew and his associate Lisa Collins offered a great space and all the amenities for our gathering. One constant theme of the evening was [...]
In my initial post on color: Why Are You Afraid of Color? I touched on how I began to learn about color. Since we’re all faced with color choices almost everyday, I thought it might be helpful for those of us who are not professionally trained, to look at, and build on the basics, so [...]
MILTON GLASER DRAWS & LECTURES from C. Coy on Vimeo. When I teach, I require a sketchbook. Doesn’t matter what I am teaching. I require my students to build the habit of drawing daily. Milton Glaser articulates the reasons why quite clearly in this video which I discovered via Jack Nack of Adobe Systems. As [...]