Drawings have long been the visual thinking tools of designers in all of the professional disciplines including the arts and crafts. This paper reflects a current research interest of the authors in which students from particular discipline backgrounds (in this case industrial design) visualise their ideas in the design process. As a perceptual motor skill, practically everyone can make drawings as marks on paper, or on a computer screen or in many other media, in an informal and meaningful way. For example, Figure 1 shows sketches made by kindergarten children when asked by a design student to make a drawing of a cat. In their innocent minds they have pictured that a cat has three whiskers on each side of its face along with other common perceptions of its features.

Drawings and the development of creativity and form language in product design education

Viewpoints: Mathematical Perspective and Fractal Geometry in Art, by Marc Frantz and Annalisa Crannell, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2011, 232 pp., US $45.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-...

Viewpoints: Mathematical Perspective and Fractal Geometry in Art, by Marc Frantz and Annalisa Crannell

Part I: One point, two point and three-point perspective with objects inclined to the ground plane (from the worm's-eye to the bird's-eye point of view) * Part II: Developing the basic principles into a set of valuable creative tools, using step-by-step processes.

Robert W. Gill

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Perspective: From Basic to Creative