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Industrial Designer Spencer Nugent Launches New YouTube Design Sketching Series
Before the era of smartphone video and video sharing sites such as YouTube and Vimeo, one of the more frustrating skills to learn was sketching – and to be more specific – design sketching. As the old...
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Paper’s Think Kit Update Brings Perfect Shapes and Five-Second Venn Diagrams
Unless you’re a professional iPad sketcher – chances are you like to use a little bit of assistance with your (lack of) drawing abilities. For this, it’s hard to deny that Paper by FiftyThree is...
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Rumored iPad Pro with Force Touch Stylus Predicted to Begin Production by...
It’s been a long time coming – and many, many third-party stylus designs have come and gone – but Apple is finally expected to release a 12.9″ iPad model designed for professional creatives under the...
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Moleskine’s New PRO Collection Wants to Bridge Your Creativity and Productivity
When it comes to sketchbooks, most people have a tried and true formula that ranges from specific binding styles and paper types to stacks of whichever recycled paper is available stapled together....
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The ‘Real Markers for Photoshop’ Brush Set Emulates All of Your Alcohol-Based...
Although nothing will ever replace the experience of uncapping a fresh marker and “layin’ down” on top of a ready-to-go sketch, it can still be a time-consuming process that many may not have time for...
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Wacom’s New Bamboo Spark Lets Users Seamlessly Sync Analog Sketches to the Cloud
When it comes to saving sketches digitally, we’ve seen nearly every possible tool or gadget that could possibly be conceived: touchscreen stylus designs that emulate analog pens, sketchbooks that make...
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Spencer Nugent’s Latest Design Sketching Video Teaches You “How to Draw...
It’s no secret that we’re big fans of industrial designer Spencer Nugent around here. The designer, who is well-known for his highly communicative design sketching abilities, is also the founder of ID...
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Industrial Designer Spencer Nugent Gives a Behind the Scenes Tour of His...
Known for his many design sketching videos over the years ranging from basic perspective and rendering techniques to strategies for developing ideas quickly, industrial designer Spencer Nugent has long...
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Learn How to Sketch and Communicate Form Easily Using Contour Lines
While most commonly found in topographic maps to illustrate elevation changes, contour lines can be equally effective for product designers and engineers during the design iteration stage. Among other...
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Scott Robertson Reflects on His Definition of Industrial Design and Where...
Along with Spencer Nugent, industrial designer and concept artists Scott Robertson has a special place at the top of our favorite design process educators list. Long before YouTube allowed educators to...
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La Matita Rossa | Design Students Tackle 21 New Ways to Sharpen Your Pencil
Although simple in functionality, few writing or desk tools have been reimagined quite as much as the humble pencil sharpener. Whether your Prismacolor-sharpening technique consists of microwaving the...
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Morpholio Trace Makes Layered Sketching and Tracing a Breeze on iPad
Before the iPad Pro, truly useful designer-friendly apps for iOS devices were a dime a dozen (arguably, they still are). Along the way, the Morpholio suite of apps proved to reinvent the creative...
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Moleskine’s New Smart Writing Set Just Might Be the Best Analog/Digital...
According to researchers at Princeton University and the University of California at Los Angeles, students who take handwritten notes generally outperform those who type via a computer. Not...
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Kaptivo Makes Your Existing Whiteboard Instantly Smart
Despite the growing number of options for connected note taking and options for sharing analog documents in the Cloud, most team interactions still rely heavily on the mother of all note taking...
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The Hatch Notebook is an Ingenious New Brainstorming Tool for Design...
When it comes to starting a side project (or a “project” project), ironing out early ideas and evaluating them ahead of time – rather than just jumping in – can mean the difference between a hugely...
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Elevate Your Design Sketching with Peter Han’s Dynamic Sketching Bible
The ability to quickly observe a form and deconstruct it into primitive shapes that can be sketched or modeled is one of the most valuable skills that a designer or engineer can have. Unfortunately,...
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These MacBook Renderings Hint at New Apple Pencil Trackpad and OLED Touchpad...
If you’ve been paying attention to the Apple rumor mill as of late, you’ve likely heard that Apple is (supposedly) working on incorporating an OLED touchscreen trackpad to replace the function row of...
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The Pencil+ Writing and Sketching Tool is the Best Thing to Happen to Pencils...
Although a well-designed and balanced pen can be a dream to write with, few writing instruments could ever replace the humble wood pencil. Now, artists, designers, engineers, woodworkers and anybody...
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The Grafton Everyday Carry Pen Takes the Headache Out of Buying Refills
While it’s easy to overlook, having a favorite pen in your pocket to take to meetings or just around the office can be just one more of life’s small pleasures. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to...
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The New Moleskine Café is the Ultimate Design Sketching and Coffee Destination
Used by engineers and designers in nearly every corner of the product design and development industry, the humble Moleskine notebook is often the starting point for hatching the next great product...
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