most folks couldn't get past worrying about how straight their lines were, getting hung up on the drawing *looking* like an image of an app vs conveying a concept.

I think without the muscle memory from learning that way, analog methods may be mostly lost to time, but it can be incredibly freeing.

as a director kicking off a new website or app feature, I used to try bringing my teams (of younger "ux/ui" designers) into a room with nothing but a box of sharpies and a handful of 11x17 printer paper, to ideate quickly without being overly precious or precise about form.

my dad wasn't a visual artist, but I have so many childhood memories of him grabbing a pen and random scraps of paper to answer my questions about how things work.

multiplication. binary/computer memory. the vacuum tubes in his guitar amp. the rules of american football (these still elude me…)

relatedly. I think an unfortunate impact of digital tools is the reduction of the concept of "drawing" to a mode of art making, instead of a means of visual iterative problem solving.

the (high) fidelity of digital design tools is often counterproductive to exploring new ideas.

this video by my typography teacher shows the type of work our undergrad classes had us doing.

even in the early 2000s, the first 2 years of the graphic design program were all ink, paper, glue and tape. no computers.

the Authenticity part could be describing J Dilla's unquantized style of sampling

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love the 5. not afraid to / when everyone else is |

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I believe the southern hemisphere should see it flipped 🤔

good catch, I actually flipped this so the angle of the roof worked better in a different context