Thinking visually
Thinking visually
From the book about Frank Gehry to the book “the back of the napkin”, the concept of thinking visually could help us to see something we haven’t seen before. The concept of design comes from the work around artists and architects, people who use the sketches in the beginning of their work. Personally, I like to make things done step by step, there is always a process for me to deal with everything: I see multi-tasking is a attitude to slow down the work and I couldn’t find any benefit from doing it. However, in the article, the artist mentioned he likes to do all his work together, thinking all the process together and then there is always something unexpected comes up after that and also make all works with harmony. He would also leave a note right by his sketches when there is a difficulty. It just reminds me the fish-bone drawing method used in the business school. We are taught to starts from the problem, drawing a straight line which should ends up with the ideal outcomes and presenting each pleasant or unpleasant outcome by drawing a line out of the main bone. At times, I draw and think. I like to draw a dark circle around the most difficult or important aspect among the whole process and put the paper on my desk, looking at it everyday until there is a solution comes up in my mind. I am not sure if this process could be called “thinking visually”, however, what I know is the drawing process is certainly help me to think, which is seldom happened when I use the computer.