Drawing in the Design Process : Characterizing Industrial and Educational Practice
- Submitting institution
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Heriot-Watt University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 16500282
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Intellect Books
- ISBN
- 9781783206797
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This sole-authored book is based on a long-term study of over 30 years duration monitoring the changing role of drawing in design due to technological change. It contains a taxonomy of drawing in design, the identification of specific terminology about drawing practices/processes, and the proposition of the ‘Three Environments Model’; the contextualization (historical and recent) of drawing practices in design also positions the books importance and significance in a field with very few other books on the subject.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This book traces the evolution of design-based drawing since the mid-1980s through analysis from a series of research projects involving disciplines including graphics, fashion, textiles and three-dimensional design, and seeks to characterize the changing practices of design within various industries and institutions of higher education. Based on more than three hundred interviews with designers, academics and design students, and an analysis of thousands of drawings, the book is a peer-reviewed research monograph published by Intellect in Bristol, UK, and the University of Chicago Press in the USA (2016). Initiated as a PhD project [Schenk 1985], a rigorous methodology was established, including interviewing respondents at work where their drawings could be subject to analysis. Findings of the investigation were published as a comprehensive Taxonomy of Drawing in Design where a characterization of the use and type of drawing found in the full range of design tasks is categorized into intellectual, practical and technical forms of drawing competence. A unique model of the design process is thereby derived from research that monitored changes in the design process from paper to screen-based working, across the design industry over the crucial first thirty years of the digital era. This book makes three distinct contributions to the field: the taxonomy, the identification of specific terminology about drawing practices/processes, and the ‘Three Environments Model.’ The book is a key reference in the field of drawing and pedagogy, having been cited by, among others, Fava, M., in an article entitled “A decline in drawing ability?”, and Thurlow, L., et al in “Skirting the Sketch: An Analysis of Sketch Inhibition within Contemporary Design Higher Education” both in the International Journal of Art and Design; in Saunders J., “Finding my way through drawing” in the Global Media Journal and in the book Sketching as Design Thinking by Hoffman, A.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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