CS/EE 5710/6710 Syllabus
Digital VLSI Design
Fall 2011
Sketchbook Gallery
Here are some examples of sketchbooks that I've gathered as I've been thinking about this issue of cross-disciplinary design
- Carol Sogard is a graphic design professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Utah. She has produced a book and poster of her students' sketchbooks, and annotated it with her philosophy of sketchbooks. It's a wonderful resource and great example. It's available on-line here.
- Artists sketchbooks - pretty much every artist you've ever heard of keeps (or kept) a sketchbook. I find these fascinating to look at. I like the drawings for their own sake, but I also like seeing a little bit into the mind of the artist and how they developed their visual ideas. On this page I've collected some random pictures of the sketchbooks of artists that I've found on the web.
- I sat next to a CS post-doc named David Harmon from NYU on a flight recently. I was fascinated to see that he was writing in his sketchbook/journal during the flight. He very graciously agreed to send me some pictures from his sketchbook/journal when he got back to NYC. I find these very interesting because they are the journals of a working Computer Science researcher. It goes directly to my point that design sketchbooks are not just for artists! David's journals are a mix of notes, reminders, mathematics, and images.
- Santiago Calatrava is a famous architect (a building architect not a computer architect!) whose designs often include a dynamic or organic-looking aspect to them. On this page are some images from the book: Santiago Calatrava: Secret Sketchbook edited by Mirko Zardini.
- A few selected images from the book Drawing from Life: The Journal as Art by Jennifer New
- A few selected images from the book GRAPHIC: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World's Great Graphic Designers, but Steven Heller and Lita Talarico.
- Some images from the sketchbook of Chief Petty Officer John William Booty, dated 1948-49. These are drawings of submarine mechanical systems. You can see more at the Sea Your History site from the british Royal Navy. The engineering sketchbook is here, but also look at some of the other sketchbooks such as the Tate Sketchbook, Midshipman Sheppard's Journal, and the Radio Mechanic Sketches.
- The journals that were kept on the Lewis and Clark expedition (1904-1906) are full of wonderful little drawings interspersed in the text. In addition to this page with some selected images, you can see all the journals at this Univeristy of Nebraska, Lincoln site.
- Some random images from sketchbooks that I found surfing the web.