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Morpholio Launches Smart Hatch, Propelling the Trace App into a New Era of Digital Hand Drawing

Christele Harrouk — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 06:30:00 +0000

Morpholio has just released “Smart Hatch”, a new addition featured in its Trace app, famous for sketching and drafting, as well as storing and organizing ideas by layers. Making drawing details, elevations, plans, and sections by hand way easier, Smart Hatch calculates the areas for the user and fills their drawings with the sketch style hatch they desire.

The iPad App That Can Make Your Client Meetings Fast, Efficient and Productive

Sponsored Post — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 04:30:00 +0000

Sketching is the best way to work through design problems. Since no designer is an island, sometimes sketching collaboratively is the best way of working through design problems together. Other times, you sketch a bit, create a proper drawing, and then present to colleagues, clients or stakeholders.

Moleskine Celebrates Creative Process with New Line of Luxury Notebooks

Dima Stouhi — Wed, 09 May 2018 08:00:00 +0000

Moleskine, the go-to brand of sketchbook lovers have expanded their luxury notebook line, The Art Collection. The Italian paper-manufacturing brand and architects' favorite (we know we are!) dedicates this new collection to those who value the creative process just as much as the final result and want to translate their stories and ideas onto papers. Whether it’s drawing, doodling, painting, sketching, or composing, the Art Collection meets the diverse needs of its users who "simply need get lost in their colors and visions without fear of losing the spirit of their work."

Morpholio's "Smart Fill" Extension Calculates Areas In Your Drawings As You Sketch

Niall Patrick Walsh — Tue, 08 May 2018 07:00:00 +0000

Morpholio has released details of Smart Fill, which they describe as “the world’s first area calculator for live design sketching.” Designed for the TracePro app on iPad and iPhone, Smart Fill calculates the area of spaces in active sketches, without the need for further drawing or alterations.

How Architectural Drawing—In All Its Forms—Can Help Us See the World Anew

Jonathan Glancey — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 09:30:00 +0000

What do architectural drawings do? Convey visual information about the design of buildings. This much is certain. They do much else besides. They can be idiomatic and ideological, they can express the personality of those who make them and by whatever means—charcoal, pencil, pen, or computer program. They can inspire, provoke and radicalize. They might be realistic or the stuff of fantasy. Or, of course, they can instruct those charged with building a three-dimensional representation of what they see on paper or, in recent years, on computer screens. Intelligence visible, they can also be art.

The Architecture Drawing Prize Exhibition

Rene Submissions — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 07:00:00 +0000

The Architecture Drawing Prize received 166 entries from 26 different countries, offering a fascinating cross-section of approaches to and uses of architectural drawing today: from highly sophisticated design drawings to lyrical hand-drawn sketches, and everything in between. The exhibition retains a sense of this variety so along with the three category winners, it was decided to showcase the ten entries that received commendations from the judges.

Archisketch Drawing Contest

Rene Submissions — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:30:00 +0000

Open Screen Limited is now accepting submissions for its "Archisketch Drawing Contest", with more than $2,500 in prize monies to be won. The competition is free to enter and it’s open to all existing and potential users of Archisketch. The competition aims to demonstrate the wide variety of work that can be produced using Archisketch on the iPad. If you are not an Archisketch user, you can still participate in the competition by becoming a beta tester. This not only gives you full access to Archisketch and allows you to submit to the "Archisketch Drawing Contest", but it also lets

Drawing Hack: How to Draw A Straight Line

AD Editorial Team — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 08:00:00 +0000

The Modmin has been a go-to for quality videos and tutorials on architectural drawing and sketching. Their newest video tackles a drawing fundamental: the ability to draw a straight line. For many seasoned architects, this is a skill that they mastered long ago. But if you are just starting out, or if you've been hiding behind your computer's ability to consistently draw straight lines, then this hack is for you.

Drawing Event Will Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Tessa Forde — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 08:00:00 +0000

On October 15^th four languages, three countries, and three astounding architectural projects will be brought together through a series of events and workshops to celebrate the 20^th anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation seeks to commemorate the event with a full day program of activities entitled Drawing the Guggenheim. Visitors can explore and sketch the museums during a variety of public drawing exercises, architectural tours, films and family events at each of the Guggenheim locations.

Morpholio's New AR Feature Makes Perspective Sketching Easier—And More Accurate—Than Ever Before

Rory Stott — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:30:00 +0000

With the launch today of Apple's iOS 11—and with it, the release of the company's powerful system for augmented reality apps, ARKit—Morpholio has released a new update to their popular Trace app that allows users to sketch over photographs with perfect accuracy. While it has always been an option to sketch over photographs in Trace, the new "Perspective Finder" tool superimposes a scaled grid over the photograph that helps designers follow the perspective of the image and measure their drawings accurately.

Call for Entries: The 2017 Architecture Drawing Prize

Rene Submissions — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 10:30:00 +0000

Update: the deadline for this competition has been extended to September, 25, 2017 at 23:30 BST.

Make, the Sir John Soane’s Museum and the World Architecture Festival (WAF) have come together to create a prize for architectural drawing. The Prize recognises the continuing importance of hand drawing but also embraces creative use of digitally produced renderings.

The Architecture Drawing Prize welcomes entries from architects, designers and students from around the world while celebrating drawing’s significance as a tool in capturing and communicating ideas.

Decades After the Rise of CAD, Architecture Is Going “Paperless”—For Real This Time

Anna Kenoff, Morpholio — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 09:30:00 +0000

If you visit an architecture office today, you may sense a slight change. The days of bulky desktops, ergonomic mouse pads and tower-high stacks of drawing sets are slowly giving way to digital pencils, tablets, and tons of architects’ hand-drawings—both physical and digital. Architects across the globe are clearing their desks, literally, and utilizing emerging touchscreen tools and software for designing, sharing and collaborating. It seems possible that, for the first time in years, the architecture profession could revisit Bernard Tschumi’s “paperless” studio which formed a key part of his tenure as dean of Columbia University’s GSAPP in the mid-1990s. However, this time, “paperless” starts with a pencil, instead of a click.

Gifted Sketcher Uses His Moleskine and Camera to Capture Real and Imagined Cityscapes

Becky Quintal — Mon, 29 May 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Moleskine notebooks, sketching, architecture photography, imagination, and Instagram—these are all curiosities that arouse the interest of a stereotypical architecture lover. So it's hard to believe that Pietro Cataudella, author of the CityLiveSketch project, is neither a trained artist or architect, but a student of geophysics.

Draw Perfectly At Any Scale With This Augmented Reality App

Rory Stott — Wed, 24 May 2017 16:00:00 +0000

The ability to draw well is one of the most coveted skills in architecture. Unfortunately for those without an innate gift for sketching, it's also one of the most difficult to learn—even if it can, contrary to popular opinion, be learned with commitment and practice. But for those poor souls without such talents, there is now a fix: an app called SketchAR.

Sketching Tutorials to Keep You Filling up Your Moleskine

Niall Patrick Walsh — Mon, 01 May 2017 08:00:00 +0000

In an increasingly paperless world, architecture still relies on channeling ideas by hand. Sketching has endured as the method of choice for designers to communicate with clients, the public, and each other. As we have previously reported, the George Architect YouTube channel, managed by Reza Asgaripour and Avdieienko Heorhii, is devoted to bringing sketching techniques and ideas to the wider world, with a series of tutorials on everything from light and shade to three-point perspectives.

7 Moon Hoon Sketches that Have Actually Been Built

Fernanda Castro — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 07:00:00 +0000

Seoul-based architect Moon Hoon describes his style and attitude towards design as “putting architecture to the edge of art” and having as much fun as possible in the process.

These Beautiful Architectural Sketches Show Hand-Drawing is Alive and Well

Patrick Lynch — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 16:15:00 +0000

Despite the rush of new technologies available to architects to express their designs, the humble art of hand-drawing is still alive and well. And when sketching are drafting are done well enough, they can become their own artifacts for inspiring architectural thought.

The Importance of Human Scale When Sketching

Eduardo Souza — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 08:00:00 +0000

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. (Le Corbusier)