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Process

Sketchbook Exploration

Sketching is a tool to explore and synthesize in different ways.

Practice
Studio process
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  • Concept sketching
  • Wireframing
  • Observation
Marker rendering of a refillable Band-Aid dispenser concept with callouts for breathability, textures and a carry strap

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Concept ideation

Explore as many ideas as fast as possible

We often use sketching as a way to communicate our ideas earlier on in the iteration process.

Marker rendering of a refillable Band-Aid dispenser concept with callouts for breathability, textures and a carry strap

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Wireframe exploration

Utilizing skeletal frameworks to understand information hierarchy

Hand-drawn website wireframes highlighted in green and pink marker, with blue annotations
Hand-drawn wireframe exploring a page layout and its content blocks
Hand-drawn wireframe mapping the information hierarchy of a website

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Mechanical observation

Observational sketches of mechanical functions and even biomimicry can help extract what and how things work

Whether it's a blade, camera or synthetic hand, we utilize sketching as a tool to process how things work now and could work in the future.

Pencil rendering of a Blick pencil sharpener concept showing its cap, sharpener and waste chamber
Pencil rendering of an Olfa snap-blade utility knife
Line drawing of a small rover with a Raspberry Pi, Arduino, camera, sensors and soft biomimicry-inspired wheels
Pen sketches exploring a lamp: diffuser materials, folded structures and flexible arms with embedded LEDs
Pencil product rendering studying how a mechanism works
Line drawing from a solid modeling study

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Field sketches

Observational sketches to better understand animals

This process helps me better understand interactions, why animals are the way they are, and how they function.

Field sketch of a spiny leaf insect, a hooded praying mantis and ants carrying a wasp
Page from a field sketchbook studying an animal from observation
Field sketchbook page with observational studies of animals
Field sketchbook page exploring how an animal moves
Observational animal sketch from the field sketchbook
Animal study drawn from observation in the field sketchbook
Final page of animal studies from the field sketchbook
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