{"id":796,"date":"2015-09-01T21:56:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T19:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/escapelab.net\/?p=796"},"modified":"2015-09-01T22:04:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T20:04:39","slug":"why-sketchbooks-still-rule-in-a-digital-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"Why Sketchbooks Still Rule in a Digital World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#666666;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.1000003814697px;\"><em>&ldquo;You forgot your sketchbook? What&rsquo;s that? Some&nbsp;kind of laptop?&rdquo;<\/em><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI was in a full panic.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-font-smoothing: auto; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7em; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);\">\n\tI got to the hotel when&nbsp;realized I left my sketchbook in the cab. I was freaking out. I called the cab company and explained, with a mounting sense of urgency, what happened.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#666666;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.1000003814697px;\">&ldquo;No, it&rsquo;s a notebook with good paper. I sketch in it. You know, with a pen.&rdquo;<\/span><\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#666666;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.1000003814697px;\">&ldquo;Why don&rsquo;t you just use an iPad?&rdquo;<\/span><\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#666666;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.1000003814697px;\">&ldquo;But I like to draw. I like the feel of the paper and it never runs out of batteries&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#666666;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.1000003814697px;\">&ldquo;Whatever. I&rsquo;ve got a great sketching app on my iPad. Plus like a thousand games. And I can read the newspaper. And check my email&#8230;&rdquo;<\/span><\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-font-smoothing: auto; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7em; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);\">\n\tHe spent the next couple of minutes listing all the things he does with his iPad. Knowing I wasn&rsquo;t going to convince this guy of the merits of sketching,&nbsp;I clenched my teeth and patiently listened until finally, he told me they found it.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-font-smoothing: auto; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7em; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#666666;\"><em>&ldquo;Yeah, buddy, we&rsquo;ve got your book. You sure you want this thing? It looks pretty nasty. It&rsquo;s probably not worth much anymore.&rdquo;<\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-font-smoothing: auto; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7em; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);\">\n\tI&rsquo;d been carrying around this sketchbook for a while&nbsp;and it had only a couple of blank pages left. This meant two things: one, it was in fact looking pretty nasty looking and two, it was chock full of my ideas, notes and sketches from the last few months. It wouldn&rsquo;t be worth much of anyone else, but to me, it was priceless.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-font-smoothing: auto; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7em; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);\">\n\t<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22.1000003814697px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);\">In his articles for&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archsmarter.com\/\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(2, 108, 182); text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\">ArchSmarter<\/a>, Michael Kilkelly comes across as something of a technophile: some of his favorite topics include Revit macros, coding, Excel, automation and&#8230; Moleskine? In this article, originally published on ArchSmarter as &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/archsmarter.com\/why-i-still-use-a-sketchbook\/\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(2, 108, 182); text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\">Why I Still Use a Sketchbook<\/a>,&quot; Kilkelly explains why despite all the technology, sketchbooks remain one of the most important tools at his disposal.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-font-smoothing: auto; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7em; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);\">\n\t<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 900; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Why I Still Use a Sketchbook<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-font-smoothing: auto; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7em; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);\">\n\tDespite my love of digital technology, there are&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#666666;\"><span style=\"font-size:12px;\">for the full article click the link below..<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#666666;\"><b>source:<\/b><\/span><font color=\"#003366\"><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/font><b><a href=\"http:\/\/archsmarter.com\/why-i-still-use-a-sketchbook\/\"><span style=\"color:#333366;\">http:\/\/archsmarter.com\/why-i-still-use-a-sketchbook\/<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;You forgot your sketchbook? What&rsquo;s that? Some&nbsp;kind of laptop?&rdquo; I was in a full panic. 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