Comments on: In Defense Of The Sketch http://www.thirdnorth.com/evolution/2006/07/27/in-defense-of-the-sketch/ A weblog by Third North Creative - advance, innovate and create Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:44:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Kaleb Durocher http://www.thirdnorth.com/evolution/2006/07/27/in-defense-of-the-sketch/#comment-24991 Tue, 20 May 2008 22:17:49 +0000 http://www.thirdnorth.com/evolution/2006/07/27/in-defense-of-the-sketch/#comment-24991 During a recent exercise in Typography I saw many of my classmates designing directly on the computer. Some of them scoffed at the fact that I was sitting in the corner scribbling away with my archaic pencil stub. How obsolete my design process was! However, by completely immersing myself in the process, I gained an entirely new appreciation and understanding of a typeface, its letter forms, and its ligatures. It wasn't until I sat down and drew the stroke and serif of each letter that I truly understood the underlying structure and how related to each other the characters really were. During a recent exercise in Typography I saw many of my classmates designing directly on the computer. Some of them scoffed at the fact that I was sitting in the corner scribbling away with my archaic pencil stub. How obsolete my design process was!

However, by completely immersing myself in the process, I gained an entirely new appreciation and understanding of a typeface, its letter forms, and its ligatures. It wasn’t until I sat down and drew the stroke and serif of each letter that I truly understood the underlying structure and how related to each other the characters really were.

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