Architecture Illustration

Those were the days before CAD. Found this housing brochures in my boss’s office, and to my surprise it is not some project dated 20 years ago but 2 years ago. I love these manual technique of presentation and won’t mind taking up this course and be a specialist in the architecture illustration field. I [...]

MADA s.p.a.m 3D perspective

I don’t know much about MADA s.p.a.m and his architecture style, but I really love this 3d perspective. It is very pleasant to the eyes, simple, neat and nice. Am wondering where to get the exact texture and trees found in the perspective above.
The difference between those realistic looking 3d perspective and the perspective above [...]

So You Want To Be An Architect?

So you want to be an architect? Well, alot of people says that their dream is to become an architect, but what kind of architect they want to be? If you’re talking about building a virtual world then I am sure that you know the guy from the matrix movie - The Architect.

I don’t know [...]

Cutaway Technical Illustrations using Adobe Illustrator

I couldn’t imagine myself facing the computer screen for 720 hours using Adobe Illustrator to draw the cut away section above. No, the cut section are not done in 3dmax or any other 3d program. Its all 2D line drawings drawn in Adobe Illustrator. Recalling my year one architecture drawing class, where I am required [...]

Colour Scheme and Printing Guide

Q: What type of file format should I use? Jpeg or Tif?
A: The best file format would be tif, file format like jpeg compress the picture’s color and pixel resolution and this can cause color shifts and blurriness. Unlike the format tif, it preserve the color and sharpness of your pictures by not compressing it, [...]

Sketches From Cambodia, China, and Thailand

I was looking for images of Cambodia and stumble upon this website - Marctaro. After browsing thru all of the sketches by Marc Taro Holmes, only did I realise that he is the art director for games like lord of the rings, Dungeons and Dragons, and Never Winter Nights. I thought he was an architect [...]

Futil Design - Get Bend Chair

Great chair, but I think there are too much surface contact with the ground, which is a bad design. I just couldn’t imagine what would happen to the timber floor stript after using the chair for a month.
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Dilbert Cad Monkey

Dilbert is one of my favorite comic, trailing behind my all time number one favorite comic - calvin and hobbes. I don’t know where and who came up with the phrase cad monkey, but I kind of like it, now according to Urban Dictonary , CAD Monkey are :
1. one who assists a computer aided [...]