Part 1: Learning About Sustainable Design with Dawn Danby. A series of new videos recently released by Autodesk is meant to help place environmental thinking right at the forefront of any design process.
The goal for the videos: Suggest to engineers and designers that they think about the environmental impact of any design at the very beginning, including the brainstorming stage, so that the green thinking can have the most impact. Autodesk’s programs have become essential tools of the trade for engineers, architects, and designers, and the company wanted to use their products’ ubiquity to help change the way engineers approach designing.
The short videos star their creators, Dawn Danby, the Sustainable Design Program Manager for Autodesk, and her collaborator Jeremy Faludi, while they chat in straightforward terms about environmental ideas and a scientist character (“Mr. Imagination”) in a white lab coat quickly sketches out diagrams explaining the talk behind the speaker. How exactly would you define your role there? Presentation Tools. Sketchnotes 101: The Basics of Visual Note-taking. Welcome to the second article in the the new Core77 "Sketchnotes Channel" (www.core77.com/sketchnotes) where we'll be exploring the application of visual thinking tools in the worlds of design and creative thinking.
So you say you're ready to start sketchnoting. Maybe you're not much of a sketcher but you take a lot of notes, and are interested in making them more meaningful and interesting, but you're afraid your drawings are too crude. For you, it's important to stress that sketchnotes—although they are inherently a visual medium—do not require drawing ability of any kind.