If Someone Made a Sketch in the Forest and Nobody Saw It…

Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another

Louis I. Kahn

I have to say it: sketches are social things. They are lonely outside the company of other sketches and related reference material. They are lonely if they are discarded as soon as they are done. And they definitely are happiest when everyone in the studio working on the project has spent time with them.

Sure, the act of creating a sketch can help an individual designer work .nrough concepts and refine ideas. And sometimes, that is all that is required. The sketch can be discarded as soon as it is finished. But more often than not, a significant—if not the greater—part of the value comes ...

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