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Most designers well know that it takes a lot of time and energy to be creative. While there are always good ideas out there, the best ideas are the ideas that are allowed to develop. Hence in part why designers find the amount of “work” it takes to be humorous and sometimes depressing. Here is a collection of quotes from some of the most well-known creative people from various creative industries and what conclusions they came to learn about design… hopefully you find some inspiring.
“The opposite of play is not work — it’s depression.” — Stuart Brown
“Leisure is the time for doing something useful.”— Benjamin Franklin
“Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.” — Louis I. Kahn
“I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
“Good design is good business.” — Thomas J. Watson Jr.
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Antoine de Saint Exupéry
“If design isn’t profitable, then it’s art.” — Henrik Fiskar
“Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.” — Milton Glaser
“It’s art if can’t be explained. It’s fashion if no one asks for an explanation. It’s design if it doesn’t need explanation.” — Wouter Stokkel
“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.” — Philip Johnson
“Color does not add a pleasant quality to design – it reinforces it.” — Pierre Bonnard
“Design is a formal response to a strategic question.” — Mariona Lopez
“Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere” — Mieke Gerritzen
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Supposing is good, but finding out is better.” — Mark Twain
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Good designs come from the heart, not from the brain.” — Danny Sengers
“Form follows function.” — Louis Sullivan
“The definition of an expert is someone who knows what not to do.” — Charles Willson
“My secret is being not terrible at a lot of things.” — Moby
“There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.” — Massimo Vignelli
“If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written You a Shorter Letter?” — Marcus T. Cicero
“Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” — Bill Moyers
“You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” — Albert Einstein
“Stop looking at yourself as a designer, and start thinking of yourself as a deliverer of ideas.” — Stle Melvr
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward apperance of things, but their inward signficance.” — Aristotle
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — Leonardo Da Vinci
“Bad design is smoke, while good design is a mirror.” — Juan-Carlos Fernandez
“Content precedes design. Design in the absense of content is not design, it’s decoration.” — Jeffrey Zeldman
“If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.” — Albert Einstein
“Design is the concious effort to impose a meaninful order.” — Victor Papanek
“The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.” — Neil Gaiman
“Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.” — Tate Linden
“The details are not the details. They make the design.” — Charles Eames
“If the users can’t find it, the function’s not there.” — Human Factors International
“People ignore design that ignores people.” — Frank Chimero
“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” — Albert Einstein
“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.” — Walt Disney
“Great stories happen to people who can tell them.” — Ira Glass
“Whenever I have an idea I write it down, even if it’s not a very good idea. Sometimes the bad ideas will lead to better ones.” — Steven Snell
“Form follows function — that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” — Dr. Seuss
“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution isn’t beautiful, I know it is wrong.” — Richard Buckminster Fuller
“Math is easy; design is hard.” — Jeffrey Veen
“Less is more.” — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
“Roses are red, violets are blue. I won’t send the job unless you pay me.” — Giulio Pinotti
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” — Pablo Picasso
“Have no fear of perfection — you’ll never reach it.” — Salvador Dali
“Learning never exhausts the mind.” — Leonardo Da Vinci
I saved one of my favorites for last…
“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” — Thomas Edison
Now get out there and perspire!
Just got this from AIA Technology in Architectural Practice (TAP) community. They are announcing their 2010 BIM Awards call for entries. The submission fee is $300.
If you have a BIM project that excels in any of the following categories, please submit!:
- Category A: Creating Stellar Architecture Using BIM
- Category B: Design/Delivery Process Innovation Using BIM
- Category C: Outstanding Sustainable Design Using BIM
- Category D: Outstanding Design for Fabrication Using BIM
The deadline for entries is 5pm EST, March 29, 2010
2010 Jury
Erleen Hatfield, PE LEED AP – Buro Happold – New York
Stephen Jones – McGraw Hill Construction – New York
Thom Mayne, FAIA – Morphosis – Santa Monica
Stephen Selkowitz – Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – Berkeley
John Tocci – Tocci Group of Companies – Woburn
source- http://www.aia.org/practicing/groups/kc/AIAS074564
Duke Energy Center (formerly Wachovia Corporate Center) is now completed in Charlotte, NC. Personally I think it’s about as close to flattery as you can get to the Shanghai World Financial Center… what do you think?
I prefer the slimmer sleeker profile that the SWFC has, clearly it has a height advantage, but the lines are seem much cleaner. The Duke Energy Center on the other hand appears much more traditional.
If anything this building has shown the sad state of the economy. After Wachovia was bought out by Wells Fargo, they ended up only occupying five of their originally planned 14 floors of the building. Wake Forest originally was going to have a campus in the cultural arts campus as well but pulled out of the project after the buyout.
Nonetheless, I’m glad it was built and completed.
From Autodesk’s website:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=8479974
Check out the full feature list and the new brochure for Revit 2010:
http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/revit_architecture_2010_brochure.pdf
Revit 2010 FAQ:
http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/revit_architecture_2010_faq.pdf
Download the Revit Architecture 2010 Feature Summary
Here’s a quick rundown on features -
- New Features:
- Native 64-bit Support
- Revit Building Maker
- Streamlined User Interface
- New Conceptual Design Tools
- Enhanced Features:
- Design Visualization
- Enhanced Interoperability
- Autodesk 2D and 3D DWF Integration
- Interference Check
- Material Takeoff
- Detailing
- Design Options
- Parametric Components
- Schedules
- Bidirectional Associativity
Detailed Features
Autodesk® Revit® Architecture software helps you gain a competitive advantage with tools that help keep all your design information better coordinated and more accurate.
Autodesk Revit Architecture software offers new easy-to-use conceptual design tools that support your creative flow. Sketch freely, create free-form models easily, and manipulate forms interactively. You can define forms and geometry as real building components for a smooth transition to design development and documentation. As you design, Autodesk Revit Architecture automatically builds a parametric framework around your forms, offering greater levels of control, accuracy, and flexibility. Take your design from concept model all the way to construction documents all in one environment.
Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010 software features a sleek, new user interface that offers better desktop organization, a larger drawing window, and quick access to the tools and commands you need. You’ll be able to find your favorite tools faster, locate lesser-used tools more efficiently, and discover new features more easily.
A change anywhere is a change everywhere. In Autodesk Revit Architecture software, all model information is stored in one place. As a result, any information that gets changed is effectively changed throughout the model.
Schedules are just another view of the Autodesk Revit Architecture model. A change to a schedule view is automatically reflected in every other view. Functionality includes associative split-schedule sections and selectable design elements via schedule views, formulas, and filtering.
Parametric Components, also known as families, are the basis for all building components designed in Autodesk Revit Architecture. They offer an open, graphical system for design thinking and form making as well as an opportunity to express design intent at increasingly detailed levels. Use Parametric Components for the most elaborate assemblies, such as cabinetry and equipment, as well as for the most elementary building parts, such as walls and columns. Best of all, no programming language or coding is required.
Develop and study multiple simultaneous design alternatives to make key design decisions. Present multiple schemes to your clients easily. Substitute each option into the model for visualization, quantification, and other data analysis to better inform decision making.
Take advantage of the extensive detail library and detailing tools that are part of Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010. Presorted to align with the CSI format, detail libraries can be tailored to accommodate your office standards. Create, manage, and share your own detail library.
Calculate detailed material quantities with this new tool. Appropriate for sustainable design and checking material quantities in cost estimates, Material Takeoff facilitates the tracking of material quantities. The parametric change engine helps ensure that your material takeoffs are accurate.
The Revit Building Maker feature provides a seamless way to turn conceptual forms into functional designs. Select faces to generate walls, roofs, floors, and curtain systems. Use tools to extract important information about your building such as surface area or volume per floor. Conceptual forms may be created natively in Autodesk Revit Architecture or imported from applications such as AutoCAD®, form-Z, Rhino, Google SketchUp, or other ACIS- or NURBS-based applications into Autodesk Revit Architecture software as mass objects.
Use interference checking to scan your model for collisions between elements.
Capture design ideas in a photorealistic state. With easy user interaction, high-quality output, and faster render times, the mental ray® rendering engine enables superior design presentation.For more granular control over the rendered scene, use the Autodesk® FBX® file format to import your designs into Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software. You’ll get unmatched flexibility and control over how you visualize and present your work. Learn more about design visualization.
New native 64-bit support enhances Autodesk Revit Architecture’s ability to handle large projects and improves performance and stability for memory-intensive tasks such as rendering, printing, model upgrading, and file importing and exporting.
Interoperability enhancements enable you to work more efficiently with members of your extended project team. Now you can export your building model or site, complete with critical metadata, to AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software. And you can import accurate models from Autodesk® Inventor® 3D mechanical design software.
Autodesk 2D and 3D DWF Integration
Autodesk Revit Architecture software supports complete round-tripping of markups with Autodesk® Design Review software. Because Autodesk Design Review software’s markup capabilities combine with Autodesk Revit Architecture navigation and revision management capabilities, tracking changes is easy. There’s no need to re-enter information. Autodesk Revit Architecture supports publishing a model to 2D or 3D DWF™ format. This capability provides high-impact, dynamic communication of design information in a lightweight format. It’s great for including nontechnical participants in the project review process.
More information from Autodesk on what’s new in Revit Architecture 2010:
Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2010
Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010 software works the way architects and designers think, allowing users to work more naturally, design freely and deliver more efficiently. Purpose-built for building information modeling (BIM), Autodesk Revit Architecture helps designers explore early design concepts and forms, and more accurately maintain their vision through design, documentation and construction. Use the essential BIM data that
Autodesk Revit Architecture provides to support sustainable design, clash detection, construction planning and fabrication. Share the model to work collaboratively with engineers, contractors and owners in an integrated process. And with parametric change technology, any change made is automatically updated throughout the project, keeping design and documentation better coordinated and more reliable.
What’s New
Conceptual Design Enhancements
- New and innovative conceptual design features provide easier-to-use tools for freeform modeling and parametric design, and the ability to support the earliest design analyses.
- Sketch freely, create 3D forms more quickly and manipulate forms interactively.
- Prepare models for fabrication and construction with built-in tools for conception and clarification of complex forms. New tools to divide, pattern and panelize designs make forms more buildable.
- Autodesk Revit Architecture automatically builds a parametric framework around your most complex forms as you continue to design, offering you greater levels of creative control, accuracy and flexibility.
- Users can now take designs from concept model all the way to construction
documents within one intuitive environment and user interface.Improved User Interface
- New streamlined user interface helps users find favorite tools and commands faster, locate lesser-used tools more efficiently and discover new features more easily.
- Customizable Quick Access Toolbar allows one-click access to a user’s favorite and most frequently used tools.
- The ribbon feature is organized around the way designers work, enabling users to find the tools to accomplish tasks without searching all over the user interface.
- Consistent user interfaces between most Autodesk software applications allows users to move between programs more smoothly.Performance and Interoperability
- New native 64-bit support enhances the software’s ability to handle large projects and improve performance and stability for memory-intensive tasks such as rendering, printing, model upgrading and file importing and exporting.
- Expanded API (application programming interface) support.
- Export to AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software and import from Autodesk® Inventor® , while preserving parametric data.
- gbXML (green building XML) improvements allow users to help streamline the
collaboration process with external analysis applications.
Just a couple weeks ago the GBCI announced the final deadline to register for the LEED 2.2 exam.
Now is an excellent time to get this done as the construction industry slows down, there’s a huge opportunity with the new stimulus package that is pending to green government buildings. Whether it’s schools, or infrastructure, health-care, etc. There’s a good chance that these new government projects are going to be green.
Be sure to take the exam now while there are lots of resources for study material out there. Here’s your chance to stand out in the crowd. Here is a previous post with an excellent list of what to study:
< http://designerati.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/leed-nc-22-exam-study-materials/ >
Deadline for LEED NC and LEED CI Exam Registration March 31, 2009
THE GREEN BUILDING CERTIFICATION INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES DEADLINES FOR LEED EXAM REGISTRATION
Deadline for LEED NC and LEED CI Exam Registration March 31, 2009(WASHINGTON – JANUARY 29, 2009) – March 31, 2009 will be the last date that candidates will be able to register for the current LEED for New Construction (NC) v2.2 and LEED for Commercial Interiors (CI) v 2.0 LEED Accredited Professional (LEED AP) credentialing exams. As part of the changes to the accreditation process announced at the end of 2008 the LEED NC designation will be replaced with the LEED Building Design and Construction (BD&C) designation and the LEED CI designation will be replaced by LEED Interior Design and Construction (ID&C). Read the FAQs for more information about these changes. In order to maintain alignment with the new LEED 2009 Ratings System for BD&C and ID&C, new exam registrations will not be accepted by GBCI to take the current LEED CI and LEED NC exams after March 31, 2009 (11:59 PM, Eastern Time). Prometric’s scheduling and rescheduling services for the current LEED NC and LEED CI version 2.0 AP exam registrations will still be available after the March 31, 2009 registration deadline with more specific information to announced later in 2009.
About GBCI
GBCI was created to administer certification and credentialing programs related to green building practice and to ensure that the LEED Accredited Professional (LEED AP) program continues to be developed in accordance with best practices for credentialing programs. To underscore this commitment, GBCI will undergo the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accreditation process for personnel certification agencies complying with International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Standard 17024. Beginning in 2009, GBCI will begin administering the LEED certification process for buildings. For more information, please visit www.GBCI.org
Well I think the time we’ve all been waiting for is finally here… Revit has grown up. With a new UI, robust and easy-to-use conceptual modeling tools, 3ds-max and SketchUp users who’ve been reluctant to change to Revit for schematic design, have no more reason not to. I for one am really excited about the UI change. This has been circling the rumor mill for years and it’s finally here. While some don’t like the ribbon UI, it’s something that after working with for a couple weeks, you’ll notice it’s simpler & easier to use. I think we’ll see some huge productivity gains (hopefully along with stability) with the new Revit Architecture 2010.
In terms of the release date of Revit 2010, I can say with confidence you can expect it in early April based on the last couple years of release dates:
Autodesk Revit Architecture 2009: April 15
Autodesk Revit Architecture 2008: April 5th
Autodesk Revit Building 9: April 12
Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010 Box Shot
To view the product launch webcast: Click here
In the presentation section pull-down select Presentation PT 1.
Advance the slider to the 9 minute mark in the presentation for details specific to Revit Architecture 2010.
NEW User Interface Screenshot:
Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010 offers a streamlined new user interface that optimizes workflow and increases discoverability of new tools.
NEW Conceptual Design Tools Screenshot:
New conceptual design features help you to prepare models for fabrication and construction with builtin tools for dividing, patterning and panelizing complex forms.
NEW Revolve Tool Screenshot:
New conceptual design features allow you to sketch freely, create 3D models quickly, and take your design from concept to construction documentation all in one environment.
2010 Autodesk Revit Platform
The Autodesk Revit platform based products for BIM feature an aligned user interface, giving the entire range of products a consistent look and feel. The updated Autodesk Revit platform also allows a greater level of interoperability for green building analysis, providing support for the green building extensible markup language (gbXML) format. Updates to the products based on the Autodesk Revit platform include:
- Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010 software (BIM for architects and designers) enables customers to more accurately capture early design concepts with improved conceptual design functionality via:
- An intuitive conceptual design workspace to create complex geometry more easily.
- A new user interface (UI) that works the way designers think, providing a smoother and more continuous design workflow.
- Improved interoperability with programs such as AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 software, Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2010 software and Autodesk Inventor 2010 software.
- Autodesk Revit Structure 2010 software (BIM for structural engineers, designers, and drafters) integrates a multi-material physical and an independently editable analytical model, to help provide for more efficient, more accurate documentation, analysis and design. Users will experience:
- Enhanced conceptual design, modeling and analysis to handle more complex architectural forms.
- Improved user interface with a new customizable ribbon toolbar.
- Improved performance and interoperability, including native 64 bit support.
- Autodesk Revit MEP 2010 software (BIM for mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineers) provides customers with optimum tools for system design and building performance analysis helping engineers to make better informed decisions. The 2010 release provides new functionality including:
- Native heating and cooling loads analysis enabling MEP engineers to determine the energy demands of the building.
- Enhanced gbXML export with the ability to examine an analytical model of the project before exporting to a gbXML file.
- Improved performance of the application enabling users to see significant performance enhancements while handling and working on large project files.
View the full press release on the 2010 product lineup here:
http://pressreleases.autodesk.com/index.php?s=press_releases&item=526%3C%2Ftd%3E
Here are some really helpful resources directly from Autodesk:
Google Refreshed Today
Woke up today to a new homepage on Google. As you can see it’s a bit more colorful, buttons are larger, text is larger. No doubt a cleaner and slightly easier to use Google. Other enhancements included sidebar tabbed search results to better switch between results…
There’s also this latest news from Google.
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/01/modern-browsers-for-modern-applications.html
You can kind of see where they got their visual enhancements from… (note: compare the orange “highlighted areas” in bing to the blue highlighted areas in the new google)