One rule of lean design is that you don't reinvent "wheels." If a component exists, use it. SmartDraw V7 software accommodates this idea with hundreds of already-drawn components that users drag and ...

Shelby Putnam Tupper is founder and creative director of Shelby Designs Inc., a small-but-mighty, full-service, customer-obsessed design consultancy.

It's not a pretty picture. U.S. art students spend so much time toying with computer graphics these days that many wind up without needed drawing skills, university instructors say. Students are more ...

The central premise of Mental Canvas is that the designer draws on individual transparent canvases in an infinite space, which can be combined simultaneously in order to provide a three dimensional ...

This online drawing tool is an application-based Internet approach to generating specifications. The Single Line Drawing Generator (SLDG) was created for electrical design and engineering firms who ...

Formal drawings are a more precise style of drawing. They can be produced by hand or with computer aided design (CAD) packages. Formal hand drawings use tools such as rulers and set squares to ensure ...

US art students spend so much time toying with computer graphics these days that many wind up without needed drawing skills, university instructors say. Students are more comfortable manipulating ...