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Aug 19th 2008 10:42AM
Free your ideas through sketching
By: Allison Bucchere
Filed under: aesthetics, beautiful things, inspiration, strategy
Our interactive design team came together for several hours of inspiration and sketching over the past couple days. It was great to get our NY and VA offices together via video to take a big picture break. Several designers led the inspiration discussions (which I'll blog about later this week) and our UI Directors led our sketching exercise. They planned an interactive group exercise for us, freeing our ideas by eliminating the limitations of the computer while focusing on broad strokes without the noise and clutter of details.

Our exercise reminded me of this Core77 video of a design director at Converse sketching a summer sneaker concept in under five minutes -- it's pretty cool:



Core77 also recently launched this interesting sketching site. Check it out for more inspiration on varied techniques and conversations. How does sketching improve your creative process? What tools do you swear by?



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